What are you reading right now?
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Has anyone here read the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds?
I have listened to the audio books for the first few books, Chasm City and Revelation Space, but I think the way the books are written doesn't suit it well for the audio book format. The story jumps between characters a lot without much acknowledgment to the shift, so it gets to be a bit confusing at times.
I have heard it is a good series, but the audio books have put me off, so I was wondering if anyone thinks they are worth the read in a physical format?
I have listened to House of Suns by the same author, and that was a good "read", so I don't want to throw out such a big series if it is any good.
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How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO TEACH YOURSELF by Mark Collier and Bill Manley
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@nomadic
Alastair Reynolds – „Revelation Space”
tłum.: Piotr Staniewski – „Przestrzeń objawienia”
Oceny użytkowników (User ratings): 8.75 polter.pl, 7,8 (lubimyczytac.pl)
I started reading, didn't stop after the first 10 pages.
And about audiobooks, write rather in https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/263/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now/
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Silverview by John Le Carre
Proctor gets a letter about a breach from Deborah Avon delivered by daughter Lily Avon and 2 yr old Sam on a rainy day. Ex-field agent, Edward Avon is making unauthorized calls on the service's network. Julian Lawndsley sets up a book store away from the big city and is visited by Edward. Julian is accommodating to Edward's ideas and
requests. Julian is the middleman. Edward is the unsong hero. Deborah is the over-song heroin. Proctor is the new Smiley. Silverview is the Avon's abode. -
@existentialist 1984 by George Orwell, Very interesting. Started right after watching the movie on amazon.
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"Immune" by Philipp Dettmer
It's an easy to read description of the human immune system, with plenty of humorous metaphors and images to help explain it well. Lovely illustrations, too.
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After somehow never getting around to it for many decades, finally i've read & just now finished A Tale of Two Cities. To my self-embarrassment, i never hitherto realised that two of the arguably most famous quotations in English literature, came from this great novel...
Right at the very beginning:
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despairRight at the very end:
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
That last, IMO, at least equals what i've long held as a pinnacle of closing lines, being Fitzgerald's immortal “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” in Gatsby.
Furthermore, this poignant prescient opening paragraph in Dicken's final AToTC chapter:
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
Mere seconds of reflection on the countless human horrors perpetrated in all the decades & centuries since he conjured those amazing words, reinforce for me the piercing insights of his grasp of the human condition.
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Just finished Rites of the Righteous by Andrew Villancourt (though forgive me if I mistyped the last name). Sci-fi action, quite good. Though if everyone in the future is so up on Month Python, wouldn't that make The Comfy Chair too obvious?
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Stanisław Lem – „Cyberiada”
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