The first book in the Expanse series was excellent! I've started the second. So far it tops the TV series by a lot.
- Leviathan Awakes
- Caliban's War
- There are many more...
Awesome! I'm going to see if my library has an audiobook of it. I'm bored with my normal podcasts and spend a lot of time walking around and listening half-heartedly.The first book in the Expanse series was excellent! I've started the second. So far it tops the TV series by a lot.
- Leviathan Awakes
- Caliban's War
- There are many more...
No. At least for the first two. So far in book 2, the whole basis for the events are tied to book 1 and some of the characters have carried over.Awesome! I'm going to see if my library has an audiobook of it. I'm bored with my normal podcasts and spend a lot of time walking around and listening half-heartedly.
Do you think they can be read out of order?
Awesome! I'm going to see if my library has an audiobook of it. I'm bored with my normal podcasts and spend a lot of time walking around and listening half-heartedly.
Do you think they can be read out of order?
I'd say the series really has to be read in order. The first four books are pretty self-contained as stories, so it's probably doable, but there are too many characters and relationships and events carrying between novels for it to make proper sense. Corey is an author who isn't afraid to let his big, explosion-y climaxes have genuine consequences for his setting.No. At least for the first two. So far in book 2, the whole basis for the events are tied to book 1 and some of the characters have carried over.
James S A Corey is actually two people both of whom have worked for GRRM: Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck; they live in Albuquerque.I'd say the series really has to be read in order. The first four books are pretty self-contained as stories, so it's probably doable, but there are too many characters and relationships and events carrying between novels for it to make proper sense. Corey is an author who isn't afraid to let his big, explosion-y climaxes have genuine consequences for his setting.
This sounds really interesting. You love it? Got any examples of the video game nonsense?Awaken Online: Catharsis by Travis Bagwell
This book is my unicorn that I've been chasing for a couple years now. The protagonist is a necromancer. The downside is that it's in a video game world. The upside is that it's a 'true VR' (read and write to your brain) game which is also run by a true artificial intelligence. So really it's highly promising and conceptually everything I could want. It's just that the writing can sometimes get bogged down in too much video game nonsense that really isn't necessary and reads terribly. But that's a minor issue on the whole.
@EgonSpengler I never finished the LOTR series and to be honest I'm glad of it. One of the very few cases where the movies are better than the books. There was another example I've seen but unfortunately I lost it in my train of thought.
This sounds really interesting. You love it? Got any examples of the video game nonsense?
Question:
Do any of you binge read? - I seem to go through a cycle where I will get bored of reading halfway through a book, not pick a book up for months and then i'll read half a dozen in a month, before the cycle repeats.
It might be something to do with an obsessive personality (I tend to focus on one thing for a period then change focus to something else).
I am reading the diaboliad, by bulgacov![]()
What's the Higgs Boson book called?I am reading a book about the Higgs Boson. Not trying to really understand the thing at a mathematical level but at a recreative level since the book is pretty basic.
I have tried with a serious book like Road to Reality by Roger Penrose but my head begins to spin like the girl in The Exorcist. Would need several years full time to digest such monster of a book.