Books - What are you reading?
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Inspired after listening to this podcast by Sean Carroll interviewing the author. Extremely interesting, psychologist trains to be a professional poker player (and wins). Fascinating regarding game theory and how poker (vs other games eg Go or Chess) can be likened to life.
g3org3y said:
Inspired after listening to this podcast by Sean Carroll interviewing the author. Extremely interesting, psychologist trains to be a professional poker player (and wins). Fascinating regarding game theory and how poker (vs other games eg Go or Chess) can be likened to life.
Started on the Foundation series.
Quite enjoyable actually and not a heavy read. I like how it jumps decades at a time. It will make the upcoming TV adaption interesting to see how they handle it because there is no "main character".
Currently onto Foundation and Empire and have Second Foundation lined up (they were on Kindle sale a while back for almost nothing).
I can kinda see where Star Wars gets its ideas!
Quite enjoyable actually and not a heavy read. I like how it jumps decades at a time. It will make the upcoming TV adaption interesting to see how they handle it because there is no "main character".
Currently onto Foundation and Empire and have Second Foundation lined up (they were on Kindle sale a while back for almost nothing).
I can kinda see where Star Wars gets its ideas!
Hello, My Name is Henry by Micah Schnabel
I bought this book 'blind' - I was due to go to a gig with Micah Schnabel as a support act but that was cancelled so I bought the book to help out the author as there won't be any more gigs happening for a while!
It's VERY good! At the half way point of the book I was enjoying it and would've given a 4* review - the writing is good, it all feels very real and you can totally see why the characters would act the way they do. The plot hadn't really gone anywhere at this point, but I assumed this was the point of the book and was perfectly fine with that as the writing kept me interested.
At about 3/4 of the way through the pace quickens a bit, things start happening and at the end of the book I was left putting it down thinking that it was so much better than I expected a book I bought completely on a whim would be.
I bought this book 'blind' - I was due to go to a gig with Micah Schnabel as a support act but that was cancelled so I bought the book to help out the author as there won't be any more gigs happening for a while!
It's VERY good! At the half way point of the book I was enjoying it and would've given a 4* review - the writing is good, it all feels very real and you can totally see why the characters would act the way they do. The plot hadn't really gone anywhere at this point, but I assumed this was the point of the book and was perfectly fine with that as the writing kept me interested.
At about 3/4 of the way through the pace quickens a bit, things start happening and at the end of the book I was left putting it down thinking that it was so much better than I expected a book I bought completely on a whim would be.
p1doc said:
jimmyjimjim said:
It's decent, but it really does read as the first half of a book. The next book will obviously start the moment this one finished.
typical will have to wait for second book to find out what has been happening lolquite like alex verus and sandman slim series as well
There are subtle differences in the tone to the previous book, but that's to be expected, both with the character changing, and Butcher going through some major upheavals in his personal life.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Started on the Foundation series.
Quite enjoyable actually and not a heavy read. I like how it jumps decades at a time. It will make the upcoming TV adaption interesting to see how they handle it because there is no "main character".
Currently onto Foundation and Empire and have Second Foundation lined up (they were on Kindle sale a while back for almost nothing).
I can kinda see where Star Wars gets its ideas!
Must be 30yrs since I read the original series and loved it. Back when sci fi books were proper reads :-)Quite enjoyable actually and not a heavy read. I like how it jumps decades at a time. It will make the upcoming TV adaption interesting to see how they handle it because there is no "main character".
Currently onto Foundation and Empire and have Second Foundation lined up (they were on Kindle sale a while back for almost nothing).
I can kinda see where Star Wars gets its ideas!
Finally remembered to read a book I'd bought the wife as it was laying around.
"Daisy Jones and the Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Actually quite a good read, very different and anyone who is a fan of the original Fleetwood Mac and music era will be struck by the similarities.
7 Rumours out of 10.
"Daisy Jones and the Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Actually quite a good read, very different and anyone who is a fan of the original Fleetwood Mac and music era will be struck by the similarities.
7 Rumours out of 10.
200Plus Club said:
Otispunkmeyer said:
Started on the Foundation series.
Quite enjoyable actually and not a heavy read. I like how it jumps decades at a time. It will make the upcoming TV adaption interesting to see how they handle it because there is no "main character".
Currently onto Foundation and Empire and have Second Foundation lined up (they were on Kindle sale a while back for almost nothing).
I can kinda see where Star Wars gets its ideas!
Must be 30yrs since I read the original series and loved it. Back when sci fi books were proper reads :-)Quite enjoyable actually and not a heavy read. I like how it jumps decades at a time. It will make the upcoming TV adaption interesting to see how they handle it because there is no "main character".
Currently onto Foundation and Empire and have Second Foundation lined up (they were on Kindle sale a while back for almost nothing).
I can kinda see where Star Wars gets its ideas!
Remember the Inspector Banks TV series? In amongst a pile of books I picked up one of the Peter Robinson novels called Gallows View on which the series was based. All I can say is thank God the producer of the series did a better job than the author. A book that took willpower to finish. Yet there were fifteen books in the series, and the reviews from the Guardian Observer et al are glowing, so probably it's just me. But Robicheaux is back for the next read!
That's strange, I've always enjoyed the books. I didn't not enjoy the TV series, don't get me wrong, but I always imagined Banks differently than Stephen Tompkinson. I can't remember individual books, though, so perhaps the one you picked up is less good than the others. Bound to be less fast-paced when you've got more than an hour (or is it two?) to tell the story.
I've just finished "Fair Warning", from Michael Connelly. Very enjoyable.
I've just finished "Fair Warning", from Michael Connelly. Very enjoyable.
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