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    6/11/2023 9:20 am  #281

    Kokipy
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    Re: What have you been reading lately?

    I suspect our Ann Leckie has read and enjoyed Murderbot seems to be an appreciative nod in that direction which makes me smile. 

     

    6/11/2023 10:49 am  #282

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    Finished Translation State. I really enjoyed it, but I think I need to go back and reread the ancillary  3 because there seem to be some references to things I don’t really remember well. 

     

    6/11/2023 5:22 pm  #283

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    Re: What have you been reading lately?

    I have started Palmer's Too Like the Lighyning. 
    I'm only a few chapters in, so it is early days, but it is already feeling reminiscent to me of Neal Stephenson and The Diamond Age.
     

    It's a strange world.  Let's keep it that way.
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    6/12/2023 6:28 pm  #284

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    Interesting connection

     

    6/13/2023 7:08 pm  #285

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    Kokipy wrote:

    Interesting connection

    Yes. I can't explain it either.  But then I've never really understood how my brain works ...
     

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    6/16/2023 7:32 pm  #286

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    Re: What have you been reading lately?

    I'm still enjoying the Palmer but I am also finding it to be fairly slow going and not a page-turner. 
    There is a lot of worldbuilding and backgrounding going on and it's often in a form of language and pseudo-philosophy that is obtuse and harder to parse, being too focused on its own cleverness. It might be well-camouflaged info-dumping in places, but it still looks like info-dumping to me.

     

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    6/17/2023 6:40 am  #287

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    Re: What have you been reading lately?

    I read Lightning many years ago, but have no memory of it.  

    My best recent read was Rose|House by Arkady Martine. A novellette length closed room murder mystery with a most interesting AI.  Recommended.  $6 from Subpress or Amazon kindle. 

    Also read Witch King by Martha Wells. This one disappointed me. The story was just ok,  but the background to the story wasn’t made very clear, so at times I didn’t really know what was goong on.  This review says it really well:  https://locusmag.com/2023/05/adrienne-martini-reviews-witch-king-by-martha-wells/

     

    6/17/2023 6:46 am  #288

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    I came across this review for Dual Memory, hich sounds really interesting. 
    https://locusmag.com/2023/05/paul-di-filippo-reviews-dual-memory-by-sue-burke/

     

    6/24/2023 7:40 am  #289

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    I agree about Lightning, Surtac- I am grateful to you for giving it a try. I am really unsure about it myself.  I apologize for imposing it because I am not really recommending it.  that’s a muddle! 

     

    6/24/2023 11:01 am  #290

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    Re: What have you been reading lately?

    Aja Jin wrote:

    I came across this review for Dual Memory, hich sounds really interesting. 
    https://locusmag.com/2023/05/paul-di-filippo-reviews-dual-memory-by-sue-burke/

    A good fun read. Not deep, but interesting characters, including an AI that is VERY different from the one in Rose House. 
    I have a personal connection as well, as Sue Burke is my wife's first cousin. 

     

     

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