#1211

:open_mouth: No way! That so cool. Can’t wait to dig into this one.

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#1212

Yeah, all his exes in the previous book, Reamde, were collectively known as the Furies, and at the start of this book he connects the Furies to the Norns.

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#1213

Underworld

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#1215

Reading Octavia E Butler again for the first time in 20+ years. I don’t think I was ready for her when I first read her work in my early 20s – I wanted my scifi to be either trippier or spaceship-ier.

This book is filled with grace and beauty and insight and sadness and prescience.

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#1216

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Oh, and the executor of the main character’s will has the nickname Crow.

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#1217

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#1218

this is a great read:

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#1219

Just finished this one, and I’ll give yet another recommendation to read it on this thread. I found Roads grounded his ideas frequently in human experience, and that aspect helped define and back up his theories and thoughts extremely well.

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#1220

Just recently finished Nocilla Dream and Experience - I enjoyed Dream best, perhaps due to be grounded by the tree.

I gave up on Lab after about five pages. The single sentence was terribly contrived. It didn’t feel like one proper sentence, it was simply punctuated that way.

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#1221

just reread Watchmen for the first time as an adult. It was so so good. Hungry for more Alan Moore and not necessarily feeling the comic vibe I picked to Jerusalem which is an ambitious choice for returning to novels… 1200 pages… Pretty engrossed so far but will this hold for the two months it’ll take me to finish it?

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#1223

Haven’t gotten to it yet, but a friend my mine wrote this one and it’s supposed to be fantastic. Just came out this spring.

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#1224

Just finished Educated by Tara Westover, about a survivalist Mormon family from Utah, written from the perspective of one of the daughters (Tara) who went on to do some really amazing things. It’s been a while since I’ve read a book I couldn’t put down.

#1225

Am about half way through Gibson’s “Idoru”, and am going to move on to my first Stanislaw Lem book after that. Anyone have a favorite?

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#1226

I’m reading what I’ve long regarded as my deathbed book, Barnaby Rudge. Years ago, when it was, for me, the last of Dickens’s novels, I decided to save it. I’ve refrained from reading anything about it.

Nearly every sentence has me smiling. Dickens milks the English language for all the humanity it can elicit under his thumbs.

Am I nearing death? Don’t think so. I just decided to end abstinence and enjoy.

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#1227

There’s a cover blurb where Neil Gaiman says it was his favorite SF book of the decade. I can’t agree. There was definitely some inventive stuff with the spaceships and some of the tech and some of the… let’s call them invented genotypes rather than “races” of people – but overall it just felt like it was trying really hard to be clever and different and edgy and I’d really much rather read Iain M. Banks.

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#1228

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The Peripheral. Very hard to read at first as you’re just thrown in the events without any context. But then, along with the plot, very interesting bits of vision - present trajectories and future ideas - emerge from the building blocks of the story, and from details mentioned in passing. The first time I tried to read it, I gave up, didn’t have the patience. Now I’m enjoying it in small pieces as the writing is condensed and, at first, fragmented. Worth a read I think, and for myself also a re-read sometime in the future.

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#1229

Looks good, thanks for the heads up. The biography is deep on detail but the book you mention looks more specific to my interests. I always liked the Beats which is what drew me to Burroughs in the first place. Cheers.

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#1230

IMO The Peripheral is his most revolutionary book since Neuromancer, and suffers from the same difficulty of being thrown into a very different world without any explanation. That’s also what I love about both of those books, they expose you to a new place as if it is normal, and you have to put it all together as you read.

I can’t wait to see where he takes this next.

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#1231

That sounds like I might actually enjoy it. I really enjoyed the Sprawl trilogy, the Bridge trilogy a bit less, and really wasn’t into the Blue Ant stuff.