I felt basically the same way about Sandman Slim. It's fine, but honestly Mike Carey's series is a lot better.I've been reading the Sandman Slim novels. I'm not sure how much I like them. They are ok, and I like the punk rock attitude of the main character; but often I find the interrelationships between everyone confusing. I'm 5 books in; and while indeed there was a long break between me reading 1&2 and 3-5 recently, there are a lot of characters who come back that I'm like - uh, is that person important?
Just started 1st book of Murderbot Diaries. Looking forward to it, have heard good things.
Dude. Bridge of Birds. Number Ten Ox. Master Li has a slight flaw in his character.The books I got for Christmas...
Piers Anthony Macroscope
EL Doctorow Ragtime
Barry Hughart Bridge of Birds
Just finished Murderbot Diaries vol 1 All Systems Red and super enjoyed it.
That sounds like a pretty excellent mixture. I used to have dreams of being a Well-Rounded Reader and reading all kinds of Posh Lit'rit'chur, but genre fiction is way too much fun for me to do more than occasionally dabble elsewhere.I like to start each year by reading the Best American Short Stories for that year. I've just started this year's batch. My partner also got me a subscription to my local book store's book of the month... They always pick out really interesting new books! So right now I'm also reading a collection of rather surreal stories by Mexican writer Julián Herbert called Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino.
On my pile of books to read this year I have The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehesi Coats, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, and others!
I remember when I used to do that! Nowadays I find I barely read short fiction. Last collection I read was Denis Johnson's The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - which was excellent, BTW.I like to start each year by reading the Best American Short Stories for that year. I've just started this year's batch.
Yeah, I was going through a real Agatha Christie kick, and The Big Four killed it for me. Definitely not her finest work.I just finished Agatha Christie's The Big Four. It's a short Hercule Poirot novel that reads like a child wrote a spy adventure while on cocaine. It's kinda terrible, but fun. I'm going to try her Death on the Nile next.
I'm also reading the new-ish translation of Lem's Solaris and Becky Chamber's 2nd Wayfarers book.
I love, love, love short fiction. I just read, back to back, two volumes of Alice Munro's short stories. As I said to a friend, somehow the quotidian lives of Canadian women is just the escapism I need right now.I remember when I used to do that! Nowadays I find I barely read short fiction. Last collection I read was Denis Johnson's The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - which was excellent, BTW.
Well, last year I set out to read the Neuromancer series and the Wheel of Time series. Finished the First easy, didn't finish the second. Got bogged down by Wheel of Time but managed to eek out finishing Book 11. Started Book 12 (the Gathering Storm) over Christmas and it's actually moving a LOT faster (or at least a lot more fun reading it) and already 2/3 of the way through. Figure I'll actually finish the WoT series this year, if the last few books are like Book 12, probably within the next month.
After that, perhaps Redwall. I've also gotten several history books to refresh my memory on the History of Great Britain (so, not just Britain, but England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales with various books detailing the history of each).