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Are you 11 years old?
Just kidding. They're pretty good actually. Books are better than the movies but that's usually the case.
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Me either. Zero interest.
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I read the first one when my daughter said she wanted to read it, she was like 10 or so. Wanted to check it out first. Never read any of the others or saw more than 3/4 of the 1st movie.
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Hitting up Justin Cronin the passage again. Great story and beautiful writing brings me back
Whoever recommended Joe Abercrombie, thanks. The “Half a King” series is pretty good.
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Trying A distant mirror again, which I’ve been attempting since high school
Reading Project Hail Mary as discussed in the TV/Movie thread.
It's pretty good, but it's kind of the same snarky first-person narrative that The Martian was. I mean, I get it - it's the same author, the same "scientist is alone in space" type of thing - but it might as well be the same character.
It's pretty good, but it's kind of the same snarky first-person narrative that The Martian was. I mean, I get it - it's the same author, the same "scientist is alone in space" type of thing - but it might as well be the same character.
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I read the 1st trilogy "The First Law", 3 stand alones "Best Served Cold", "The Heroes", and "Red Country", and also a collection of shorts "Sharp Ends". They were all good. Haven't started the next trilogy yet.
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Oh well, maybe next time
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Started a new series "The Prosecution Force" by Logan Ryles. Another Spec-Op super dude that saves the world. Pretty good, mindless action.
My library doesn't have the second book in Abercrombie's "First Law" series and now I'm stuck reading this.
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I couldn't find the audiobook for "Before They Are Hanged" on any of the less than legal avenues I normally look, so I had to buy it on Audible.
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A note on library memberships - I have like 9, check to see if yours offers reciprocity with other counties and towns. Some I have to go to in person every few years to renew.
Someone did get shot across the street from one is the Maryland ones so I may let that one go
Someone did get shot across the street from one is the Maryland ones so I may let that one go
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NGL that would be pretty scary
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Haven't started that series yet. I just started "The Age of Madness" trilogy, takes place in the First Law universe roughly 30 years later. Good so far.
Been reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and it was interesting for a while, but I'm about 80% through and it's getting to be a slog.
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Just finished the 2nd First Law trilogy from Abercrombie. Really good. Sets up a bunch of shit that we may never see resolved though.
I finished the trilogy and it does have a resolution but it also leaves the door open for additional books - some characters' arcs aren't really complete. I think Abercrombie has also published a number of other books and stories set in the same world but I haven't bothered to really check them out yet.
The Deep Blue Good-By, the first in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. Written in the 1960s and it shows by the way he writes about women (ah, the good ol' days!), I decided I wanted to read it because so many contemporary crime fiction authors like Lee Child and Randy Wayne White cited the series as inspiration. You can definitely see Travis McGee's influence in the Doc Ford series.
Anyway, it was pretty good. McGee lives on a houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale and doesn't have a steady job. He gets stolen stuff back for clients, which usually involves him doing some private-eye stuff, some fighting, some James Bond type stuff, etc. He gets the girl, of course (though at least by the end of the first book, the love interest is gone - I imagine all the books are similar).
Highly recommended. My library didn't have the second book in the series, so I haven't gone any further, but when I find it I'll read it.
Anyway, it was pretty good. McGee lives on a houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale and doesn't have a steady job. He gets stolen stuff back for clients, which usually involves him doing some private-eye stuff, some fighting, some James Bond type stuff, etc. He gets the girl, of course (though at least by the end of the first book, the love interest is gone - I imagine all the books are similar).
Highly recommended. My library didn't have the second book in the series, so I haven't gone any further, but when I find it I'll read it.
