Red Mosquito

epilogue wrote:I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

epilogue wrote: Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote: Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

I don't think I'm ready for another multi-part series yet, but I'm intrigued by this one.

VinylGuy wrote:anyone here read Ocean Vuong?

epilogue wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote: Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

I don't think I'm ready for another multi-part series yet, but I'm intrigued by this one.

My friend gave me a bag of books. This was one of them. He says he never read the rest of the series because the first one was satisfying on its own.

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote: Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

I don't think I'm ready for another multi-part series yet, but I'm intrigued by this one.

My friend gave me a bag of books. This was one of them. He says he never read the rest of the series because the first one was satisfying on its own.

This is how I felt after reading Dune.

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Lincoln on the Bardo

You dog

epilogue wrote:

epilogue wrote:I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Really enjoyed this book.

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive.

In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a “dark cone” to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light.

Every living thing in Seth’s world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun’s shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead.

But when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.

blueviper wrote:

epilogue wrote:

epilogue wrote:I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Really enjoyed this book.

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

Oh shit you are in for a ride, even if you stop with this first one. I say read all three. What a trip.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.