What Are You Reading? (October 2014)
10-01-14, 09:45 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading ?(September 2014)
Just Finished:
The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer
I really like this series. Nice read for the fall/Halloween season.
Just Started:
The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend
The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer
I really like this series. Nice read for the fall/Halloween season.
Just Started:
The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend
10-02-14, 01:05 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading ?(September 2014)
Just starting the multi-award winning "Ancillary Justice" by Ann Leckie - which I think a few others may have mentioned in earlier threads, as I've certainly seen it referenced somewhere online that I've visited.
10-07-14, 03:24 PM
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10-07-14, 05:29 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (October 2014)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
I haven't read it since I was a kid, and I didn't understand it then.
The book was definitely written by a teenage girl. Everyone is so pretty, and the people are so nice, and everyone loves each other so much that they have rainbows coming out of their asses . . . except for the experiment and the monster, which are icky.
But I hadn't realized what an immature and selfish person Frankenstein was, or that the monster was his physical, intellectual, and moral superior.
I haven't read it since I was a kid, and I didn't understand it then.
The book was definitely written by a teenage girl. Everyone is so pretty, and the people are so nice, and everyone loves each other so much that they have rainbows coming out of their asses . . . except for the experiment and the monster, which are icky.
But I hadn't realized what an immature and selfish person Frankenstein was, or that the monster was his physical, intellectual, and moral superior.
10-10-14, 04:05 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (October 2014)
In the meantime, I just started:
10-11-14, 03:43 PM
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10-12-14, 01:39 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (October 2014)
Finished:
Having really enjoyed Vinge's other novels, I was rather surprised at how much of a slog this was to read (especially since it was a Hugo winner for best novel). The technology was unrealistic (it's only set 11 years from now) and the "technobabble" was nearly incomprehensible to me (and I've tons of jargon-heavy sci-fi over the years).
I have his last novel, The Children of the Sky, ready but now I'm hesitant.
Having really enjoyed Vinge's other novels, I was rather surprised at how much of a slog this was to read (especially since it was a Hugo winner for best novel). The technology was unrealistic (it's only set 11 years from now) and the "technobabble" was nearly incomprehensible to me (and I've tons of jargon-heavy sci-fi over the years).
I have his last novel, The Children of the Sky, ready but now I'm hesitant.
10-13-14, 02:51 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (October 2014)
Finished up the last one, liked it as much as the others. It looks like there is one more after this, so hopefully Martin will have his second to last book out by the time I finish A Dance with Dragons.
