ENT Book crew: what are you reading?

[memyselfandi]

Started Hail Mary

Finished Dune. Don't understand the hype at all

Dune gets progressively worse to the point where its unreadable by book 6. I recommend not continuing if you were lukewarm on book 1.

 

[Ariez]

 

[sans_pants]

Dune gets progressively worse to the point where its unreadable by book 6. I recommend continuing if you were lukewarm on book 1.

you mean not continuing right?

 

[DCC]

I read kings the outsider on my hiking trip. Good book. Tried watching the miniseries and it’s trash in comparison

 

[DCC]

Also bought a book on geometry that’s like sociology. Will find it and update later. It’s good

 

[memyselfandi]

you mean not continuing right?

yes

 

[Dylith]

Hit up the Princeton summer sale and grabbed some new books:

 

[Bobby Ballsack]

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians.

 

[Frank White]

Dune gets progressively worse to the point where its unreadable by book 6. I recommend not continuing if you were lukewarm on book 1.

Will not be continuing. Even if u said they got better. It was something I needed to finish to check off in my brain but very middle of the road for me

 

[silkforcalde]

i loved dune when i was 14, i read up to god emperor of dune and felt that it wasn't as good so i stopped there. i remember liking the first three about the same.

reread dune a handful of years ago and didn't like it as much this time around, did not read more than the first.

 

[Cyan Connect]

While I disagree with him politically, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's (retired) book comes out tomorrow. I thought about getting it as his interview with Anderson Cooper sounded interesting tonight. The book comes out 8/3/2021 and is called Here, Right Matters.

 

[Sphygmo]

i loved dune when i was 14, i read up to god emperor of dune and felt that it wasn't as good so i stopped there. i remember liking the first three about the same.

reread dune a handful of years ago and didn't like it as much this time around, did not read more than the first.

the first dune was a 7/10er on a reread as an adult

i honestly only liked the final act bc it was brisk and exciting

i think it only works as an action scifi novel

 

[Sphygmo]

i can't imagine how dull and stupid it becomes trying to flesh that shit out

 

[silkforcalde]

the first dune was a 7/10er on a reread as an adult

i honestly only liked the final act bc it was brisk and exciting

i think it only works as an action scifi novel

yeah 7 / 10 seems about right, maybe a 6.5 or so.

i feel like i loved it so much at 14 because i didn't have a frame of reference but reading it after reading books like hyperion and it just doesn't compare

 

[Sphygmo]

yeah 7 / 10 seems about right, maybe a 6.5 or so.

i feel like i loved it so much at 14 because i didn't have a frame of reference but reading it after reading books like hyperion and it just doesn't compare

hyperion was sooooo much better

 

[Sphygmo]

also does paul really become a sand worm?

 

[Sphygmo]

Top 10 sci fi novels:

Hyperion
Neuromancer
Oryx and crake
Forever war
Slaughterhouse five
1984
Left hand of darkness
Snow crash
Brave new world
The three body problem

 

[Ranger-AO]

started the murderbot diaries by martha wells and these are pretty fun. got the first four and they are all super short books, novellas for sure. all about this android that has somehow hacked itself free of its controls but has to hide that from people and its perspective as a machine created for violence but completely apathetic about everything in general.

Murderbot is a fucking awesome series

Another AI/human team genre (not as good, but still enjoyable) is the two-book series: Lost Solace / Chasing Solace, by Karl Drinkwat

 

[silkforcalde]

flow my tears, the policeman said
hyperion
anathem
tales of the dying earth
area x trilogy
borne
neuromancer
cryptonomicon
broken earth trilogy
the city & the city

if i had to pick one from the series i listed, i'd go with eyes of the overworld from the dying earth, authority from area x, and the stone sky from broken earth (this one is just basically randomly chosen)

gonna have to think about some of the newer stuff but i'm pretty sure i'm gonna put gideon the ninth on my top 10 list at some point

also ancillary justice is amazing

three body problem was fun but wouldn't be on my list but man those sequels WOOFTA

 

[silkforcalde]

Murderbot is a fucking awesome series

Another AI/human team genre (not as good, but still enjoyable) is the two-book series: Lost Solace / Chasing Solace, by Karl Drinkwat

yeah i'm on the second murderbot and i fuckin love this

 

[sans_pants]

Top 10 sci fi novels:

Hyperion
Neuromancer
Oryx and crake
Forever war
Slaughterhouse five
1984
Left hand of darkness
Snow crash
Brave new world
The three body problem

not a single fucking soviet

 

[Sphygmo]

not a single fucking soviet

Still need to give them a legit shot

 

[sans_pants]

Still need to give them a legit shot

you wouldnt put roadside picnic in your top 10?

 

[Sphygmo]

you wouldnt put roadside picnic in your top 10?

Made it about halfway in

I was enjoying it but got sidetracked

 

[sans_pants]

Made it about halfway in

I was enjoying it but got sidetracked

shame