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Ready Player One is not a good book, gang. Not at all.
The Road is not a record of fatherly fidelity; it is a testament to the abyss of a parent’s greatest fears. The fear of leaving your child alone, of dying before your child has reached adulthood and learned to work the mechanisms and face the dangers of the world, or found a new partner to face them with. The fear of one day being obliged for your child’s own good, for his peace and comfort, to do violence to him or even end his life. And, above all, the fear of knowing—as every parent fears—that you have left your children a world more damaged, more poisoned, more base and violent and cheerless and toxic, more doomed, than the one you inherited.
I don't know if anyone is still reading Knausgaard's My Struggle or not but I just finished Book 5 last night night and absolutely loved it. Back in form after a weakish, though still enjoyable, Book 4. I also had the enormous pleasure of hearing him read recently and it was fantastic. He gave a few spoilers for Book 6 which lead me to believe the series is going to end on an outstanding note.
I'm trying to read Moby Dick and struggling. How the fuck do people do it? Do people still read this shit? It's so fucking long and racist and not really as pertinent as I was expecting. It's mostly just the 19th century wiki article on cetaceans but without the cetacean needed joke. I'm about 250 pages in so the plot is beginning to start, but I sure hope a lot of cool whale monomania stuff happens soon.
I used to work at a Hastings when I lived in Albuquerque. Fun times.
Wish I was there so I could feed off the carcass as well.
I'm reading Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It's really hard to follow because it's based on a lot of vague dialogue full of spy jargon. I'm trying to think of what it's about exactly, and I can't even explain that. Spies talking about things? The movie is on Netflix, so I think I'll watch that after I finish the book so I can figure out what I just read. I became interested in the author after watching The Night Manager. I hope his other books are better, because I just bought two others.
I'm working my way through your links, but have been meaning to ask - did you read the final book in the Passage trilogy? I remember you didn't care for the second book.
I enjoyed it, but a lot of the impact was lost by having so much time between the books that I had completely forgotten what had happened (I should have done a Wikipedia recap or something first).
Before the Fall was very good, and I really enjoyed the Last Policeman series.
Annihilation started out AWESOME but lost some of its oomph in the third book for me. Zone One also very good. I recall liking Gold Fame Citrus, but I think the first half was much stronger than the second.
The Annihilation series definitely ends better than it begins but I still was digging it at the end. I think they're making the first one into a film AS WE TYPE.