Yeah, Hail Mary is a fluffy quick read.  The Dan Brown of scifi LOL, pretty accurate. Altho Dan does quite well in terms of sales, so not a bad place to be.

Aja Jin wrote:

Yeah, Hail Mary is a fluffy quick read.  The Dan Brown of scifi LOL, pretty accurate. Altho Dan does quite well in terms of sales, so not a bad place to be.

If sales and money are the reasons to write - and those are understandable motives - Dan Brown is a success. Without going into detail, I find his actual books personally unreadable. But I’d swap bank accounts with him!

Finished Abercrombie's The Trouble with Peace and jumped straight into the Bobiverse via the first book, We Are Legion.

Wow, what a contrast.  Joe had me turning virtual pages at a ferocious rate because I needed to know what would happened to characters I've come to care about as I start to realise the long game he has been playing over all the earlier books in that universe. 

Whereas Legion had me turning pages simply to get to the end,  A procession of variations on a theme, the various Bobs had me so confused at times I had to go back to the chapter heads to remind myself which POV version was in play.  It reminded me a little of Scalzi's Redshirts which is a book I have been unable to finish to this day.  All sizzle but no steak imo.


 

I just re-read I Am Legend. I'd forgotten what a good read it is. And the ending is amazing. Highly recommended. PS Don't judge it by the movies

HRHSpence wrote:

Yeah, the movie was a bit lame.

That's one reason why I tend to avoid movies that are based on books, although some aren't too far off, I still want MY interpretation of the story, characters, scenes, etc., instead of the director's interpretation.  For that, I rely on the book.