August 2022 Reading Thread

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The Island of Doctor Moreau is a brilliant book, and The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine are very good too.
 
Randy M. said:
"Weird" fiction often acts as if plot is a tertiary concern behind language and imagery. I'm okay with that, and maybe especially with this one.
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I am very greedy and of the "have my cake and eat it" school when it comes to plot *and* X, but yeah, I am learning to adjust my expectations for weird fiction.
 
I finished Judge Dredd: Year One and absolutely loved it. I’ll read more for definite.

Now on to The Expert Systems Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Been on my list since I read Vertigo’s review.

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Haven’t had a lot of reading time recently but finally got through The Santaroga Barrier. It’s an interesting book that touches on aspects of the human psyche and consciousness, which is a thread that runs through a few of Frank Herbert’s novels.

Hopefully, if I can find the time, I’ll be starting historian Dan Jones’ Crusaders very soon.
 
Read the The Suitcase Clone by Robin Sloan.
The Suitcase Clone is a charming companion story to Robin Sloan's Sourdough novel. Narrated from the perspective of... well... you will see when you read it, this novella tells the story of James Bascule and his trip to Europe to "acquire" cuttings and (unusual) yeast from a particularly famous vineyard, and hide the proceeds in a suitcase with hidden compartments (hence the suitcase clone epithet). Funny, interesting and entertaining, this story does not require the reader to have previously read Sourdough.​
 
Bick said:
Now starting Reunion (2001) by Alan Dean Foster - my go-to ‘light read’ author. This is a Philip Lynx book. ADF is likely to be my most read author this year, I expect, as I have 4 or 5 others in my immediate TBR pile.
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I enjoy his Pip and Flinx books, read most of them now. Just got the later ones to read. Midflinx is the next ADF target.
 
Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings

It seems like a standard "mankind vs cunning aliens" space opera so far
 
Just over halfway through Rabbit is Rich by John Updike. Completely hooked by this life of a rather ordinary, not particularly likeable (but not especially unlikeable) guy in 1980 Pennsylvania. Most of it is trivial in the wider scheme of things, but so well written. And sometimes you get something slipped in that pulls the world -- your world, everyone's world -- into focus. I like this one:

The thing about those Rotarians, if you knew them as kids you can't stop seeing the kid in them, dressed up in fat and baldness and money like a cardboard tuxedo in a play for high-school assembly. How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
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HareBrain said:
Just over halfway through Rabbit is Rich by John Updike. Completely hooked by this life of a rather ordinary, not particularly likeable (but not especially unlikeable) guy in 1980 Pennsylvania. Most of it is trivial in the wider scheme of things, but so well written. And sometimes you get something slipped in that pulls the world -- your world, everyone's world -- into focus. I like this one:
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Yes, I like Updike I think. I read a few of his Rabbit books a few decades ago. I remember liking them, though I felt they were a touch ‘dense’ maybe - which may have been me, not Updike’s writing.
 
I also decided to start reading John Gross's The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters, which I've owned for 11 years.
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Bick said:
That may be the least appealing book cover I've ever seen, Extollager! Hopefully the contents are more enjoyable.
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It sort of reminds me of this one I saw this scrolling through old pulp covers the other day:

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A man of letters for the future Mars colony.
 
Bick said:
Yes, I like Updike I think. I read a few of his Rabbit books a few decades ago. I remember liking them, though I felt they were a touch ‘dense’ maybe - which may have been me, not Updike’s writing.
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I also like Updike. Couples is particularly good.
 
Putting the brakes on Norman Mailer's The Castle In The Forest, perhaps temporarily, perhaps not. Where it's going is hard to figure but for now: incest incest incest, enough enough enough.

Now starting Four Past Midnight by Stephen King.
 
Cobalt Blue by Matthew Reilly
( Light reading - a superhero story)


For 35 years, the United States and Russia each had their own superhero.
Three days ago, America's hero died.
Today will be bad
 
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