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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8733947" data-attributes="member: 20564">Was doing some traveling for work, and got in some reading time.&nbsp; Reread Going Postal by Terry Prachett.&nbsp; Fantastic as always, I think this was the fourth time through it.&nbsp; If you want a full review, tough.&nbsp; Just go read it.Read Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming.&nbsp; It's a side series set up in the world that his Laundry Files has morphed into.&nbsp; It was good, but lacked a certain zing to it.&nbsp; Call it a 7/10.&nbsp; It did keep the action going and have an interesting cast of characters.&nbsp; But then again, I quite liked early &amp; mid Laundry Files while I'm only a moderate fan of where everything ended up once they introduced [ISPOILER]superheroes[/ISPOILER].&nbsp; And the characters in this are an outgrowth of that.I started The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, which I've heard good things about.&nbsp; But somehow the writing style feels dated and isn't catching me.On Kindle Unlimited I started We are Legion (We are Bob).&nbsp; It feels like good fanfiction.&nbsp; That's not a knock down at all, just an observation.&nbsp; Worth the time to read so far, but the characters outside the main character are given precious little time to be more than 2D cutouts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8733947, member: 20564"] Was doing some traveling for work, and got in some reading time. Reread [U]Going Postal[/U] by Terry Prachett. Fantastic as always, I think this was the fourth time through it. If you want a full review, tough. Just go read it. Read Charles Stross' [U]Dead Lies Dreaming[/U]. It's a side series set up in the world that his Laundry Files has morphed into. It was good, but lacked a certain [I]zing[/I] to it. Call it a 7/10. It did keep the action going and have an interesting cast of characters. But then again, I quite liked early & mid Laundry Files while I'm only a moderate fan of where everything ended up once they introduced [ISPOILER]superheroes[/ISPOILER]. And the characters in this are an outgrowth of that. I started [U]The Doomsday Book[/U] by Connie Willis, which I've heard good things about. But somehow the writing style feels dated and isn't catching me. On Kindle Unlimited I started [U]We are Legion (We are Bob)[/U]. It feels like good fanfiction. That's not a knock down at all, just an observation. Worth the time to read so far, but the characters outside the main character are given precious little time to be more than 2D cutouts. [/QUOTE]

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