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Highly recommend the audiobook version of Project: Hail Mary. You really get a lot more out of the experience. Plus Ray Porter is awesome
Just stated the Bobiverse this week. I’ve finished books 1 & 2. Interestig stuff. Sort of like The Expanse but handwaves the tech in a way that doesn’t disturb the storytelling.
I’m torn on finishing the series or getting into my TBR list:
- Elita by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
- The Everlasting by Alic Harrow
- The Antidote by Karen Russell
- Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
- Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
- Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
- The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
- Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
One dimension:
Willingness to share Liberties with other people
Far Right = Ayn Rand
Far Left = some guy who just wants to live in a van down by the river and smoke weed all day
You don’t wear an undershirt with your tees?
Yeah I listen to audiobooks and the interweaving plotlines with similarly named characters is confusing
The Fifth Season has been on my list for a while. I should pick this up!
This ruling upholds the Circuit Court order barring the use of national guard forces specifically in Chicago.
A separate order was issued in the ninth circuit barring the use of national guard forces in Portland. That has been appealed and was waiting for this decision.
It’s unlikely the administration will prevail in lifting the order in Portland now that this decision was made against their favor.
In and out. A lot.
Good to know you’ll have a flashing red light if he ever starts to develop dementia
A linear story is split in two parts.
The black and white sections explain Leonard’s backstory and show that he’s willing to lie to himself to be happy just like his wife was willing to lie to him because she was unhappy.
The color section is revealing the consequences of Teddy using Leonard, but also Leonard’s willingness to lie to himself.
The special edition DVD had it recut in a linear fashion. It works both ways… linear is a standard detective story without much depth. Recut, it’s a compelling story about Truth and consequences
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I just finished the Cantos this week. I think Hyperion is one of the best sci-fi setups ever conceived. The Canterbury Tales in Space is so hype, and so well executed. I could read it ten times and love it every time.
The rest of the series is ambitious, but never quite lived up to the first book. There are incredibly interesting ideas, and some excellent parts… but I can’t give the whole thing a 10/10.
Book four light spoilers
Aenea spends so much time talking at the reader, and her set up as the savior of humanity pins her character in a corner.The discussion on how “humans stopped evolving” was an incredible turn on my view of the Ousters, and helped recontextualize the series as a radical, conservationist epic instead of just an anti-authoritarian one was also A+.
Since I just read this, I’ve been thinking a lot about how a television adaptation would work. Season one would be just the first book… one pilgrim’s tale per episode. But then I feel like the next three books would need a comprehensive overhaul to streamline the narrative and pick a clearer focus.