Books - what are you reading? (Official Book Thread)

[Trav]

Finished this a while back but man the book is so much better than the movie

They did the book something dirty with that movie

Also finished Project Hail Mary whole lot of science in that book more so than his other books.

Currently reading

Literally RPO in less than a day on the same day the movie was released to be prepared....needless to say, the movie was nowhere nearly as captivating and I can barely be bothered with a rewatch when I see it on Network TV when it should be a fun, continuous watch lol.

Scared to read Vol. 2 tho fr

 

[O.Red]

Read both in 4 days

 

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Just wrapped up The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin. Took longer than I expected to read such a short book but I did have a lot of distractions keeping me from reading.
This book was very much different from the other books of hers I read in that, as far as the sci-fi goes, this felt even more closer to what you expect from 70s science fiction. It's a fun little story about a man that can change reality based on his dreams. I saw that there are a couple of live action adaptions so I'm going to check them out

 

[Trav]

Shyt was frustrating as hell at times, not cuz of the writing or anything, but just the circumstances

Kind of felt like somewhat of a prequel or at least sharing the same universe as Dark Matter to some degree. A fast and entertaining read.

 

[summwunn]

 

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Just finished reading Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K D!ck
I tried reading it years ago but couldn't get into and I had the same problem but I forced myself to stick with it and it got way better around the point where Rick meets Luba.
Book vs movie? I might have to give the slight edge to the movie but but that might change when I give more thought to the book

 

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[Trav]

Book #5 down for the year

I'll give bro (BC) this---even when he somewhat misses the mark, he is daring in the plot material he's covering to say the least. Gene editing tying into climate control/global warming packaged as somewhat of an action thriller, plus more human memory concepts. Liked Recursion a lil more than this one tho.

 

[Mike Nasty]

 

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Just finished reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I vaguely remember Fahrenheit 451 but in reading this I now understand why he was so highly regarded as a writer. I'm going to have to go buy his Library of America boxset.


Very mild spoilers but he had a part in there that legit made me because it reminded me of this gif

Here is the passage

Spoiler

Genevieve Selsor stood in the open door of the salon as he ran across the street. A box of cream chocolates lay open in her arms. Her fingers, cuddling it, were plump and pallid. Her face, as he stepped into the light, was round and thick, and her eyes were like two immense eggs stuck into a white mess of bread dough. Her legs were as big around as the stumps of trees, and she moved with an ungainly shuffle. Her hair was an indiscriminate shade of brown that had been made and remade, it appeared, as a nest for birds. She had no lips at all and compensated this by stenciling on a large red, greasy mouth that now popped open in delight, now shut in sudden alarm. She had plucked her brows to thin antenna lines.

Walter stopped. His smile dissolved. He stood looking at her.

She dropped her candy box to the sidewalk.
"Are you --- Genevieve Selsor?" His ears rang.
"Are you Walter Griff?" she asked.
"Gripp"
"Gripp," she corrected herself.
"How do you do," he said with a restrained voice.
"How do you do" She shook his hand.
Her fingers were sticky with chocolate.

 

[sjankis630]

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari. It is a book about the history of the human race and how the flow of information has helped shape our world both good and bad. And now we find ourselves in a crisis where disinformation is helping to drive the world apart at the same time we are rushing headlong into the age of AI - where this same information can be used potentially to harm us if it isn't correct. I have read his book Homo Deus previously and this one is great as well. His whole section on how religion drove people apart with its unquestioned authority compared with real science and a true democracy which has checks and balances built in. I am just reading the chapter about populism and I keep thinking about Mark Twain's quote "History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes."

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[Trav]

Man....at times this shyt was immersive & grippin', and then at times it was like the ramblings of one of the same characters he shoehorned in near the end to basically give atrocious vomit dialog on global warming, science of thought etc. You can see remnants of the mf who wrote JP but somebody let this mf cook way too long in the kitchen with this one.

 

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Man....at times this shyt eas immersive & grippin', and then at times it was like the ramblings of one of the same characters he shoehorned in near the end to basically give atrocious vomit dialog on global warming, science of thought etc. You can see remnants of the mf who wrote JP but somebody let this mf cook way too long in the kitchen with this one.

From what I gathered, there is no point reading Crichton after Timeline

 

[Trav]

From what I gathered, there is no point reading Crichton after Timeline

Damn shame...

And they had the nerve to let James Patterson finish one of his books that multiple people in bookstores have tried to sell me on---I can only imagine the fukkery

 

[sjankis630]

And they had the nerve to let James Patterson finish one of his books that multiple people in bookstores have tried to sell me on

If they truly let James Patterson finish one of his books I assure you it wasn't James doing the writing but one of his dozens of ghostwriters. All of them being terrible writers of course.