what are you reading?

[Mat]

It's more about the author has said, not written.

Yeah, I struggle with that too, as I love the book.
That Orson Scott Card actively and financially supports anti-LGBT organisations makes me very uncomfortable.
I'd love to see the movie, but I can't in good conscience pay to see it knowing that a percentage of the money I'd pay would then be spent to support such organisations.

Still, there really is nothing related to the subject in the book of Ender's Game, and "Buggers" is just a North American colloquialism for insects/bugs/creepy crawlies.

[IronGiant]

Just finished reading 'Yeager' by Chuck Yeager - a great read, fascinating and well written.

[NorthWay]

"Happy Hour in Hell" by Tad Williams, the second Bobby Dollar book. Will report in later when I have finished it.

[BlackJedi]

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie - a debut sci-fi novel that I picked up on a whim. A starship's distributed AI is left with only a single unit embedded in a body that used to human - One Esk Nineteen - when the ship is destroyed, so the last unit decides to take on a galactic empire to seek revenge. It's a superb space opera that also has interesting things to say about identity.

Some info on John Scalzi's blog.

[limb_clock]

I just finished reading Dave Eggers' The Circle, which shows the dangers of over-reach by a single tech company that poses as a nice, utopian, people healing one-in-all solution.

[Deckard]

Anyone got an Oyster (Netflix for books) invite they give mail me ? If you got a membership I note now you have unlimited invites so dont be stingy - http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/10/oyst ... sal-update

[NorthWay]

"Happy Hour in Hell" by Tad Williams, the second Bobby Dollar book. Will report in later when I have finished it.

I finished it a week or two ago. Not bad.

You can sum it up as "Alice in Wonderland, except this hole goes _all_ the way down".
I didn't think you could write up hell in such a way that it was depressing to read, but I think he managed it. Can't make up my mind if that is a good thing in a bad way, or a bad thing in a good way.

Do note that this book is very much the first half of the story that the next book should conclude. Even if it builds on the first book (and that one is more standalone).

[funkstar]

I didn't think you could write up hell in such a way that it was depressing to read, but I think he managed it.

Did you read Iain M. Banks' "Surface Detail"?

[NorthWay]

Did you read Iain M. Banks' "Surface Detail"?

No. Should I?

[zip accident]

Finished this a couple of days ago:



http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099 ... UTF8&psc=1

It's not the film. It's a long time since I saw the film, but it's certainly different.

[funkstar]

Did you read Iain M. Banks' "Surface Detail"?

No. Should I?

Well, hell (in a certain sense) features prominently and gruesomely, and not merely in the Dantean Seven Circles of Hell way. Although on reflection I'm not sure "depressing" is the right word for what I felt when reading it.

Not that I'm advocating seeking out depressing books, mind.

(Yeah, I'm not quite sure why I'm posting this. Oh, well.)

[merman]

That Close, the autobiography of Suggs (Graeme McPherson) from Madness. I pre-ordered and got a signed copy and it's a really good read. From a council estate to the roof of Buckingham Palace, it's full of fun and great anecdotes. Sure, it's not the best written technically, but you always get the sense of how lucky he feels to have lived that life.

[Daniel]

The Great Gatsby.
Meh.

[everklear]

"The Way of Kings" by Sanderson. I'm plodding through it. Just hasn't grabbed me. Not bad just ... hasn't grabbed me.

[TFO]

"The Way of Kings" by Sanderson. I'm plodding through it. Just hasn't grabbed me. Not bad just ... hasn't grabbed me.

I felt the same. A bit like his Mistborn stuff - really interesting ideas that can get a bit "OK" at times