What are you reading now?
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I mostly enjoyed the Netflix adaptation, but it did seem a bit contrived in places. Perhaps shoe-horned is a better term. I got through about ⅓ of the Chinese version - interesting, but slower than Aqua's sister to give a refund.
So, I thought I'd re-read the book. I don't remember much from my first read, so, having seen both adaptations, it might be worth it.
Enjoying it MUCH more the second time around.
@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Enjoying it MUCH more the second time around.
Finished it this morning. A great tale, but...
Like other "Trilogies" it ends on a cliffhanger, or perhaps on an unresolved note. The story ends with a "Now what?" note. I wish authors would just tell the story, and merge into the next tale, without leaving a ton of stuff on the table.
Of course, "Dark Forest" is next in the queue.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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has anyone read this?
Started it a couple of years ago. Gave up.
Too weird, even for me.
In a far-future, Dr. Avrana Kern is the head of a science team that has terraformed an uninhabitable planet then deliberately released a genetically designed virus to speed the evolution of monkeys. Their plan goes wrong when the monkeys' ship burns up upon entry, leaving the virus to infect a variety of creatures, eventually settling on spiders (Portia labiata). Meanwhile, the last human remnants of a dying Earth are en route to the promised paradise planet unaware of the uplifted spiders. The work plays off the contrast between the rapid advancement of the spiders and the barbaric descent of the starship crew of the last humans
Spiders.
Space spiders...
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New Erik Larson just released.
Civil war stuff.
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@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Enjoying it MUCH more the second time around.
Finished it this morning. A great tale, but...
Like other "Trilogies" it ends on a cliffhanger, or perhaps on an unresolved note. The story ends with a "Now what?" note. I wish authors would just tell the story, and merge into the next tale, without leaving a ton of stuff on the table.
Of course, "Dark Forest" is next in the queue.
@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Of course, "Dark Forest" is next in the queue.
A much better book than "Three Body Problem." Mostly new characters. The story has a resolution which, though not satisfying in an emotional sense, gives the story a reasonable end. However, the door is open for another episode.
I might just dive into #3 for the sake of continuity and remembering plot lines.
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OK, once I started, I had to finish.
Started the final book yesterday.
The story, and the narration keep getting better. Though the first book was intriguing, the second one really fleshed out the story. I can't wait to see where this one finally takes us.
Only 592 pages, LOL.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385544764Couldn’t rely get into the new Larsen book so I ditched and went to what is for me always a good staple, maritime stories. This just released about cooks third and final voyage, I thoroughly enjoyed a previous book on HMS endeavor which was cooks vessel for his first voyage. So this looks to me just what I need now.
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OK, once I started, I had to finish.
Started the final book yesterday.
The story, and the narration keep getting better. Though the first book was intriguing, the second one really fleshed out the story. I can't wait to see where this one finally takes us.
Only 592 pages, LOL.
@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Finished it.
wipes brow
Actually a bit of a disappointment. So much extraneous stuff that added little to the story, and was shoehorned into a "Chekhov's pistol" type of setting.
This was good, hard sci-fi that devolved into speculative stuff about multiple, alternate universes. Unexplained FTL travel, and no real resolution.
Such great premises that could have been fleshed out a lot better.
It'll probably continue to be a good TV series, until it gets weird (as the third book did).
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I have way too many of this sort of book discussing how to improve your jazz, most of which remain unread. This one is actually quite good.
Probably a fairly limited audience for it here at least...
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rereading the karla trilogy by le carre
(TTSS, honorable school boy, smileys people)
ive been though them before but i simply cannot get enough of le carre as a spy writer. IMHO, no one comes close to his mastery in the genre. simply superb and a pleasure to read.
the soviet-west cold war, seems to be so very much alive, 60 years down the road, even though 60 years is about 2-3 generations afterwards.
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@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Never read any of his stuff...let's see how it goes.
My dad loves 'em because they take place in DC.
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@jon-nyc said in What are you reading now?:
Have not read that book, but strangly, I was just reading a article about that book. I guess that there is some controversy in that the arthur edited his "diary" after the fact. Some of his original diary entries were very favorable to Adolf Hitler, etc.
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It’s excellent. Living the reich in ‘real time’ through his diary, but also getting a glimpse of what the life of a foreign correspondent in the 30s and 49s was like. Remember he was one of the original ‘Morrow’s boys”.
I re-read Rise and Fall about every ten years. It’s excellent.
Last year I read his The Collapse of the Third Repubic. I loved it but you kind of have to be into French history not just the war.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
