Ontopic Search isn't broken now NOOBS - New BOOKS thread

I tried the new William Gibson book, Spook Country, but it just didn't do anything for me. Same for Anansi Boys and (so far) American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

I did enjoy The King's Justice, a new Stephen R. Donaldson book (consisting of 2 short stories):
Amazon product ASIN B00SI0B5YY
I also liked The Seventh Decimate, same author:
Amazon product ASIN B06VXGG6TP
I wish my local book seller was open so I could get the follow up.
 
Man, Hyperion continues to be one of most emotionally impactful books i've every read.

The format is such that the first 2/3s of the book is stories from each of the 5 main characters about how and why they believe they came to be where they are (on a pilgrimage which ends in death for most). Theres a soldier, a poet, a diplomat, a captain, and a priest, and each tells their story about the history they have with the planet which theyre pilgrimage is to.

The priests story starts off as a story of cultural anthropology, and attempt the existence of a dying catholic church. A search for christianity in the rest of the many worlds of the diaspora to prove that its real and not a human invention. It slowly morphs into a horror story that ends in an existentially terrifying way. Really disturbing by the end.

The soldiers story is one of love and deception, one of the weaker stories emotionally, but action packed

The poets story is interesting, but I dislike the poet character so i dont have much to say about it

The father's story is just heartbreakingly sad, I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that ive got kids of the age of his daughter. I had to put the book down and go spend some time with my kids after i read it.

All of this is so powerful because of the quality of writing that the author manages to pull off. He's just a fantastic writer
 
Dam Simmons is outstanding.
Reading through The Terror, it was obvious he is a master of the written word.
Each character's dialog is so precise you can almost tell exactly who is speaking without them being named.
The accents and language is exact to the time period the story is set in. Even using words and descriptions not used at all anymore. You can tell who is formally educated and who is not.
His description of arctic exploration and being lost, freezing and starving gave me chills.
He must have spent a great deal of time researching everything he could about the Franklin expedition and life during that time in general before ever writing a single word .
 
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Im slogging through Stephen King's the Stand.

Man i hate him. He just portrays the worst in humans so well and makes everything feel so depressing and dirty.

Felt the same way about It.
 
I wont say
Just read it and let us know your thoughts after
Finished it last night, so glad to be done. 2200 pages may actually be the biggest book ive ever read.

I spend the entire second half the book waiting for the other shoe to drop, but oddly it didnt. Things actually turned out ok in the end.

the Nadine arc was kinda weak. Tom Cullen saves em all though, and its oddly heartwarming how he starts to grow intellectually from when you first meet him
 
Next up ive either got Contact by Sagan, or SevenEves by Stephenson.

I think im going with Contact
 
Next up ive either got Contact by Sagan, or SevenEves by Stephenson.

I think im going with Contact
I may be the only Stephenson fan on here, but even I was unhappy with SevenEves. It is functionally 2/3 of a trilogy in one book.

Loved the story, loved the world, loved the post-apocalypse, left wanting another 1/3 at least. Maybe even another book that length wrapping everything up.
 
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