Oooh, I just finished this too! I don’t go into sci-fi too often, but sometimes I get a real urge and this totally scratched that itch. Loved the evolution narrative.
I have the sequel as well, I think. Not sure if I’m gonna dive in right away though.
He also cowrote the script for my all time favorite movie.
The End Of The Affair, The Heart Of The Matter and Brighton Rock imo are even better.
Never mind, I’m giving up, just absolutely hating trying to parse through this argle bargle.
Greene wrote 500 words every morning and then went out and did whatever he felt like for the rest of the day and then read what he wrote that day before going to bed. Traveling the world as he did it. Sick life.
If GRRM would write 500 words a day he’d finish his books one every four years. Bastard. Writes like a third of a Greene per day.
I think I only read The Heart of the Matter and A Burnt Out Case but they were both good.
I was about to point out how that phrase is from Cat’s Cradle, but apparently it’s from Slaughterhouse Five (Lolme). Vonnegut has been my favorite author since I read CC in a freshman lit class.
The sequel is p good too
Crushed my way through catch and kill. Ronan Farrow is a Beast and Laurier/Weinstein are awful. Unreal these corporate fucks at NBC tried so hard to quash it and then cover it up later. Need women running all these fucking companies.
This doesnt really count because I havent gotten it yet, but internet megaawesomeperson Lindsay Ellis’ first novel, Axiom’s End, just debuted at #7 on the NYT hardcover fiction list, which is pretty incredible for any first time published author.
Halfway through War and Peace. Working hard!
I’m halfway through this, it’s not bad. Plot driven and no real surprises so far. Don’t quite see the love yet but have some hope.
Trying to hurry through The Thirteenth Tale (which is unfair because 20% through it’s interesting and well-written) to get to Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Recently finished his The Water Dancer.
Finished Axiom’s End, the rare(?) novel that never references its title any way shape or form, and yeah its good but not Hugo good. Good 1st act, very very good 2nd act, somewhat let down of a 3rd act/ending and some kind of weird alien sex implication stuff/head stroking? IDK. Final thoughts are don’t write this sort of thing without SOME sort of epilogue right? Tell us what you think, don’t “let the reader surmise my deep amazing thoughts” nonsense. Ugh.
How are you liking Thirteenth Tale?
Ty for reviewing this. I know people reading it, but they’re all publishing people. Nice to get a reaction outside the box.
lol how long did it take to read for something that was just pretty ok?
Just finished it, and really liked it, and I don’t normally go for gothic stories. I really enjoyed the writing.
I liked the opposite. The evolution narrative was predictable in the big picture kind of way so I could guess where it was headed but was unique enough that I didn’t feel tempted to skim, the devolution part interested me because it really captured the disorientation of what I imagine being woken up repeatedly from cyrostatis every couple of hundred years and I had no idea where it was headed
