Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Avatar wrote:Oh, one of my favourites.

--A

Yesterday I had some spare time, so I finished it. It is good alright.

Btw, what are your impressions of Peter Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction (and that trilogy)?

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

I like it a lot.

Sorus wrote:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

One of those books that always looked interesting, but I'd never gotten around to reading. It is quite interesting.

It certainly is!

I just started in Kafka's last novel The Castle.

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Affirmation, Christopher Priest. Interesting, yet the bland prose and bland scenes distract.

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James

Never could get into the Forever War stories for some reason. How you finding them? --A Just started Forever Peace . Fair question A. Prose and characters not very interesting, rudimentary even, Forever Free is a bit better in that regard. The ideas and plot of The Forever War are intriguing for su...

Forever Free

Joe Haldeman

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

The Modern World

Steph Swainston

No Present Like Time

Steph Swainston

The Year of Our War

Steph Swainston

Riddley Walker, at long last. It's brilliant!

Just finished my Gap-reread-binge-fest. It was so satisfying and diverting!

Skyweir wrote:I just bought the book actually - it's now on my to read list. So not much chop?

I loved the book.

The series was so-so for me.

YMMV

Hiro, thanks for the lengthy response! You make some excellent points. I encourage opposing points of view. I want to like this book. I want to be shown how I'm wrong. The comparison to TLD was interesting. Like you, I thought TLD was a failure, and my complaints mirror my problems with TUC--which ...

Hiro, follow the link, enter your text in the box and click "remove diacritics." Copy and paste it here. utils.paranoiaworks.org/diacriticsremover/ So am I missing something, or did the ciphrang plotline go nowhere? What was the point of the Blind Slaver and Vile Angel? Thanks for that li...

Crap! So sorry Hiro! I thought I was the last one here to finish. Yeah, I expected the No God to walk again. I suppose I expected it to happen as a final weapon which Khellus would then defeat. And then when the Mutilated suggested that it *had* to happen, I thought for a second that Khellus would ...

That was just awful. One of the worst endings to a series I've ever read. Did anyone enjoy reading that? I've been reading through the links provided on the last page. In one discussion, Bakker said this: Interpretative indeterminacy, or what I call 'Crash Space' in my philosophical work, is what t...