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Old 02-01-2017, 02:42 AM   #25276
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Oh, yes indeed. I've dropped an SF writer because they had their spaceships manoeuvring like sea-going ships for no reason.
That's often deliberate; Star Trek II is a prime example of using wet-navy tropes to tell a space-navy story, and there are a lot of "Hornblower in Space" series out there. So there is a reason, it's just not a physics-driven reason - the author's just strapped warp engines onto a battleship.

Come to think of it, one of John Ringo's series does almost exactly that. As in, the Vorpal Blade spaceship was created in-universe by taking a wet-navy submarine, making it spaceworthy, and launching it for a series of interstellar adventures.
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Old 02-02-2017, 12:58 AM   #25277
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Finished The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer.

I now need something really engaging and entertaining: I am being distracted by extraneous things, like Minecraft. I will probably reach for a favorite, though I am sorely tempted to buy a bunch of Tank Girl comics at Humble... though reading them on a 7" tablet would be kind of problematic, I'm thinking.
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Old 02-02-2017, 03:07 AM   #25278
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though reading them on a 7" tablet would be kind of problematic, I'm thinking.
Depends on the tablet. I read most of my comics on an iPad mini 3 (Retina screen) and have no complaints, but doing so on the cheap Android tablet with a screen just as tall (but not as wide - 16:9 vs. 4:3) but without the Retina pixel density would be a pain.
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Old 02-02-2017, 07:18 AM   #25279
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Finally jumped back in with John Knowles' A Separate Peace and an ARC of the upcoming FSG translation of Hideo Yokoyama's Six Four.
Finished A Separate Peace this morning. Started Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun. Still working through Six Four.
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Old 02-02-2017, 08:31 AM   #25280
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Finished Tempest, third of four in Kelly Meding's "MetaWars" superhero series, and am moving directly on to Chimera, the concluding volume. Really, the only thing I don't like about these ebooks is the inflexible formatting. I find the main body font too lightweight and the line-height too generous for my liking, but I can't use the Kobo interface's controls to override them. Since I have the omnibus, I expect to spend some time over the weekend tweaking all four novels at once and then pouring the results into the four individual ebooks to make updated copies that match.

Fun fact: Optimizing the code in an ebook is frequently about the same amount of work whether you're dealing with twenty pages or two thousand... so if you plan to turn an omnibus into its component books, optimize first and chop it up once you're done.
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Old 02-02-2017, 11:26 AM   #25281
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I'm reading A Night without Stars by Peter F. Hamilton. The second half of his "Chronicle of the Fallers" duology (set in the Commonwealth universe).

While I enjoyed the back-and-forth of The Void Trilogy, I can't say that I'm loving the vast swathes of story taking place outside the Commonwealth in these two books. They're OK, but they've taken me a long time to read, and I find myself longing for something taking place entirely in the Commonwealth proper. The backwater, lowtech settings of Makkathran/Bienvenido are getting a bit tiresome for me--as is Hamilton's seeming obssession with law enforcement as of late (The Great North Road, Edeard and his constables in the Void Trilogy, and now the detectives and secret police in A Night without Stars).

I know he'll at least make it interesting, but I guess I just had higher hopes for what could very well be the last books of the Commonwealth Universe. Ah, well. I'll always have Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.

P.S. If this does mark the end of the Commonwealth, there better be tons of cheesy cameos from the iconic rockstars of its past/present before all is said and done!
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Old 02-02-2017, 05:39 PM   #25282
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The Deep Forest by Liu Cixin. Part 2 of the trilogy. It's good but the translation is not as good as the first book. In fact, the prose is downright poor in places. Normally I'm pretty immune to the nuances of translation, but in this case the translation is rank. Fortunately the story is so strong that I keep reading it. At the same time, Liu goes on a bit. A well-established Sci-Fi God in China, I guess he doesn't need to worry about word count. But I think less words would have upped the pace. But its a good story, and well worth reading. It's very hard to find something as good in Sci-Fi genre as this these days. Happily the third book is translated by the translator of the first book.
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Old 02-02-2017, 11:46 PM   #25283
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Depends on the tablet. I read most of my comics on an iPad mini 3 (Retina screen) and have no complaints, but doing so on the cheap Android tablet with a screen just as tall (but not as wide - 16:9 vs. 4:3) but without the Retina pixel density would be a pain.
Yeah. I looked at a few samples of the comics in question on my laptop and decided I am not as appreciative of the art as I was thirty years ago.

Instead I decided to reread a book I picked up a few years ago, The Girl Who Would be King by Kelly Thompson. I'm already 42% of the way through.
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Old 02-03-2017, 02:56 AM   #25284
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Next up: Some historical fiction, set in mediaeval Glasgow. The Stolen Voice by Pat McIntosh
Which was excellent. The clues are there! And I get the sense of that the characters aren't just 21st century people in historical costume.

Next up: Anti-Grav Unlimited by Duncan Long. An ancient Baen freebie I picked up in 2008!
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Old 02-03-2017, 06:52 AM   #25285
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Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1)
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My first 5 star read of 2017. Also the first in my large Reread project. Fantastic epic fantasy.
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Old 02-03-2017, 07:05 AM   #25286
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My first 5 star read of 2017. Also the first in my large Reread project. Fantastic epic fantasy.
I read that book years ago when it was a new series. I remember enjoying it, but then I never went back to the series (which is up to, what, 8 books now?)
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Old 02-03-2017, 10:40 AM   #25287
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I had to give up on Murder in the Secret Garden. It was just too cozy even for a cozy mystery.

I'm taking the plunge and starting Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Read these years ago when they first came out but I want to read again to get to the newer trilogy. Good so far. More action than the other book I was reading. lol
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Old 02-03-2017, 12:25 PM   #25288
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I read that book years ago when it was a new series. I remember enjoying it, but then I never went back to the series (which is up to, what, 8 books now?)
The series is complete at 10 books.

I purchased all the books over a couple year period when I found them on sale, but I haven't made the time commitment yet to make it through that much of an epic saga. I made it through "Wheel of Time", and I'm confident I'll get to these eventually. I'll have to clear my TBR pile where I have a about 10 books on hold through two different libraries.
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Old 02-03-2017, 03:14 PM   #25289
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Just finished The Devil's Cup, by Stewart Lee Allen. This is a very interesting book on the history of coffee. The author treks three quarters of the way around the world starting in Ethiopia where coffee plants originated then on to the Middle East (Yemen) and to India and then Turkey. He then goes to Europe where the Turks failed in the attempted attack but left lots of coffee beans behind when they retreated.

From Europe on to Brazil and finally to the US and the beginning of coffee shops there. Book was written 1999 but is still up to date. I'd give it four plus stars.
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I read that book years ago when it was a new series. I remember enjoying it, but then I never went back to the series (which is up to, what, 8 books now?)
Kansaskyle is correct, it is finished at 10 books.

This is my 3rd time reading it and I have to say, probably my most enjoyable.
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