What book are you reading, ιf' - Iff you read books

[Smellincoffee]

I tried CJ Box last week and now I've read two of his novels and am starting the third.

Make that book #20.

 

[EnglishEdward]

I have in the last few weeks completed reading four books.

The first two books I bought new off, and had them signed by, their authors
at the Sci-Fi weekender convention in Great Yarmouth in March this year.

Talman Prime

by Jenny Green

about a lady who travelled in a giant space ship to a supposedly uninhabited world which was
actually inhabited by a race of underground shape changers who impersonated the crew.


Few Are Chosen

by MT McGuire

about an alternative hero employed as a getaway driver, and wanted by the evil occupying lord.


Echo of Worlds

by M R Carey

about a destructive war between organics and machine intelligences that ranged across thousands of alternative earths.


How To Stop Time

by Matt Haig

about the problems experienced by a man who aged at 1/15 the normal rate.


All four books were very enjoyable.

 

[thetrooper]

Reading lately a lot of the Norwegian anarco-nihilist Jens Bjørneboe;

Jonas
Blåmann
Haiene
Uten en tråd
Under en hårdere himmel
Den onde hyrde

No, by no means do I concur with his political views or agenda. Nevertheless, these are important post war (WW2) opinions on conformism in general.

 

[Kyriakos]

Reading lately a lot of the Norwegian anarco-nihilist Jens Bjørneboe;

Jonas
Blåmann
Haiene
Uten en tråd
Under en hårdere himmel
Den onde hyrde

No, by no means do I concur with his political views or agenda. Nevertheless, these are important post war (WW2) opinions on conformism in general.

For balancing purposes, next go on an Ibsen binge

 

[thetrooper]

Peer Gynt for sure. Maybe also Et dukkehjem and Gengangere. But binge? No way

 

[thetrooper]

Hamsun, on the other hand, is perfect for binging.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hamsun, on the other hand, is perfect for binging.

Iirc I read Hunger when I was 17 or 18. Re-read it a few years ago. But apart from that, and The Blessing of the Soil (or how the title is translated) I haven't read anything else by him - can you suggest something?

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

I read the two Forrest Gump novels. Enjoyable, not what I would call a classic.

 

[thetrooper]

Iirc I read Hunger when I was 17 or 18. Re-read it a few years ago. But apart from that, and The Blessing of the Soil (or how the title is translated) I haven't read anything else by him - can you suggest something?

Hunger, Dreamers, Mysteries and Pan for a start.

I think you are referring to Growth of the Soil. Not my favorite but it was however rewarded with a Nobel prize in Literature.

 

[Josu]

Ended The armour of light, by Ken Follet
No review, it's just more from Ken Follet

Started Genesis by Bernard Becket

 

[Josu]

Ended Genesis by Bernard Becket
Although it is a short book there are some tedious parts, they are not too much, but they are there. otherwise it would be 5 star book because the story is creative and original and it has a superb plot twist at the end. It has many clues that anticipate the twist, but I did not see comming

Started Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

[Josu]

Ended A libertarian walks into a bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

The book is written in humorous way, it is OK, but the author claims that whe will prove that the bear issue in Grafton is related with the libertarians and they fight against taxes. He does not prove nothing. I am ideologically far from liberarians, in the book there are many examples on how absurd they can be, but there is no a single prove that the bear attacks were due to libertarian's policies

Started Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

 

[Birdjaguar]

Reading Who Am I. Pete Townshend's autobiography. Surprisingly good and well written. Like most successful people, the backstory about how they got to the top is far more interesting and complicated than is generally known. He is a complicated man. The 'birth" of "Tommy" is the next chapter.

 

[jaegermeister]

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. More I read his work, more I want to see him as a French leader in Civ7.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Ended A libertarian walks into a bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

The book is written in humorous way, it is OK, but the author claims that whe will prove that the bear issue in Grafton is related with the libertarians and they fight against taxes. He does not prove nothing. I am ideologically far from liberarians, in the book there are many examples on how absurd they can be, but there is no a single prove that the bear attacks were due to libertarian's policies

Started Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Jacobsen has quite a few interesting books, including a history of Area 51.


Just finished listening to an audiobook called Baseball when the Grass was Real, a collection of oral history/memories from ballplayers of the late 1920s to the 1940s. No huge names, though the men interviewed did tell stories about some superstars. Ernest Hemingway makes a surprise appearance: he liked ball players and invited a few to his house, where they got wicked drunk and Hemingway challenged one of them to a multi-round boxing match, followed by a formal duel.

 

[EnglishEdward]

I have just finished a sort of Sci-Fi book titled

The Lost Art

by

Simon Morden

copyright 2007

which has an interesting plot but rather inflexible characters.

The Lost Art

A MILLENNIUM AFTER the formidable war machines of the U…

www.goodreads.com

 

[JollyRoger]

 

[EnglishEdward]

Earlier this week I finished reading:

Johnny and the Bomb

by the late Terry Pratchett

copyright 1996

that I bought locally second hand.

It is what they would call, now, a young adult's style science-fiction comedy
about a group of eccentric teenagers who encounter a Mrs Tachyon trolley
lady, and are then traversing the Trouser of Time between 1941 and 1996.

It was very enjoyable and much lightened my mood.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I recently finished reading Red Metal, a 2018 military/technical thriller in which Russia disables European and NATO communications via hacking, executes a surgical strike against AFRICOM in Stuttgart, and then attempts to seize a mine in Kenya with lots of rare-earth minerals. Although modern military/technical thrillers aren't my thing (pretty sure the last one I read was Patriot Games 20 years ago), I enjoyed it for the characters and the chaotic action. The author, Mark Greaney, was joined by a vet named Ripley Rawlings, so I tried his standalone novel, Assault by Fire. Assault by Fire is....dumb. Witness this riveting dialogue:

"This is it?” said Major Quico, careful to keep his voice low so Kolikoff
wouldn’t hear him. “It just looks like Russia . . . I mean, where are the
discos and the girls?”
“They are not here at the airport, you idiot,” said Major Pavel.
“But where is the Statue of Liberty?” asked Major Drugov.
“Idiot!” said Pavel. “That is in Boston.”

 

[Ordnael]

The author seems to have a vein for prophecies!