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I really liked the Doc Smith. Still gritted my teeth through half the dialog but something about it was captivating in a way I can't explain.
Hey, Extollager - glad you 'liked' the post, given I read the Ox-Bow Incident and Our Mutual Friend as a direct consequence of your recommendations, so I have to thank you for that! Much appreciated. So what should I read this year ?
Oh, go on then, I'll give it a go. I've certainly seen you put it up in lights on these boards and have wondered about it. I was probably put off, until now, by an incorrect assumption I made based on nothing at all; I assumed it was at least 800 pages, such books often being so, but I see its actually under 400 pp, which is less of an undertaking. I shall have to get it at some stage now.Highest recommendation for Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin. I might have posted too much about it at the thread on it that I started months ago.
I started looking at the paper bound purchases I made and the ones I read and came up with this partial list.
This one fell short for me.
My Colorblind Rainbow Hardy, Chanel
. Did not love it but it wasn’t entirely bad for a first novel.
It did not quite deliver what I was expecting.
One problem I had was that it was in the LGBT category and I was expecting something insightful from that perspective and it didn’t quite deliver. However it takes place in 1940 and involves both a black-white relationship and a same sex relationship; so realistically it couldn’t work out without some sort of tragedy. However, to really understand where my issues lie one has to read the novel and see if they get the same feeling.
I also took the time to read everything I have of Robert Heinlein this year and just now finished with ::
To Sail Beyond the Sunset.
Despite the age of many of his novels I still enjoyed reading them.
However I have to admit that the last two he published were largely erotic in nature with less credible science and mostly a lot of fantastic fiction. (Still enjoyable.)
Born a Crime, Stories of a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Thanks, TinkerdanI started looking at the paper bound purchases I made and the ones I read and came up with this partial list.
Have not looked into the ebooks purchased for 2017
I enjoyed all of these books.
Rax Coney, Michael
Revenger Reynolds, Alastair
WWW: Watch (WWW Trilogy) Sawyer, Robert J.
WWW: Wake (WWW Trilogy) Sawyer, Robert J.
WWW: Wonder Sawyer, Robert J.
Empire Card, Orson Scott
Halting State Stross, Charles
Rule 34 Stross, Charles
Saturn's Children Stross, Charles
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) (Volume 1) Taylor, Dennis E.
For We Are Many (Bobiverse) (Volume 2) Taylor, Dennis E.
All These Worlds (Bobiverse) (Volume 3) Taylor, Dennis E
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers) Chambers, Becky
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers) Chambers, Becky
Forsaken Skies (The Silence) Clark, D. Nolan
Forgotten Worlds (The Silence) Clark, D. Nolan
Dark Metropolis Dolamore, Jaclyn
Glittering Shadows (Dark Metropolis) Dolamore, Jaclyn
The Dream Thieves Maggie Stiefvater
Blue Lily, Lily Blue Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, Book 4) Stiefvater, Maggie
Lightless (The Lightless Trilogy) Higgins, C.A.
Steeplejack: A Novel Hartley, A. J.
By the Mountain Bound (The Edda of Burdens) Bear, Elizabeth
The Sea Thy Mistress (The Edda of Burdens) Bear, Elizabeth
Waters and the Wild Zebedee, Jo
Princess Grace of Earth (The Zerot Infestation) (Volume 1) Lambert, A K
This one fell short for me.
My Colorblind Rainbow Hardy, Chanel
. Did not love it but it wasn’t entirely bad for a first novel.
It did not quite deliver what I was expecting.
One problem I had was that it was in the LGBT category and I was expecting something insightful from that perspective and it didn’t quite deliver. However it takes place in 1940 and involves both a black-white relationship and a same sex relationship; so realistically it couldn’t work out without some sort of tragedy. However, to really understand where my issues lie one has to read the novel and see if they get the same feeling.
I also took the time to read everything I have of Robert Heinlein this year and just now finished with ::
To Sail Beyond the Sunset.
Despite the age of many of his novels I still enjoyed reading them.
However I have to admit that the last two he published were largely erotic in nature with less credible science and mostly a lot of fantastic fiction. (Still enjoyable.)