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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8608305" data-attributes="member: 20564">Haven't been reading for enjoyment as much recently.I'm in the middle of two books, but I've had urges recently for some short reads based on mood.&nbsp; One was The Rolling Stones by Robert Heinlein, but I could not find my copy and was denied.&nbsp; The other was Chess With A Dragon by David Gerrold.&nbsp; I picked it up after arriving home Sunday night, and finished it in one sitting.It's a concise read, a novella in length at best, and spends little to none of that on character development.&nbsp; But that doesn't mean that it doesn't pack quite a story into those few pages.&nbsp; My favorite chapter is like five paragraphs long, and the next chapter is even shorter.The pages are yellowing, but except for some touchstones to the USSR as shorthand for descriptions of a side character it has held up well.&nbsp; Hard to say of a lot of SF of that era.It's so short I really don't want to say anything about it as basically everything is plot relevant, except that humanity feels correctly portrayed.It has 3.8/5 on GoodReads, and that's probably where it belongs.&nbsp; For the effort you put into reading it, you'll get a lot out.&nbsp; Including, it seems, an urge out of the blue to reread it four or five years later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8608305, member: 20564"] Haven't been reading for enjoyment as much recently. I'm in the middle of two books, but I've had urges recently for some short reads based on mood. One was The Rolling Stones by Robert Heinlein, but I could not find my copy and was denied. The other was Chess With A Dragon by David Gerrold. I picked it up after arriving home Sunday night, and finished it in one sitting. It's a concise read, a novella in length at best, and spends little to none of that on character development. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't pack quite a story into those few pages. My favorite chapter is like five paragraphs long, and the next chapter is even shorter. The pages are yellowing, but except for some touchstones to the USSR as shorthand for descriptions of a side character it has held up well. Hard to say of a lot of SF of that era. It's so short I really don't want to say anything about it as basically everything is plot relevant, except that humanity feels correctly portrayed. It has 3.8/5 on GoodReads, and that's probably where it belongs. For the effort you put into reading it, you'll get a lot out. Including, it seems, an urge out of the blue to reread it four or five years later. [/QUOTE]

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