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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > What book are you reading? And what do you like about it?
 
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Apr 18, 2001
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Doctor J Off posted:

I read his book Artemis for the 372 Pages podcast and it was not good to say the least. I hope his other books are a lot better than that

:same: Loved the Martian, but Artemis was real bad


most recent book - This Is How You Lose The Time War

i thought it was pretty good and I liked it, although its relatively short and the :airquote: twist :airquote: is extremely predictable, but there's something beautifully poetic about the story.

AARD VARKMAN posted:

The Martian was decent competency porn and so was Project Hail Mary though the latter does stretch further in to SF.

i didn't read Artemis. and this is irrelevant but i only made it ten pages in to Scalzi's Kaiju book before the dialogue made me want to throw it at a wall. gently caress you John Scalzi

Old Man's War was good, the sequels and whatnot were 90s Waldenbook poo poo-tier

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Captain Hygiene posted:

Jurassic Park's been on my mind since it got mentioned upthread, and I finally jumped in to give it re-read for the first time in probably 15 years. Man it holds up so far, I'm standing by my thought that it's my favorite premise for its general thriller genre, and it seems like it's paying that off so far.

Of course I love the movie, but I'm enjoying the stuff that got trimmed out of it. The whole intro tracing procompsognathuses from isolated incidents through the medical/forensic networks to slowly figure out what's going on was a lot of fun in a very Crichton-ish way, and it only barely made it into the movies as the beach scene in Lost World. With how meh the later movies have been, it really puts me in the mood to go back to this one in a miniseries or something which could go through it without rushing through to fit it in a single film.

:haibrow: I somehow read the book before seeing the movie, and ofc the math and poo poo went way over my head, but the book is its own interesting story that has very little to do with the movie.

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kiminewt posted:

I read that trilogy as a teen but was weirded out by the dirt-eating sex cult thing they had going on. Wonder if it'll go down more smoothly as an adult.

I've been reading Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson also, and luckily that has less sex in it.

that book starts out :tif: but it fades out pretty quickly

hella want an airship tho

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I binged Charles Stross Accelerando yesterday.

I thought it was interesting, a tiny bit prescient for being written 1999-2004, but also mostly that science fiction really doesn't need sex scenes

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