Finally getting back into reading and man is there such a huge drop off between Annihilation and Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
I didn’t think it was possible for a story to go to go from being that interesting to being that boring in the space of one book
I’ve decided to read all the Pulitzer prize winners for fiction.
I have about 30 done, with only The Shipping News being super boring.
I finished The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, I enjoyed the different way of writing a Whodunit, basically the main character wakes up 8 times as a different person invited to a English manor house for a party, and lives through the same day from that new person’s point of view, trying to solve a murder. He can talk to prior/future hosts, plot, etc.
It was fun and different, but the end wasn’t very satisfying. May be a hit for Quantum Leap fans.
Also finished The Code Book about code making and breaking, which was terrific.
The Martian–>Artemis
Also lol the author of Annihilation said the film adaptation of I’m Thinking of Ending Things was hard to understand lolllllllllllllllllllllll
Just got through reading Educated by Tara Westover (it was excellent), so now I’m taking a stab at reading a bunch of Great Books that I’ve never read before.
I started with The Great Gatsby. It is…not very good. Or at least incredibly overrated.
Can’t agree with this.
I’ve enjoyed Gatsby, but I greatly preferred Tender Is The Night. He is Fitzgerald, so I’d say give him a second chance.
I will say that a lot of my dislike for it could just be my current mindset. I really wasn’t up for reading about Gilded Age snobbery, and it probably coloured my reading experience.
It’s quite scathing about that, despite the Fitzgeralds being central to the scene themselves.
Long time since I read them but I preferred Tender is the Night as well. For anyone who likes that one then Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier is massively recommended, same milieu and subject matter and a really great novel.
Been reading RIP GOP from pollster Stan Greenberg. Has tons of the sort of demographic data and analysis I I love.
His overall point: the Tragic Death of the GOP is coming. Who woulda thunk?
Meh. Book is better than that. Btw, was 2.99 on kindle, so people can see for themselves.
Yea I posted it without comment for that reason, I might pick it up, haven’t read anything recently
I thought they were both pretty great, although oddly I haven’t gotten around to the third book yet.
And if anyone doesn’t know, the kindle app for phones is pretty much as good as a dedicated kindle reader.
I read this a long time ago and have to agree it’s really an amazing book! I’ve read a couple more from Simon Singh and his other books are also quite good, although not as good as the code book is!
Seconded. Found it also extremely overrated.
Can’t say I agree…no e-ink, small screen, uncomfortable to hold, distracting apps. A nice supplement, but not a replacement, imo.
I used my Kindle for a few years, but now I’m back to paper books 4 lyfe!
Yea I saw it was 2.99 and I’m a kindle guy so I picked it up. I’m 100 pages in, most of the early part I already knew basically that the gop position is getting less and less popular on all social issues, immigration etc as the years go.
Now I’m on the section about the last decade and if anything what fucked this country was not trump but the rise of the tea party and 2010 wave election. It’s sickening reading about the destruction of state budgets by people like Scott walker, what brownback did in Kansas etc. tax cuts so we have to cut education spending, rinse and repeat
Disgusting
