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Different strokes for different folks. Some people really love RP1, and some people don't.

Drop me a message next time; we'll meet up & I'll buy you a drink. Or a book. As long as it's no more than the price of a drink.

I'm in the same demographic, but...RP1 did nothing for me. I couldn't help but compare it to Snowcrash, and RP1 does not do well by that metric. (I have the same issue with Old Man's War and The Forever War. Haldeman by a light year.)

Ithaca NY has a used book sale twice a year, put on by the Friends of the Tompkins County Library Association. Three 3-day weekends, price drops every day. Apparently one of the biggest in the country. Not sure how they do it, but it's a full warehouse every time. So I don't do used bookstores...

Reading A War in Crimson Embers, by Alex Marshall. Book 3 of the Crimson Empire trilogy. Really, really like this series. It's a fun read & I'm amusing myself by seeing it as a reskinned D&D campaign. Very much in the Joe Abercrombie vein. Up next will be the rest of the Christmas haul -...

I reread Snowcrash a few years ago and thought it had actually aged pretty well. I don't recall any glaring issues with When Gravity Fails. The sequels are a little harder to get a hold of. Recommendation: River of Gods, by Ian McDonald. Also Cyberbad Days (same author, same world). For a REAL...

I just finished The Deed of Paksenarrion, and just started Oath of Fealty, the first of the sequel series Ms Moon recently wrote. Feeling stressed, so decided to go old school. Recommendation: Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. Goes particularly well with any of the Henry VIII biographies by Alison Weir.

I think When Gravity Fails is excellent. The later books don't quite live up to it, but I think it stands up really well on its own.

As someone who got into gaming years before Youtube (or the internet....)...this reminds me of the fact that I spent years reading about D&D before I played it. I went from 1e to 2e without ever playing a game. Admittedly I did a lot of "development" and map-drawing, but...there might be...

I've been travelling a lot, and alternate between burning through books and reading 20 pages in a week. I'll have to figure out what else I've read this month, but have read two post-end-of-the-world books this weekend - Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse, and A World Made By Hand. The latter is...

Never Let Me Go messed with my head for months. Recommended.

I read The Girl With All the Gifts again, and a few other books I can't recall right now, and currently finishing up Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Like Cryptonomicon, it's just kinda ambling along. Stephenson does a LOT of worldbuilding, but it's like he's just written the footnotes into the...

Just a nitpick - Felix Castor isn't from the Lucifer series. It's completely stand-alone, and an excellent series. M R Carey is easily one of my favorite authors right now.

It just didn't sing to me. I enjoyed it, but...I dunno. I read The Boy on the Bridge immediately thereafter and that dragged me right in, no problems (I bloody well cheered at the end too!) Ditto.

The Stone Sky and The Boy On The Bridge are both set to be delivered tomorrow. I, of course, will be on my way to Connecticut for two days. <sigh>

Oooo! It's out? I know what I'm ordering tomorrow.

I've been moving and travelling for work, so everything is topsy-turvy. I did read High Fidelity (quite good), the Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab (A Darker Shade of Magic/A Gatherings of Shadows/A Conjuring of Light), and Fellside by M R Carey. Moved on to Years best Science Fiction edited...

CJ Cherryh's SF, particularly the Alliance/Union Universe books, are some of my favorites. BUT she can be a hard writer to read. She doesn't do a lot of explanation - you keep up or get out - and her writing style is...I dunno. Very psychological. And nobody ever gets a proper night's sleep in...

Oooo....Or I can keep both copies and read with both hands!!! :D

Not sure I've read the novella. Where did you find it? These are the books that got me started on NK Jemisin. Personally, the bit with the goddess of hunger and her pure indignation when confronted with the hole of nothing was just pure fun. :)