acemuzzy wrote:pantyfire wrote:American War - read that. I remember enjoying it but I can’t actually remember anything about it other than a shed.
My memory for consumables is shot to shit.
The but I'm at involves a shed.Spoiler:
What's the shed bit again?Gremill wrote:
Raiziel wrote:I finished The Citadel of the Autarch last night, which is the fourth and final book in Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. It is, quite simply, one of the strangest, most unique works of literature I think I’ve ever read. It’s dense, philosophical and quite often stubbornly opaque. If you’re up for some bizarre, contemplative sci fi, you could do a lot worse. It got under my skin and into my dreams.
acemuzzy wrote:Not even really heard of them. But that's crazy money.
davyK wrote:Just completed the 2nd book in the Three Body Problem series. The Dark Forest follows on where the first one left off. I remember feeling a bit cheated when I finished the first one because I didn't realise it was a series and it finished on - not exactly a cliffhanger - but with a situation that demanded further reading.
It's well worth carrying on. I still struggled slightly with the Chinese names, but it doesn't get in the way. This is a rather clever story and is an excellent book. I highly recommend this series. It kind of finishes after this - or at least you could complete this 2nd book and be satisfied. There is a 3rd book and I'll more than likely get that at some point in the future.
The book also has some very pleasing prose - far more so than in the first. Not just in general but there are passages that require it to get the ideas across without sounding corny. Considering it is translated from Chinese it represents quite the achievement and I cannot praise the original author and translator enough.
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