Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[drofgnal]

Originally Posted by nana77

Just finished "Project Hail Mary", by Andy Weir (2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary); I've liked it, haven't read nor watched "The Martian"; btw, if I can say something about I was often comparing it to "Red Planet Blues", because Weir's writing seemed a bit like being wrote to be fine as a plot for a movie: when I was reading Sawier's book I was thinking on how that plot was so fast in a timeline that it can't fit on a film script... This was just to say that -imho- visualizing a novel while reading may be enjoyable even when it can't really fit movies.

Now on"Fiasco", by Stanisław Lem (1986).. I'm liking the philosophical trips it takes once and then .

I'd give the Martian a try, I enjoyed it more than Project Hail Mary.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by drofgnal

I'd give the Martian a try, I enjoyed it more than Project Hail Mary.

Agreed. I found Project Hail Mary a bit of a letdown. Sophomore jinx or whatever, but it felt like rushed to meet a deadline to take advantage of the buzz around The Martian

[DiapDealer]

Artemis was the letdown (actually borderline painful) for me RE Andy Weir. Maybe that's why Project Hail Mary felt like a step back in the right direction to me. *shrug*

[Dazrin]

Same here.

Martian > Project Hail Mary >>> Artemis.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Traitor King by Andrew Lownes. This is for an in-person book club, and follows the Duke of Westminster from abdication.

Duke of Windsor, of course. Duke of Westminster’s going gangbusters, richest peer in the UK. Owns a large swath of London, IIRC.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Artemis was the letdown (actually borderline painful) for me RE Andy Weir. Maybe that's why Project Hail Mary felt like a step back in the right direction to me. *shrug*

Let's definitely try to forget Artemis. Please.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Let's definitely try to forget Artemis. Please.

Agreed!

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by issybird

Duke of Windsor, of course. Duke of Westminster’s going gangbusters, richest peer in the UK. Owns a large swath of London, IIRC.

Yes, my head said Windsor, and my fingers typed Westminster.

Now fixed in the original.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Traitor King by Andrew Lownes. This is for an in-person book club, and follows the Duke of Windsor from abdication.

So far my only criticism is that I would have liked (a brief) 'life until abdication' chapter.

Whew. Done with this book at last. A detailed look at their life, with loads of references and footnotes.

And in the end, a sad and unfulfilling life it seems to have been. And a lucky escape for the British Empire (and possibly the rest of Europe) that he did not remain 'King and Emperor'.

Next up was the latest Penric story by Lois McMaster Bujold, Testimony of Mute Things. A story from earlier in Penric's life, when he was unmarried.

As expected, an excellent tale.

Then I read a short story in Hal Clement's "Heavy Planet" series, Under, which was good.

And now I'm reading Star Light his second "Heavy Planet" novel.