Finished The Twelve by Justin Cronin. Book 2 of The Passage trilogy! Finally!
It was interesting read, but too long. Too much back story and details that could have been condensed quite a bit. As it is, I didn’t like the fist quarter, second quarter was okay, third was interesting, and really enjoyed the last one.
Still one book remaining in the trilogy, but need a break, will come back to after a little while.
Read some more stories from The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
Now reading The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore. First book of The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and The Legend of Drizzt / Forgotten Realms series (publication order).
It’s my first Drizzt, and first D&D novel and has been on my wishlist for a very long time. Just started it so can’t really say much about it, but enjoying it so far.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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A History of Medieval Europe, from Constantine to Saint Louis. by R.H.C. Davis
Also reading some books about C++ and object oriented design patterns.
That sounds nice. I have read a few history books here and there, but nothing containing proper history of Europe. How are you liking it?
Oooh, nice. Which design patterns book are you reading? I recently started Design Pattern by the Gang of Four, have studied design patterns, but never read the book, so finally taking care of that.
The history book is excellent. It’s so interesting to see how society changes over time, and all the power games. Wow, they were violent though.
I have the same design patterns book. It’s actually more difficult than the C++ book. But it makes more sense now that I’m using C++ (I tried reading the design patterns book when I was just using JavaScript and it was harder to imagine how to implement the ideas).
Heh, unfortunately most of our history is violent. Though there were many peaceful times too, but those were limited to specific areas. Violence was more prevalent. I’ll take a look if our local store has it.
Yeah, Design Patterns book can be a bit dense, I am also reading it very slowly. Also, it’s the kind of book that I’ll probably consult many times in the future.
Just finished Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, and haven’t picked out what I’m reading next.
I think this is one of those I should have dropped rather than power through. I liked the story, but the writing style just wasn’t for me: poetic, but verbose verging on purple, imo. Is all his work like this? I vaguely remember reading “There Will Come Soft Rains” a long time ago, but I don’t remember how it was written. Also, I thought this was going to be Halloween-related, but it really isn’t.
Bingo squares: Older Than You Are (1962), Family Drama, (maybe) Plays With Words, Bookception (hard), Now a Major Motion Picture, It’s About Time, (alt) A Change in Perspective.
That first Passage book starts out so strong, and then just changes to a completely different (and far less interesting) book about 1/3 of the way in. It’s bizarre. I’m surprised you decided to read the sequel. Book one just felt like the publisher pushed Cronin to write a lame walking dead rip off.
We are legion (we are bob)
That’s an interesting concept. Though they synopsis just reminded me of a horror-ish short story I read about similar topic, so not happy about that.
There’s a black Mirror episode where they make a cookie and the make it into the brain of a smart home / assistant of their real self. Don’t remember the episode, but a horrific concept considering how they make the cookie comply by essentially torturing it.
I am working my way through the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. I’m on The State of the Art which is an anthology. All of the books up to this point have been EXCELLENT, especially Use of Weapons which is one of the best science fiction books I’ve ever read. Usually with the space opera genre and perhaps sci-fi in general, you land somewhere on a sliding scale between imaginative concepts and good writing, but Banks is one of the few that hits top marks in both areas.
