At the moment I'm reading a Discworld City-Watch book called Snuff. It's quite good. Before that I re-read Kim (always amazing) and a book of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin (so-so).
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At the moment I'm reading a Discworld City-Watch book called Snuff. It's quite good. Before that I re-read Kim (always amazing) and a book of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin (so-so).
i love terry pratchett's stories, but his writing is not very polished. still fun to read.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Just revisited Good Omens this week...one of my favorites (if you don’t take it too seriously).Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
does anyone take terry pratchett seriously?Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...erry-pratchettQuote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
I was late finally getting to him, but I've liked the city-watch books I've read. Really fun tone.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
Listened to a few things lately -- some of them from recommendations here. Liked The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Kind of odd story, but entertaining. Loved The Lies of Loch Lamora. That's a well done book.
Tried one I hadn't heard of before. It looked interesting at B&N. It was called A Big Ship at the End of the Universe. It's book one of three. I will not be reading the others. The two lead characters are both extremely annoying for most of the book (whiny, petulant, totally self-absorbed). They do seem to get a miraculous makeover toward the end. The book is an odd mix of magic and SF. To me, it just points out why I don't like magic stories for the most part--it's too easy to just fix any problem that's been set up. Either the great new magic fixes it or some other thing miraculously makes the great new magic not work. The book also has a lot of "why the heck would you do that?" moments. Overall just not very good IMHO.
Started a book by Shusaku Endo, but I think I'm going to return it to the library for another day. I like his work, I own two of his books and I read another that I think I prefer to those even, but this one starts off just too sad for me to put up with right now. I'm sure the loss sets up the rest of the story, but I'm not waiting around. Maybe another day.
The books I own by him are pretty interesting, one is Silence, which was made into a movie fairly recently by Martin Scorsese and the other is called The Samurai and is about a 17th century diplomatic mission from Japan to Mexico and Europe.
Recently finished an interesting fantasy/horror story that imagines the Klan as literal otherworldly demons called Ring Shout. I thought it was pretty good.
Finally working on Authority to wrap up that Southern Reach triology, and I have a historical fiction thing from the point of view of St. Augustine's ex on deck.
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S. C. Gwynne
Thanks I’ve been looking for something on this. I’ve always been fascinated by the stories surrounding Quanna Parker. I’m now listening to a series about the early days of the Texas Rangers who played a major role in ridding Texas of the ComancheQuote:
Originally Posted by ITdrummer
One of my good friends told me about this one, but had forgotten about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ITdrummer
It's a fantastic book.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
This weekend I grabbed some books off the shelf that have bookmarks somewhere in the middle. Some of those bookmarks have been in there for a really long time. We'll see if we can knock a couple out and add them to the "completed" list.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Best of luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Based on recommendation here, I read Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane. That's a very good book. Thought it was a creative direction and liked the perspective he told the story from. Also finally decided to try Terry Pratchet. Listened to Unseen Academicals. He is pretty funny at times, and the story was good if a bit narrow in scope (it's basically about a soccer game, though that's a gross oversimplification).
Also read The Humans by Matt Haig. SF comedy about an Oxford mathematician who makes a major breakthrough that's years ahead of schedule (at least, based on other civilizations). The other civilizations send an assassin to eliminate him and squelch the breakthrough because they don't think humans are ready. However, the assassin finds humanity attractive and has a hard time completing his mission. Some nice twists.
One thing I notice about a lot of Brit SF/Fantasy authors though. They often seem like they are trying to channel Douglas Adams.