What Are You Reading? 2021
04-08-21, 06:47 PM
#128
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04-11-21, 08:32 AM
#130
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Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
The Big Kill by Mickey Spillane. More action and violence, well-paced, and now with slight character development. The plot is confused. Sociological note: By 1951, Mike Hammer is probably having casual sex, compared to I, The Jury in 1947 where Mike wants to marry the beautiful woman.
Dinosaur Beach by Keith Laumer. Hardboiled timecop deals with pretty much every trope in the time-travel genre. It's my favorite time-travel novel. I stayed up until midnight to finish it, although I've read it before.
Dinosaur Beach by Keith Laumer. Hardboiled timecop deals with pretty much every trope in the time-travel genre. It's my favorite time-travel novel. I stayed up until midnight to finish it, although I've read it before.
04-18-21, 11:44 AM
#135
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Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
Finished:
Starting:
Starting:
04-21-21, 01:40 PM
#139
Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
That sounds like a hefty and ambitious reading mission!
Despite all the fantasy I've read (and all of the times I've seen these books on store shelves), somehow I've never read any Wheel of Time. Now that it's completed, is the consensus that it was worth it in the end? Or did it stray too much in Jordan's later books (and couldn't be saved by Sanderson)?
Despite all the fantasy I've read (and all of the times I've seen these books on store shelves), somehow I've never read any Wheel of Time. Now that it's completed, is the consensus that it was worth it in the end? Or did it stray too much in Jordan's later books (and couldn't be saved by Sanderson)?
04-21-21, 01:53 PM
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04-22-21, 07:04 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
That sounds like a hefty and ambitious reading mission!
Despite all the fantasy I've read (and all of the times I've seen these books on store shelves), somehow I've never read any Wheel of Time. Now that it's completed, is the consensus that it was worth it in the end? Or did it stray too much in Jordan's later books (and couldn't be saved by Sanderson)?
Despite all the fantasy I've read (and all of the times I've seen these books on store shelves), somehow I've never read any Wheel of Time. Now that it's completed, is the consensus that it was worth it in the end? Or did it stray too much in Jordan's later books (and couldn't be saved by Sanderson)?
04-23-21, 06:50 PM
#143
Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
Finished a couple:
I really liked this, although it was very bleak. I know there have been numerous "alternative" takes on Peter Pan in different media, some even making him the villain (like Christina Henry's Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook which I read a couple of years ago and greatly enjoyed). I liked that this made him morally ambiguous, while still technically the "hero". This was the first thing I read of Brom ... he hasn't written much (he's more of an artist), but some of his other books look interesting.
This was a bit of a disappointment. Last year I read the 4 "Murderbot" novellas and thought they were a lot of fun. This is a novel that feels like it has a novellas worth of story ... just stretched out badly. And the narration style of the main character (constantly going off on tangents) made this challenging for me to maintain interest in. But this has a 4.4/5 on goodreads and has been nominated for a Nebula award, so I feel like an outlier for not loving this.
I really liked this, although it was very bleak. I know there have been numerous "alternative" takes on Peter Pan in different media, some even making him the villain (like Christina Henry's Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook which I read a couple of years ago and greatly enjoyed). I liked that this made him morally ambiguous, while still technically the "hero". This was the first thing I read of Brom ... he hasn't written much (he's more of an artist), but some of his other books look interesting.
This was a bit of a disappointment. Last year I read the 4 "Murderbot" novellas and thought they were a lot of fun. This is a novel that feels like it has a novellas worth of story ... just stretched out badly. And the narration style of the main character (constantly going off on tangents) made this challenging for me to maintain interest in. But this has a 4.4/5 on goodreads and has been nominated for a Nebula award, so I feel like an outlier for not loving this.
04-24-21, 08:57 PM
#144
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Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
This keeps wanting to load sideways for no reason I can figure out, so fuck it. Got this in today, and will be starting it soon.
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04-25-21, 09:13 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It's on my phone and I read it a few pages at a time when I'm in waiting rooms. After half a year, I sat down and finished it.
It's on my phone and I read it a few pages at a time when I'm in waiting rooms. After half a year, I sat down and finished it.
04-26-21, 08:40 AM
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I had read this back in the late 1980s and it freaked me out. Doing a re-read before the Netflix doc series.
Just started:
I had read this back in the late 1980s and it freaked me out. Doing a re-read before the Netflix doc series.
04-28-21, 08:29 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading? 2021
Finished:
I really, really liked this one.
Just starting:
I really, really liked this one.
Just starting: