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Post by daphodil on May 17, 2022 20:45:09 GMT
I read the first Killing Eve book and it was soooo good. binged it. Order the other two right away. I had a hard time getting into the show but *chef's kiss* to the book(s).
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Post by greysfang on May 22, 2022 18:47:03 GMT
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. It’s a post apocalyptic series written by a black woman that I was recommended because it’s closer to our current situation than The Handmaids Tale. So far I’m loving it and just ordered the second volume not even halfway in.
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Post by sputnik on May 23, 2022 12:39:44 GMT
^^^^
i don't read a lot of sci-fi and don't know a lot of authors but butler and ursula k. le guin are two that have been recommended to me for years, i need to get round to reading them.
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Post by greysfang on May 23, 2022 14:50:58 GMT
Parable of the Sower is absolutely frightening right now. She wrote it in the late 80s and its almost a blueprint of what is going on in the world right now. It even has a charismatic president whose tagline is Make America Great Again.
I know it is in the sci-fi genre, but it really isn't a sci-fi novel. There's no magic or supernatural characters or technology that we don't have yet. Its all very real and happening right now.
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Post by sputnik on May 23, 2022 16:10:06 GMT
i've really enjoyed the little sci-fi i've read i just don't really know the genre so it's hard to know what to read. i'm definitely going to check that out though, thanks!
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Post by waterslide on May 25, 2022 2:53:28 GMT
That's the way I am about sci-fi, comics, and anime/manga. I take quick detours into those genres and then I get lost, but I read some Le Guin in college and some Philip K. Dick. I am very curious about the Octavia Butler book, though. I have always thought Handmaid's Tale was a horror novel dressed up like social commentary, and it is, but it's really failing in a lot of areas...well, maybe that's just the TV show that won't die.
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Post by daphodil on Jul 3, 2022 15:58:03 GMT
I just finished Where the Crawdads Sing and am probably one of the few who didn't like it. By the time they got to the big reveal I: 1) didn't care and 2) wasn't surprised. I found it long and more and more unbelievable.
ETA: Removed comment about Verity by Colleen Hoover as that deserves its own post. Or not. I've got about 20% to go to finish.
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Post by waterslide on Jul 4, 2022 6:07:30 GMT
I want to know about the Verity book. I just googled it and it looks interesting. I don't think I've read that author before and miss spooky stories like that.
I have been reading Parable of the Sower and thank you @greysfang for mentioning it because a) it's almost psychic in its accuracy and b) the writing is so beautiful and insightful. I'm still reading though. I'm slow these days. So far I wish Earthseed was a real religion. I had gotten the Audible version along with the Kindle version and Lynne Thigpen reads it and her voice is really nice and soothing.
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Post by sputnik on Jul 4, 2022 16:24:21 GMT
“Normal people” by sally Rooney. Started it a while ago and got distracted before I really got into it but this time I devoured it in two sittings. Pretty great, the characters really get under your skin in a way that makes you genuinely concerned for them. Funny, biting, well written, heartbreaking in parts. I’m kind of sad they’re making it into a tv show and probably giving it the streaming giant treatment
“A visit from the goon squad”, Jennifer Egan. Another one I’m reading years after the hype. Pretty amazing though, so we’ll written and observant and that last chapter freaked me the fuck out because you know that’s where we’re headed as a culture/civilization
Now reading a Swiss novel, “dix petites anarchistes” (ten little anarchists) by Daniel de Roulet about a group of young women from a watchmaking village in the Jura, heavily influenced by the teachings of Bakunin who was really influential in Switzerland in the late 19th c, who leave their traditional lives behind to move to South America with their children to live collectively. It’s a novel but heavily influenced by real life events and it’s pretty fucking amazing so far.
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Post by daphodil on Jul 4, 2022 17:38:26 GMT
I want to know about the Verity book. I just googled it and it looks interesting. I don't think I've read that author before and miss spooky stories like that. Overall, it was good. Lots of seggs scenes, lots. Several twists that I didn't see coming, but I got the sense that she left it a little open for a sequel. I binged it in one day because I had to find out what happened. |
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Post by circe on Jul 16, 2022 19:20:26 GMT
The Human Stain
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Post by waterslide on Jul 22, 2022 18:27:21 GMT
I finished Parable of the Sower and I loooved it. The only thing that upset me was that the book ended and I wanted more. The good part of that is that my Kindle edition starts with a sample of the next book in the series which I think is free with Kindle Unlimited so I can keep going. But I'm saving it. I mentioned that I got the Audible version in addition to the Kindle book, and Lynne Thigpen does an amazing job and I definitely recommend that audiobook, but I found that I liked reading it without the narration because it felt more personal to me. My ADHD kicks in when I listen to books, so maybe that's part of it.
I started Where the Crawdads Sing because everyone everywhere I go has been talking about it and I felt like it was haunting me AND I was able to borrow it for free from Overdrive which shocked me because I usually have to put books that aren't even new or popular on hold for so long that I end up being too bored to read it by the time my turn for the book shows up. Anyway, I'm only 20% of the way through and it's one of those books you really can get lost in with descriptions. The capturing of the dialect kind of reminds me of this 1933 book I read about an impoverished white family in pre-Civil War Georgia called Lamb in his Bosom by Caroline Miller. I personally haven't met many people who have heard of, much less read, that book, but it did win a Pulitzer Prize, apparently. Anyway, I am enjoying WTCS so far.
Next, I want to poke my head into Persuasion because it's on my mind and it's been it's been a minute since I've last read it.
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Post by kittylady on Jul 24, 2022 1:13:00 GMT
Has anyone ever read any of the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead? Bloke found a second hand book sale for charity at a place he was working and thought "That looks like Fang Porn. Kitty should like that..."
I've already got a big stack of books that I need to start working through and if this is going to be a crap or infuriating series I'd rather know now so I can shove it to the bottom of the pile and then quietly donate it when I'm next having a clear out.
(I do appreciate him thinking of me and I'm happy that he's smart enough not to try and get me any of that Twishite nonsense but if I'm not going to read it I'd rather it went to someone who would enjoy it).
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Post by charmedhour on Aug 18, 2022 15:19:28 GMT
I want to know about the Verity book. I just googled it and it looks interesting. I don't think I've read that author before and miss spooky stories like that. Overall, it was good. Lots of seggs scenes, lots. Several twists that I didn't see coming, but I got the sense that she left it a little open for a sequel. I binged it in one day because I had to find out what happened. I enjoyed Verity but something about it underwhelmed me- possibly all the hype that surrounds it. I kept reading comments along the lines of "best book I have read in a long time." |
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Post by daphodil on Aug 18, 2022 20:58:06 GMT
I kept reading comments along the lines of "best book I have read in a long time." I did not like Where the Crawdads Sing *at all* - I saw similar comments for that book too. Always makes me ask, "wtf have you been reading?" |
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