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  1. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    30 July 2025 - 08:01 PM

    View Postamphibian, on 30 July 2025 - 01:24 AM, said:

    Hail Mary by Andy Weir was a very good read - better by a wide margin than The Martian due to being less of a "guy puzzle solves everything" and more of a series of puzzles/challenges intermixed with real character work.

    I think the buddy dynamic really works well in both ways it gets done in this book.

    I skipped Armada, has anyone read it?



    Funny, I had the opposite opinion: I prefer the Martian a fair bit coz I think there are parts where Weir's tried to force a similar style onto a story that would have benefited, in parts, from something very different in tone and and structure. Though it did settle in for the second half.


    Spoiler



    Anyway I've been in a bit of a reading doldrum but I've just started Metal From Heaven, by August Clarke, an anticapitalist revenge thriller type thing with some excellent prose. Only just started but it's caught my attention.

  2. In Topic: DC Studios

    15 July 2025 - 05:02 PM

    The Supergirl cameo was a direct set-up for Woman of Tomorrow, the story they're adapting for her movie, and if you haven't read that then you really must. It's a genuine stone-cold classic despite only being five years old. Might be my favourite Superman-adjacent comic ever, and that's saying, you know, a lot.

    Anyway yeah.


    Spoiler

  3. In Topic: DC Studios

    12 July 2025 - 02:18 PM

    Yeah that was Terrific.

  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    06 July 2025 - 09:41 PM

    I read Sea and Stone, the latest Peter Grant book by Aaronovitch.



    It's... fine? I mean, it's a Peter Grant book, it wasn't gonna be bad. But it's a little weaker than the best ones, in large part because it's 50% an Abigail book. Which hurts it for two reasons: one, I hadn't considered that I was supposed to be reading the Abigail novellas as main adventures, so, well, I haven't yet. But her story here begins with a major emotional beat that presumably comes directly out of those stories but which I have no idea about. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it all just leaves the book a bit divided. The Peter sections and Abigail sections do end up dovetailing, of course, it'd be wild if they didn't, but they each have separate local (Scottish) supporting cast, separate investigative arcs, and related-but-essentially-separate denouments. That's a lot to squeeze in to a 270 page book. It ends up feeling a bit scattered.

    But... ya know. It's still a fun book.

  5. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    03 July 2025 - 06:22 AM

    View PostMacros, on 02 July 2025 - 06:49 PM, said:

    Her usual thing is like Harlan Coben.

    She wants to see what I read, And GreatCloaks book 1 did come into my head.

    Library at Mount Char is probably a bit toooo out there, but she did enjoy Neverwhere when they read it for book club.


    I'd love to go like Daighter of the empire or something, but I'm always so wrapped up in recommending magician first I don't think I could, ha!



    lmao this reminds me of a deal I once made with a chap on an old forum, where I promised to read Harland Coben if he read Malazan.


    I got him totally hooked on Malazan, and I still haven't held up my part of the bargain. Maybe I should this week just for peace of mind lol.

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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2025 - 07:50
    happy 39th
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2024 - 09:29
    happy #38
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2023 - 09:51
    happy birthday PG
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    Tsundoku 

    21 Jul 2021 - 20:03
    35!
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2020 - 07:25
    And again. Hope it's a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2019 - 08:30
    Ermagerd, another year rolls around. Happy birthday.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2018 - 00:29
    Happy beerthday
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