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Originally Posted by Dazrin
Right now my page count for January is 3,856 which is 9 pages short of my all-time high reading month. Maybe I need to read a short tomorrow instead of Split Second.  |
I am not sure why I keep forgetting to actually update this thread, but once again it has been more than 2 weeks.
I continued my "I want to read a new thriller series" theme by reading
Split Second by David Baldacci, the first in the King and Maxwell series. Also the third new series I have started this year. I have one more on hold at the library and then will decide which to try to continue. Split Second was a good story but I didn't enjoy it as much as the
Camel Club or
Point of Impact, so it will probably be near the end.
I finished January with 4,368 pages read, over 500 pages more than any other single month for me. As expected February isn't going quite as fast, although I am certainly enjoying it.
First was the cyberpunk stand-alone
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was published in 1992. Apparently this book is one of the best in the sub-genre, which I am not very familiar with, but I wasn't enamored by it. It is very dark and the slang used was difficult to follow a lot of the time. There are a lot of similarities between it and the more recent
Ready Player One but RPO is a much better story in my opinion.
Somewhere in my wandering around the internet I came across "
The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth and I needed to see what it was if only to figure out what the title meant. Apparently it is one of the inspirations for the movie
Idiocracy and was written in the early 1950s. Sounded interesting and when I was looking for that I found out it was actually a sequel to another short story "
The Little Black Bag" that was written a year earlier and has since won a retroactive Hugo award. Apparently Frederik Pohl encouraged him to write the sequel after reading TLBB, I for one am thankful. I ended up reading them in published order and enjoyed both quite a bit. Both were excellent and hold up fairly well to the passing of time which a lot of SF doesn't do.
Currently reading
Firefight by Brandon Sanderson, the Reckoner series #2, which my library just procured on my recommendation, which also meant I got to be first in line. Yay!