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How was it? Dude has a mighty brain, I'm really enjoying his work. Anathem was excellent, and also one of the more challenging reading experiences I've had.

 

it was extremely long, haha. Read more like an overly complicated thriller than his other stuff I’ve read (Seveneves which is hard sci-fi and Rise and Fall of DODO which is a sci-fi comedy).

 

Picked up the recommendations I was given.

Need to finish the dark forest and depending how I feel might go right into deaths end. If not I'll probably read red rising first.

 

Dark Forest and Death’s End is the peak of sci fi. So many mindblowing concepts

 

The Dark Forest was a masterpiece. I loved the three body problem but the dark forest is just on another level. Gonna dive right in to deaths end.

 

Somehow Death's End manages to be even better.

 

I’ve never really dived into much Sci-Fi but is that trilogy a challenging read to follow? I feel like sometimes I get overwhelmed with a confusing plot, too many characters, too much science/history, etc.

I read the synopsis of the first book and obviously intrigued by any alien invasion type story!

 

It's definitely high concept and I would say fairly challenging but for both the first two books I was able to settle in fairly quickly. A lot of characters and concepts are thrown at you.

 

Just bought this to read to my 20 month old son.

 

Deaths end is wild. I'm halfway through. This might end up being my favorite book trilogy/series.

 

Finished Death's End. It gets really heavy into dimensions collapsing into themselves so the last few hundred pages were a little challenging for me. But what an incredible trilogy.

If I were to rank the books

1. Dark Forest - A++
2. Three Body Problem - A+
3. Death's End - A-

Also: The Three Body Problem (Netflix) • forum.chorus.fm

Now to get started on some of the recommendations given to me in here

 

any of y'all read Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury? I've never read anything by him before but it seems like I might be very into it. just not sure it's the right starting point for him or not

 

It's my favorite of his novels (although there are a bunch I still haven't read). The Illustrated Man is usually where I recommend starting with Bradbury, but that's a short story collection. You really can't go wrong with either.

 

cool. thank you for your help

 

Finished a masterpiece last night. Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan, a 500+ page modernist work of Danish literature. Calls itself a bildungsroman but it's so much more than that. A young engineer leaves his family and religious upbringing to seek fame and fortune in Copenhagen. It was written in late 1800's but honestly felt like it could've come out today. It had some moments that moved slowly, but overall, I absolutely loved it.

 

Finished Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. Pretty good, breezy stuff. I’d give it a 7/10.

 

Two questions:

Is Dracula worth the read?
Is Dracula still scary to someone that can’t watch horror films?

 

i really liked about half of it. the epistolary stuff i didnt care for much, but everything else is pretty cool. i didnt find it all that scary though tbh

 

I just finished A Russian Journal. That's pretty interesting too.

 

Winter of our discontent is my fav Steinbeck

 

Just started Lonesome Dove. Long books either take me 2 weeks or 3 months, nowhere in between

 

I read this last year for the first time. It's utterly fantastic. Bit slow to get going but once they start the trip it grabbed hold and wouldn't let go.

 

Picked up "Ducks, Newburyport" from the Little Free Library in my town square. I think some in the thread read it? Hoping I can make it through the whole thing within a month or so

 

I liked it a lot! once you get going it doesn't feel quite as long as it seems imo

 

First few chapters are pretty cool, but it eventually becomes way too long in the tooth. Stoker has a lot of weird takes on women that don't age well either. He writes about "new women" but also slut shames Lucy? It's weird.

There are some "jump scares," but I don't think it'll keep anyone up at night. My sophomores thought it was cool how Stoker implemented them despite its being a novel and not a movie/show/play.