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Monday, 27 July 2015
One more discussion post for the month of July!
Ok, fellow book nerds! One more post to discuss The Martian. (You can see Mark up there is getting a little worn out, too.)
The consensus seems to be that the novel was pretty technologically accurate, with minor limits, and that that generally was the selling point - the 'I'm going to have to science my way out of this' aspect was one that people liked a lot. The NASA scenes seemed to have been necessary, but kinda distracting, and people seemed to find the decision (taken by the rest of the crew) to rescue Mark kinda-anticlimactic. Agree? Disagree? Discuss! But, all in all, I think people liked it, and had a good time. Hopefully people enjoyed Book Club thus far! Be thinking also of a book you might like to August -later this week I thought we can try and hold a vote to see what people are into. (I don't think anyone else will want to try William T. Vollman's 1300+ page novel about the Nez Perce War, but, I can hope. =P)
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lilmookieesquire said @ 3:38am GMT on 28th July
Btw, recently, I asked my friends for some suggested reading, this is what they came up with:
It's not all sci-fi, but I thought book recommendations are always nice, and it should hopefully get some discussion rolling.
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The comfort of things -Daniel Miller,
The Lifecycle of Software Objects - Ted Chiang
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned...
Murakami's Underground
all of Bill Bryson's stuff.
Monster Hunters International book series. Island 731 followed by Project Nemesis.
(I thought this book was dogshit - lilmookie)
Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Also his Mars trilogy is good, all about terraforming.
Charlie Charleston The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko, the sequel is The Broken Universe.
Replay by Ken Grimmwood.
Incognito by David Eagleman
(For good trash) Harry Bosch series by Michael Connolly.
The culture series
Steven Pinker 'The Better Angels of our Nature'
Michael Shermer 'The Moral Arc'
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Goldfinch
The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
You by Caroline Kepnes
The Nights Dawn trilogy.
Al Dente Canada, The Sportswriter, and Independence Day, all by Richard Ford.
Money by Martin Amis.
A People's History of the United States
Anything by John Dalmas.
lilmookieesquire said @ 3:38am GMT on 28th July
Btw, recently, I asked my friends for some suggested reading, this is what they came up with:
It's not all sci-fi, but I thought book recommendations are always nice, and it should hopefully get some discussion rolling.
lilmookieesquire said @ 3:39am GMT on 28th July
Btw, recently, I asked my friends for some suggested reading, this is what they came up with:
It's not all sci-fi, but I thought book recommendations are always nice, and it should hopefully get some discussion rolling.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 3:38am GMT on 28th July [Score:1 Informative]
Btw, recently, I asked my friends for some suggested reading, this is what they came up with:
It's not all sci-fi, but I thought book recommendations are always nice, and it should hopefully get some discussion rolling.
