I’ve just started reading The Wager. I’m a sucker for ship based media, and I’m hoping this’ll be no exception.

It’s my third book of the year after previously reading both A Clash of Kings and How to get rid of a president

  • cyberwolfie
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    10 months ago

    Oh, I more or less just finished Blue Mars, but had to take my time getting through it all. But I’ve enjoyed it! Now I just started reading The Ministry for the Future :)

    • pythonoob@programming.dev
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      10 months ago

      Some parts of the mars series are definitely a slog, I feel like that’s almost inevitable with books that change to the perspective of different characters a lot. Some characters just aren’t as interesting as others or they suck as a person and I don’t really care about what they think. But so far in this series I’ve liked the ideas that have developed and I think the setting is really interesting.

      • cyberwolfie
        4·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, agreed. Blue Mars unfortunately had a little more of that the I remember from the other two. But the overall world building is impressive and interesting, and I don’t regret reading any of it.

        It is fitting that it has received a Hugo award, as Les Miserable by Victor Hugo definitely fits into the same category - he could waffle on about very uninteresting things for pages on end before returning to the interesting parts of the story.

        • pythonoob@programming.dev
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          10 months ago

          Lol I haven’t read any of Victor Hugo so I wouldn’t know, but it’s at least been good practice for speeding up my reading by looking at what’s actually important. Kim Stanley Robinson does a phenomenal job of recounting geography (areography) and routes that I unfortunately have no point of reference for, but they honestly matter very little beyond “this is in the north, this is in the middle, this is in the south”.

          Ministry for the future looks good.