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  • What have you read recently?

Just finished the wolf, @JonQPublik & @Wally. Exhilarating final battle chapter but the deus ex machina lightning bolt felt like a pure cop out. Epilogue was great though.

    rhouses Can’t say anything about the lightning bolt. The Spider is equally brutal and satisfying. I’m about ⅔ in The Cuckoo, (the finale).

        After loading up my Kindle for my trip. I then had the biggest Reg I’ve had in a long while. Somehow I left it on the plane flying from the UK to Dubai. Hopefully it will get handed into lost property.. I’m absolutely Fewmin.

          Dubman
          FFS Dubbers!

          Backed up to t’cloud though so you could read off another device if you’ve taken one.

          Thinking more of a Gary as reading off the phone would be a massive plum-ache!

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              Anyone read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow? I’m a fifth way through and it’s a great read so far…. About a couple of games programmers (male and female) and their relationship…. It won a number of awards (Amazon book of the year, Goodreads fiction prize 2022) - must have done so for a reason I guess! One of those books I look forward to reading in bed before sleep….

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                Sounds like a decent rec though Julie

                I just started Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak and just finished Origin by Dan Brown.

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                I reread Dan Simmons’ The Terror. It’s a fictionalized version of the Franklin Expedition of the 1800s where the English tried to find the North West Passage and everyone died. Almost 800 pages of cold, starvation, scurvy and a mythic inuit monster killing people. And slow. Yet I come back to it every few years. AMC made a TV-version of it, that’s on Prime (at least in Finland). It’s pretty good, and has a terrific cast with Jared Harris in the lead role.

                  The Cuckoo (final book of Leo Carew’s trilogy) was fantastic. Thoroughly satisfying. I’ll leave it at that.

                  Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. This was recommended to me by a longtime friend. Yes, it’s good, but not as good as his All The Light We Cannot See. Enjoyable without being too predictable.

                  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix. Very entertaining. Can’t believe I’m enjoying horror again.

                  I just started The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson. Final book in the Wax and Wayne series (and the end of Era 2 for the Mistborn series).

                  Homegrove Brilliant show, one of my favourites from that year. My only gripe was the supernatural aspect (which tbf was relatively ambiguous at times) of it… took away from the ‘terror’.

                  Couldn’t get passed the first episode of the Japanese themed season 2.

                      rhouses they tried to do it without the monster, but could not get funding.

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                        JonQPublik I saw its release date changed as well. I’ve still got plenty to read until then.

                        Just been changed again to Feb 2024 ☹️

                            Iain M. Banks - The Algebraist. The last scifi book of his I had left to read, and I’m glad I left it last, because while not set in The Culture, I thought it was his best book. Nobody can write space opera the way he did.

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                              How Spies Think - David Omand - non-fiction book I read out of general interest. So so - more ‘how data analysts think and by the way, social media is awful’ but a few choice anecdotes from the guy’s career as head of GCHQ and PPS to various important people. 7 SEES models / 10

                              Currently on ‘The Kaiju Preservation Society’ - John Scalzi - first book of his I’ve read and it’s top notch so far. Like Jurassic Park was written by a smart stand up comedian.

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                                As a man who enjoys scifi occasionally I’ve never read William Gibson. My wife got me a bunch of his novels on paperbacks for Christmas, and I just finished his first book Neuromancer and liked it a lot. It’s weird reading it only now, because it’s been plagiarized by so many movies since. It has a virtual reality called Matrix for crying out loud. But it seems like the fella can write. I now plan on reading everything he’s done next. It’s not that long of a list, he’s not that profilic writer it seems.