It's September - what are you reading?

[Vince W]

I was trying to read The Martian but I wasn't getting into it, really didn't like the narrative voice.

I struggled with the first two or three chapters, but it does get better. You could probably skip those chapters and not really lose anything essential to the story.

 

[ratsy]

I read Constitution by Nick Webb in one day! That's how much I liked it! It was a fun story. I feel as a late bloomer in the Scifi side of things, I am impressed with most things I read in it. I hope I don't lose that as I read more.

I think I may move on to Childhood's End by Clarke

 

[Bugg]

Just finished Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons: a Memoir by Lady Trent. Fantasy by way of the science fiction of Verne and Wells via Austen and Bronte. Loved it!

 

[tobl]

I read Constitution by Nick Webb in one day! That's how much I liked it! It was a fun story. I feel as a late bloomer in the Scifi side of things, I am impressed with most things I read in it. I hope I don't lose that as I read more.

I think I may move on to Childhood's End by Clarke

didn't like constitution.now on A billion ways to die

 

[ratsy]

@tobl What did you not like about it? I thought it was quite enjoyable.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett. Enjoying it a lot. Lives up to Dark Eden so far @alchemist.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith was a very good novel, with great psychological depth and a realistic depiction of all romantic relationships as complicated and messy, but with a hopeful ending after emotional turmoil.

I have just started Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (1853;2014 Dover press edition of their 1970 reprint of the 1854 edition, with their 1970 introduction). Source of the recent film. This is the true first person account of a man who was born free in New York state, then later kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. So far the author's elegant and formal style seems to provide a powerful contrast with the horrors depicted.

 

[hitmouse]

Just reread Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem in this Mandarin 1990 edition, after a gap of at least 20 years. Really excellent collection of related short stories. Often quite funny and touching. Decent translation from the Polish original.

 

[Bick]

Just began Stephen Baxter's Raft. Really looking forward to this as I've heard great things about it. Splendidly odd setting so far (only a few pages in). Reminds me a bit of Niven's Integral Trees for some reason, though that may well change.

 

[Vertigo]

Just began Stephen Baxter's Raft. Really looking forward to this as I've heard great things about it. Splendidly odd setting so far (only a few pages in). Reminds me a bit of Niven's Integral Trees for some reason, though that may well change.

A truly odd setting indeed. Though I found some of the characters a bit clichéd I did love the book. Strangely, though it was three years ago I read it, I've still not read any more of his books.

 

[tobl]

@tobl What did you not like about it? I thought it was quite enjoyable.

i think the story is repetition of works like ark royal and others. it might be a good to read but it's not at the same level. that's just my opinion

 

[The Bluestocking]

When's the October thread going up?

 

[Mark Ragland]

Finished Vulcan's Forge by Jack De Brul. Enjoyed it.

Starting Robert Ludlum's The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti, about terrorists who seize a batch of cholera.