mrsmr2 wrote:Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
What a book. Proper sci-fi, made me think, and utterly compelling to read.
More of this please.
Raiziel wrote:44. The Descent by Jeff Long
Take the excellent British horror film The Descent, blow up the scale to World War Z proportions, season generously with Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth and you get something like Jeff Long’s 1999 door-stopper The Descent. The premise is that Hell exists in a very physical way, and it’s right where many religions and myths said it was all along: beneath our feet and deep in the earth. When this planet-spanning honeycomb of vast caves, tight tunnels and subterranean seas is discovered the powers-that-be just can’t wait to get down there to explore it and commercialise it, even if there are some very nasty things waiting for them in the darkness. I really enjoyed it. There’s a single sequel, and I’ll be getting around to that very soon.
Gremill wrote:17. The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
This, on the other hand, is about as far from lovely as you can get - but may be one of the best books I've ever read. It's the story of the horrors of slavery era Georgia, the attempts of one girl to escape the plantation using the eponymous network of help and the mind-bending inhumanity of the times. It's absolutely incredible - at once both beautifully and poetically written, whilst using that gorgeous language to describe the worst that humanity can inflict on each other.
ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:Gremill wrote:17. The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
This, on the other hand, is about as far from lovely as you can get - but may be one of the best books I've ever read. It's the story of the horrors of slavery era Georgia, the attempts of one girl to escape the plantation using the eponymous network of help and the mind-bending inhumanity of the times. It's absolutely incredible - at once both beautifully and poetically written, whilst using that gorgeous language to describe the worst that humanity can inflict on each other.
There's an Amazon tv show of this. I've heard it's quite good but I imagine it's hard going
ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:I've started reading Best Served Cold and it is indeed good. This is the one y'all liked the most right?
tigersgogrrr wrote:I preferred Abercrombie's YA series (Half a...) over any of his 'standard' stuff, but Best Served Cold is a cracker.
Subbax wrote:I'm finally on Dark Age, the 5th book in the Red Rising trilogy and it's brutal. I'm loving the series and I have to get the actual books. Read most of them from the library but I'll read them again at some point.
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