davyK wrote:I've nearly finished Life and Fate by Vasilly Grossman which is simply brilliant. It's hard to track all the characters and their relationships because of the number of them but also because of the way Russians name people which means they have 2 names all seemingly ending in "ov"!!). But wow - what a book. Made up of several parallel inter-related narratives set in WW2 with the 2 main ones being about a nuclear physicist struggling with his life and his relationship with Stalin's Russia, and the other being at the front during the siege of Stalingrad. But there are others including a blood chilling deathcamp/gas chamber sequence. Grossman was a Jewish war correspondent and was on the Russian front line for 1000 days. The descriptions of the conditions are the most striking I've read. This will demand a re-read at some point.
Fist bumps.Gremill wrote:30. The Hod King (Josiah Bancroft)
Third in the Tower of Babel trilogy and yet again he knocks out out of the park - absolutely brilliant storytelling, world building and characters. So enjoyable, so compulsive and I can't wait for the next installment.
Raiziel wrote:I am reading his The Three Body Problem right now and it is AMAZING! I was not prepared.
Gremill wrote:Raiziel wrote:I am reading his The Three Body Problem right now and it is AMAZING! I was not prepared.
It's due a reread for me. But as Davey says, you ain't read nothing yet until you get to the second and third books. Completely changed the way I thought about what sci-fi could be and about the universe in general. Amazing stuff.
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