The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
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The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.
Which version are you reading?
I just read Ender’s Game for the first time…wow! It’s a pretty well known book so I won’t give a review, just say that I enjoyed it. I connected with it like I haven’t connected with a novel in a while. And besides, the political and military angles to it were just fascinating .
You might not have guessed, but I’m a big fan of [Ender’s Game]. 😉
As am I.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
I’m reading “Leia - Princess of Alderaan”. Halfway through and it’s only been a day, great stuff!
The Stand by Stephen King. Wow, this is long.
Quite a lot of Stephen King books are a slog to get through. Strange 11.22.63 wasn’t because I read it after I watched the mini-series. Made me wish the mini-series had 4 extra episodes.
Stephen King’s IT. (Page 142 of 1041. Holy shit, how was I able to read this 20 years ago?)
It is excellent and reads faster than most books that are a third of Its size.
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I’m a bit of a fanboy, so I bought it immediately. Digging it.
I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
EDIT: In fact, I was just thinking it was time for an avatar change. I’ll go with him.
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I just read Ender’s Game for the first time…wow! It’s a pretty well known book so I won’t give a review, just say that I enjoyed it. I connected with it like I haven’t connected with a novel in a while. And besides, the political and military angles to it were just fascinating .
You might not have guessed, but I’m a big fan of [Ender’s Game]. 😉
As am I.
I’m with you too. I like Speaker For The Dead too. After that I felt it got too “whacked out”, but I haven’t read them in a while. I read speaker a couple years ago and still love it but didn’t feel like getting a huge headache so I didn’t continue on to xenocide.
I’m also a Neil DeGrasse Tyson fan. You guys should check out his Hot Ones interview on youtube. Eats super hot wings and talks his stuff at the same time.
Here’s a link: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Universe While Eating Spicy Wings
I took a break from this . . .
. . . to read this . . .
. . . but before getting through that, I couldn’t stop myself from picking up this . . .
. . . so I’m sort of a mess at the moment, as far as reading goes. I feel like I ought to give Shirley Jackson priority in the run-up to Halloween, but I don’t want to let Flashman sit for too long, so I’ll probably read them in tandem. Given the nature of FaCPoV, I don’t feel too bad walking away from it for a while, but I’d like to have it at least mostly finished by the time Canto Bight comes out.
I have been listening to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno. I’m on chapter 16 (of 30) at present, and thus far I’m…not really a fan. It has its references to forthcoming events in the prequels, but in general it’s slow and rather boring. And it mentions midichlorians more times than can be ignored.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
I find Luceno to be a dry writer overall. Although I loved Catalyst and thought Tarkin wasn’t bad, they have their slow parts, especially Tarkin (seriously, the whole first chapter is Tarkin designing the Imperial officer’s uniform).
I don’t pop in here much because I just don’t seem to find the time to read anymore, but I’ve been reading The Disaster Artist and it’s so good.
I have been listening to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno. I’m on chapter 16 (of 30) at present, and thus far I’m…not really a fan. It has its references to forthcoming events in the prequels, but in general it’s slow and rather boring. And it mentions midichlorians more times than can be ignored.
Are you listening to an audiobook, or is someone reading it aloud to you in person?
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Still Stephen King’s IT. Page 391 of 1041.
Still Stephen King’s IT. Page 391 of 1041.
Shoulda bought the whole book. 😉
Finished Ready Player One for the podcast “book club” 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (from a couple of the RiffTrax guys). Holy shit, that book is the absolute worst. Badly written, poorly plotted, the main character has no redeeming qualities and spends 371 pages bragging about how much stuff he has memorized. The “exciting” parts of the book are people playing arcade games inside a VR game or actually just quoting the entirety of Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
It can’t even be interpreted as a deconstruction of nostalgia culture, or a morality tale about how pop culture shouldn’t be your obsession. There’s literally half a paragraph where someone says “I realized on my death bed that there’s more to life than video games”, then the book just stops. The kid is rewarded for memorizing more movies and being better at old arcade games than anyone else. Even when he teams up with other people for the final battle, the only help they give is exposing a glitch to allow him to win. Nothing about friendship being magic, the quest was never supposed to teach them a lesson. It’s just non-stop references and people bragging about getting the references.
Judging by the trailer, Spielberg seems to have scrapped the entire plot, so maybe the movie will have some redeeming qualities? But as a book, it’s just the worst.
I’ve also been reading Devil In The White City, which is extraordinary. Any one of the stories it tells could be a book, but the fact that they’re all together makes it all the better.
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I also forgot the extended section on how much smarter he is than anyone else because atheism is the best, and the section on how everyone masturbates. Cool, definitely worthy of being heralded as the best book of the year and worth millions of dollars in movie rights.
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I have been listening to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno. I’m on chapter 16 (of 30) at present, and thus far I’m…not really a fan. It has its references to forthcoming events in the prequels, but in general it’s slow and rather boring. And it mentions midichlorians more times than can be ignored.
Are you listening to an audiobook, or is someone reading it aloud to you in person?
https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Star-Wars-Darth-Plagueis-Audiobook/B006PFYCW6
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
Finished Ready Player One for the podcast “book club” 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (from a couple of the RiffTrax guys). Holy shit, that book is the absolute worst. Badly written, poorly plotted, the main character has no redeeming qualities and spends 371 pages bragging about how much stuff he has memorized.
As a gamer, I was intrigued by this book so I bought the audiobook from Audible. I couldn’t even get past the first few chapters. Somewhere early on, the main character thinks about how smart he is for realizing there is no God, then almost immediately afterward he goes back to watching episodes of Family Ties and thinks about how pointless life is. And this is Wil Wheaton reading this. So it’s not just the character saying it, but I could feel as though Wil was speaking almost for himself.
As a person of faith myself, I couldn’t get past the irony of that, so I went online to read a review from a Christian perspective. The reviewer I read said the book is always sullen and never really gets better nor does the protagonist learn anything, so I returned the book for something else.
I don’t understand the point of a book that’s all nostalgia and pop culture references when the story itself acknowledges that such things are worthless and hollow.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
That’s a bit harsh. Ready Player One was a fun nerdy beach read. You are correct in all your criticisms, but it was still a book I have no problem saying I enjoyed.
I read the first chapter. I could have kept going, but it was a natural stopping point. Perhaps if the entire book was one big chapter, I would have finished it.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
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Finished Ready Player One for the podcast “book club” 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (from a couple of the RiffTrax guys). Holy shit, that book is the absolute worst. Badly written, poorly plotted, the main character has no redeeming qualities and spends 371 pages bragging about how much stuff he has memorized.
As a gamer, I was intrigued by this book so I bought the audiobook from Audible. I couldn’t even get past the first few chapters. Somewhere early on, the main character thinks about how smart he is for realizing there is no God, then almost immediately afterward he goes back to watching episodes of Family Ties and thinks about how pointless life is.
So… Rick and Morty?
.
Finished Ready Player One for the podcast “book club” 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (from a couple of the RiffTrax guys). Holy shit, that book is the absolute worst. Badly written, poorly plotted, the main character has no redeeming qualities and spends 371 pages bragging about how much stuff he has memorized.
As a gamer, I was intrigued by this book so I bought the audiobook from Audible. I couldn’t even get past the first few chapters. Somewhere early on, the main character thinks about how smart he is for realizing there is no God, then almost immediately afterward he goes back to watching episodes of Family Ties and thinks about how pointless life is.
So… Rick and Morty?
No.