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The Silo series by Hugh Howey -- some excellent sci-fi to go along with the show The Red Rising series by Pierce Brown -- lots of sci-fi fun, extremely epic The Dark Tower series by Stephen King -- King's "Lord of the Rings" opus, great writing, ending maybe a little unsatisfying but not abnormal Artemis - Andy Weir's first book -- Fun read about a heist on the moon. Anticipating Project Hail Mary movie early next ye…
Wasn’t ‘The Martian’ Andy’s first book?
I read the entirety of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. I've been meaning to since I heard about it in college over a decade ago. With a new baby here and some extended parental leave, I ploughed through all 8000 pages or so and it was so, so worth it.
You'll be pleased to know that there's another 20 or so books in the same universe, both by Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont. Not all of them are as good as the Book of the Fallen, but most of them are pretty close, and some are even better.
Just finished For Blood and Money - Nathan Vardi. Enjoyed the real world characters who drove the developments of cancer research forward and the messy business of pharma. I enjoyed Ra - more than "There is not anti-mimetics division" which I felt lost itself in the second half. I greatly enjoyed Anathem - though I have always been a sucker for Stephenson. I found 2666 to be profound and tragic. Obviously the intenti…
I cannot find your book There is not anti-mimetics division... Are you sure it exists?
Read: Thomas Mann’s Glass Bead game. Needed some patience to get through. Benjamin Labatut/ When we cease to understand the world. (Fictionalized accounts of some scientists) Bird/Sherwin: American Prometheus Started but abandoned midway: Stanlislaw Lem’s : His Master’s Voice Thomas Mann’s: Magic Mountain. About reading habit: I find it useful to make it a point to read in bed at least 30 mins before sleeping.
If you want to try more Herman Hesse I preferred Demian & Siddharta far over Glass Bead game (read in German though, can't speak for translations).
I read the entirety of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. I've been meaning to since I heard about it in college over a decade ago. With a new baby here and some extended parental leave, I ploughed through all 8000 pages or so and it was so, so worth it.
You'll be pleased to know that there's another 20 or so books in the same universe, both by Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont. Not all of them are as good as the Book of the Fallen, but most of them are pretty close, and some are even better.
I've listened to Project Hail Mary, even though the story is not that much complex and is predictable at times, the audiobook experience is the best I've had, I have been looking at similar audiobooks but couldn't find any
My introduction to Andy Weir was The Egg https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html -- which I consider to be a classic.
This year: - I read the entire “Frog & Toad” collection. Probably about 30 times, some stories more. - “Little Shrew’s Day”… probably 25 times. - Many of the “Construction Site” series books, especially the OG “Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site”. The “Garbage Crew” and “Airport” books featured heavily. - Started to mix in some “Pete the Cat” titles. - “Detective Dog Nell” got a lot of air play. Lots of others,…
# Catch-22 (by Joseph Heller) - had been seeing it mentioned on HN (and other sites) for years, I finally read it and it was one the best novels I've ever read. # The Universe and Dr. Einstein (by Lincoln Barnett) - recommended for anyone who is interested about Einstein's thought process that gave birth to two great theories. # What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (by Haruki Murakami) - it's my first book fro…
Murakami’s fiction novels are extremely different from “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. If you want to try another non-fiction book of his check-out “Underground : The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche”, I loved it. If you go the fiction route “Kafka on the Shore” and “A Wild Sheep Chase” are a good starting point. Avoid some of his longer works unless you enjoy his style.
# Catch-22 (by Joseph Heller) - had been seeing it mentioned on HN (and other sites) for years, I finally read it and it was one the best novels I've ever read. # The Universe and Dr. Einstein (by Lincoln Barnett) - recommended for anyone who is interested about Einstein's thought process that gave birth to two great theories. # What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (by Haruki Murakami) - it's my first book fro…
Its funny, I've tried with Catch-22 a few times. I just can't get on with it. I think that its all just one ginormous side note, and that Yossarian is a shit, means I can't enjoy it. I also suspect that I am not american enough to pick up on the satire references. I suspect I feel what americans feel when they read jeeves and wooster.
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Its funny, I've tried with Catch-22 a few times. I just can't get on with it. I think that its all just one ginormous side note, and that Yossarian is a shit, means I can't enjoy it. I also suspect that I am not american enough to pick up on the satire references. I suspect I feel what americans feel when they read jeeves and wooster.
Looked up for "jeeves and wooster", so, you're British then. This makes this little conversation interesting for me, because I'm not American, not even European and so our exposure/approach to this novel is very different then, I guess. Even the language was a little over my head, since English is not my native tongue. However, I really enjoyed it. I liked Heller's style (prose?) and wit. About Yossarian...yes, he's…
correct!
>English is not my native tongue.
Aha, interesting
I think the thing that trips me up is that it feels like a collection of unrelated short stories mashed together. Worse (for me) is that those stories contradict each other.