Currently re-reading the Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey. Just finished Book 1 (Wool) and getting into Book 2 (Shift). Although I enjoy the TV adaptation the books are (IMHO) better, crack along at a decent pace and of course Shift starts to give some deep background into the whole thing. Got to feel sorry for poor old Donald!
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This book about Stalingrad is good. Lots of interviews with soldiers and civilians, rather than the grand strategy.
Voices from Stalingrad: First-hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle eBook : Bastable, Jonathan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Voices from Stalingrad: First-hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle eBook : Bastable, Jonathan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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I finished 10th Annual SF by Judith Merril last night.
More SciFi short stories, this was stories published in 1963/4.
Mostly good, with a good variety of styles.
More SciFi short stories, this was stories published in 1963/4.
Mostly good, with a good variety of styles.
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Just finished this trilogy and very much enjoyed it, although I managed to read 2 and 3 in the wrong order. Didn't think it impacted the story too much.
Moved on to Peter Watts' Echopraxia. I enjoyed Blindsight so thought I'd try the next one. These are classed as "hard science fiction", what this means for me is that I don't quite know what he's talking about when describing things! Not sure if I'll finish it.
"After death" by Dean Koontz. Guy gets infected with nanobots and becomes The Singularity so can interface with all online systems and find out any information stored digitally anywhere. Decided to help a woman and her son because of the love of a dead friend.
What a premise. Horribly underused though. Indeed the entire end sequence just feels like a low budget Netflix home invasion thriller, with a Deus ex machina ending.
So much pointless waffle too. Really disappointing. Failed to really explore any of the themes that cry out from that premise.
On to "Blood and salt" by Hubert L. Mullins. Vampires on the Titanic. That's got my attention.
What a premise. Horribly underused though. Indeed the entire end sequence just feels like a low budget Netflix home invasion thriller, with a Deus ex machina ending.
So much pointless waffle too. Really disappointing. Failed to really explore any of the themes that cry out from that premise.
On to "Blood and salt" by Hubert L. Mullins. Vampires on the Titanic. That's got my attention.
After the three Paul O'Grady autobiography books, which I thought were quite well-written, interesting, and funny, I've just read Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea', which I didn't really get. Given that it won a Pulitzer prize, and I think he won a Nobel prize for literature, I was expecting something better 
Just started The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, which I'm sure will be a barrel of laughs
Just started The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, which I'm sure will be a barrel of laughs
I'm closing in on finishing Will, Will Smith's autobiography, I guess mainly for the memories. I realise I watched and loved a lot of his stuff in the 90's, but I'm finding it an interesting and enjoyable read (well, listen...)
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After the three Paul O'Grady autobiography books, which I thought were quite well-written, interesting, and funny, I've just read Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea', which I didn't really get. Given that it won a Pulitzer prize, and I think he won a Nobel prize for literature, I was expecting something better
Just started The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, which I'm sure will be a barrel of laughs
Ah, The Old Man... is a good read. I've found the way to treat great literature is to enjoy the story, rather than trying to appreciate it as art.
Just enjoy it for what it is.
The story was okay, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. Still, at least it was short
Just finished Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton. Mal short for Malware is a free AI accidently caught up in a war between augmented and puritanical non-augmented monkeys (humans to you and me) and his struggle to get back to infospace hitching rides in not always polite hosts. Very funny satire on war, AI and relationships.
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Just finished Get Shorty.
One of the rare times I think the film is better than the book.
Moving on to Freaky Deaky
One of the rare times I think the film is better than the book.
Moving on to Freaky Deaky
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I thought Out of Sight was also a better movie than book.
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I've just finished Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarris.
They're weirdly raunchy, but actually good progression fantasy mainly around school, magic, and dragons.
I really enjoyed them, but now I'm back on to The Price of Power and its follow up by Michael Michel (hilarious name). His other books were good too - looking forward to getting stuck into these.
They're weirdly raunchy, but actually good progression fantasy mainly around school, magic, and dragons.
I really enjoyed them, but now I'm back on to The Price of Power and its follow up by Michael Michel (hilarious name). His other books were good too - looking forward to getting stuck into these.
Have broken off from the Silo series to start reading Brandon Sanderson's Skyward series. Picked up Book 1 (Skyward) in the library on Monday and so good have nearly finished it. I enjoyed where Sando took the final WoT books and very pleased with the story so far.
Highlight got to be the wit and wisdom of M-Bot and with 90 pages to go questioning if there will be a huge twist and
Highlight got to be the wit and wisdom of M-Bot and with 90 pages to go questioning if there will be a huge twist and
The Krell are not actually the bad guys, the humans running the planet are.