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Old 08-26-2015, 11:38 AM   #22711
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One thing one immediately notices when reading the Millennium trilogy is that the word "coffee" is used amazingly often - characters in the books are unable to take any action without making, buying, or drinking it, it appears. For interests sake I used the Kindle's search facility to find out how many times the word was used in the book I've just read: it appears 104 times .
Well, that is how it is in Sweden and Finland.

Search for tea in English books...
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Well, that is how it is in Sweden and Finland.

Search for tea in English books...
Did it really not strike you when you read the books that Mr Larsson used the word "coffee" strangely often? It did for me . People in English certainly drink a lot of tea, yes, but English authors generally manage to avoid using the word "tea" 100+ times in a novel.
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So I'm reading this book by Steven Baxter, Voyage. It's a very technical book and it seems to be hard SF, so you would expect it to be pretty accurate with the science.

But, right near the start this astronaut is driving his Corvette, which apparently is a 4 seater. Um, what? I don't think so.
What is the science?

Seems to me that this is like using the wrong name for a person or something else totally irrelevant. Or using the wrong color. Or the wrong phone number.
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Did it really not strike you when you read the books that Mr Larsson used the word "coffee" strangely often? It did for me . People in English certainly drink a lot of tea, yes, but English authors generally manage to avoid using the word "tea" 100+ times in a novel.
Other things was also described in much detail. Like the food. It was a technique used to give a certain effect. And it worked very well.

On the other hand people that have read both say that the English translation is not good at all.
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What is the science?

Seems to me that this is like using the wrong name for a person or something else totally irrelevant. Or using the wrong color. Or the wrong phone number.
Or just a reminder that it is an alternate universe.
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Other things was also described in much detail. Like the food. It was a technique used to give a certain effect. And it worked very well.

On the other hand people that have read both say that the English translation is not good at all.
As I said in my report on the books above, I thought that all three were absolutely superb. The best crime fiction I've read in a very long time. I certainly had no issues with the translation.
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What is the science?

Seems to me that this is like using the wrong name for a person or something else totally irrelevant. Or using the wrong color. Or the wrong phone number.
There's no "science" to this item. I'm just saying, a hard SF book where I expect fairly accurate science, like how a nuclear rocket would work, surprised me when such a simple thing was wrong.

Sure, alternate history and all, but I still don't think Chevy releases a 4 seater, even
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if JFK didn't die.
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Old 08-26-2015, 08:48 PM   #22718
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There's no "science" to this item. I'm just saying, a hard SF book where I expect fairly accurate science, like how a nuclear rocket would work, surprised me when such a simple thing was wrong.

Sure, alternate history and all, but I still don't think Chevy releases a 4 seater, even
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if JFK didn't die.
Dude, sometimes change just happens. Weird ripples, who knows? Maybe that spoiler shuffled someone into Chevy's team through a fifth- or sixth-order effect who said "hey, you know what'd be cool?" and got 'em to try it. It's a tiny thing twenty-plus years down from a nexus point. That's not "wrong" as a detail, nor is the author "wrong" for not explaining the exact chain of events that led to the difference.

Sure, it could be an unintended shift. Maybe you're right, maybe the author didn't realize that car didn't come in that model in this reality. That still doesn't make it wrong in his book, no more than having someone smoke "Dromedaries" in a TV show because they don't want the headaches of using Camels makes that show secretly alt-universe SF. It's an insignificant detail that you're overthinking.
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Up next is Lost Horizon by James Hilton which was a finalist for the March book club.
I am still reading Lost Horizon, should finish tomorrow, but I had a 7+ hour round trip drive today and decided to try an audio book so I borrowed The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall from my library. It is 7 hours and 19 minutes long so I had to sit in my driveway to listen to the last 3 minutes. Good selection for this particular trip. Excellent book! I will be looking for more of the Quiller books as soon as I can.
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Finished Spree. Starting to reread 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus , Second Edition by Charles C. Mann. Always an interesting read...

I have it in dead-tree format, so I will likely read something else on my tablet... the key is to go with entirely different genres.
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I just finished Simon R. Green's Forces from Beyond, sixth and last* in his "Ghost Finders" series. It helped immensely that I'd read the previous book a few days before, and familiarity with the Secret Histories and Nightside books also came in handy... it all ties in for a battle to save the world. I was thoroughly pleased with the book as climax to a solidly long series - six 300-page books ain't nothin' - and in its own right. I am seriously considering a Hugo nomination for it next year; it was fun, and it was good, and it was good fun.

I can't wait to see what the Droods do next. I'm a book behind on Eddie's adventures; perhaps I should correct that oversight...

* No, I have not heard any official word that the series has ended. I'll just be very surprised if there's a seventh book. I should note that I felt the same way about six books into the Nightside series, though, and it ran for half a dozen more volumes with a second arc...
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I am still reading Lost Horizon, should finish tomorrow...
I was able to finish at lunch today. I think it is a worthy book for the book club and would be a good selection in January as our 2015 runner-up.
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I wish there were a little less mystery about Conway's travel back to civilization before the epilogue or a couple more clues about that trip in the epilogue but that would have probably been telling too much.

Next up: Pyramids by Terry Pratchett as I slowly work my way through the Discworld.
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I just finished Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek. It was quite a page turner but not that memorable in the end, in my opinion.
I would recommand it to those who like thrillers and want to have a nice time. Not a too thought inducing one, though.
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I just finished Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek. It was quite a page turner but not that memorable in the end, in my opinion.
I would recommand it to those who like thrillers and want to have a nice time. Not a too thought inducing one, though.
Thanks for the recommendation, sounds intriguing. Now on my "Want to Read" list.

I'm currently reading Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton, in preparation for her new release in the ABC series, "X".

Kinsey and Me contains a collection of short stories about the PI from her ABC series, followed by a frank look into Sue Grafton's life in a series of "And Me" stories, which I haven't got to yet. The short stories are fun, with some interesting premises, if sometimes wrapped up just a bit too quickly. But that may just be my expectation of the novels, and these are after all short stories.
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Next up: Seas of Ernathe by Jeffrey A Carver. Bought in 2009, but the first in a series of which I bought the second back in 2005, so a necessary preliminary for me to finish off the last of my unread 2005/2006 purchases.
And I find that although it was the first written in the series, it is last in internal chronology.

It also wasn't very engaging, and a little too Andre Norton-esque for me. I expect the rest to be better. For an athor's first novel it wasn't bad.

Next up: The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. I resisted buying this when it came out (it's not as if I'm short of good books to read!), and now I have it at a very good price, and I'm really looking forward to reading it.
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