Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Project Hail Mary was amazing. Can’t wait for the movie too.
There will be a movie‽‽‽
Story spoiler:
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“No voice actor for rocky has not been announced” - A voice actor for… musical notes?
I’m super worried they’re not gonna do rocky well. I think the appropriate thing would be to use subtitles, however I doubt normal people would be into that
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I hope they come up with something like the ship computer doing the translation, while rocky beeps and boops around
It’s got Ryan Gosling cast as the main, I think?
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I think I must be one if the few people on the planet who didn’t care for it.
Same here, didn’t vibe with the main character’s constant complaining and whining
The Sandman Slim series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/46424-sandman-slim
And
The Dresden Files series
Dresden files are so good! Dead beat is my favorite
I want another Dresden Files show. That would be great.
Is that the magical hard-boiled detective? I forget the name but I liked that one.
I’m not a big rereader, but at some point I’d like to read through the expanse and the locked tomb again
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
I loved that one.
A few I’ve read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:
- Catch 22
- Infinite Jest
- The Windup Bird Chronicle
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Full 5 part Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy
- His Dark Materials Trilogy (plus the Book of Dust series, if we ever get that last one!!)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Brave New World
- Slaughterhouse Five
Hitchhikers guide part 1 is worth it for the forward alone not to mention the book itself
I believe the last book of dust is slated for this year unless I’m mistaken
Yeah, I think so, but I think it was also slated for 2024, and possibly even 2023! It’ll come, and I’d rather he takes his time to get it right, but still, very impatient! 😁
Yeah, it was at least slated for 2024 at some point. I finished the second one early last year, and as December rolled closer I realized that wasn’t going to happen. Same thing happened to a few others I’m waiting for I believe. Alecto and white wing, dark star. I think Alecto is tentative for this year but I have no idea on white wing, dark star
Just looked it up and someone on Reddit six days ago said BoD3 is finished and will hopefully be out this year! Woop!!
I’ve not heard of those others, will need to check them out 👍
I love the locked tomb books (Gideon, harrow, Nona the ninth, with Alecto the upcoming one). A cheeky description would be lesbian necromancers in spaaaace. I really really like the dark star trilogy as well, but that is harder for me to throw out recommendations for, it can be brutal. A lot of gory violence, and a fair share of sexual violence as well. Black leopard, red wolf and moon witch, spider king each have separate narrators with their own distinct histories, but then their stories intertwine around the same mission and its consequences, and their tales are relayed to an inquisitor who is interrogating them. They are both unreliable narrators and they HATE each other, but there may be more to it. White wing, dark star will be the last one, with a third narrator, and will be more horror focused I believe
Thank you for such detail, they sound really cool.
Also, “spaaaaace”! 😁
It’s 2025 and I’m reading Slaughterhouse Five again. So it goes.
Poo tee weet 👍
Poo too weet
Books. Multiple.
The Practice Effect by David Brin. It’s an isekai (it’s not anime, but it’s an isekai) where things get MORE useful when you use them, reversing entropy.
Sentenced to Prism. MC is sent on a mission to a world inhabited by silicate based life forms. Shenanigans ensue. Mildly autistic coded MC.
Resurrection Inc. The dead are resurrected as mindless zombie robots. Sometimes it goes wrong and the dead regain their memories. The MC does. Hijinks ensue.
edit - more
Mistborn Chronicles - an orphan gets super powers in a very messed up world. A group recruits her for a heist.
Loved Sentenced to Prism! I loved the plot of the Mistborn Chronicles, but I struggled a bit with the audiobook narrator. Maybe I should actually read them…
I read them and flew through them, despite being a slow reader. The second arc though (Wax and Wane) is one of my favorite series ever. It’s set in the same universe, just centuries in the future and is basically a western. They’re great fun to read. Would recommend.
Also, I keep meaning to make time to re-read some required reading books from HS: Where the Red Fern Grows, Call of the Wild, Flowers for Algernon. It’s probably all going to be painfully YA, but I’ve thought about the stories often over my life, and they deserve a re-read.
Easier to say which books I WOULDN’T read again.
The Art of War in the Middle Ages. Just interminable.
There was another book, I can’t recall the name of it unfortunately. It was about ethical non-monogamy but went into such blatantly STUPID territory that I classed it as “should not be set aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force.”
One of the more stupid statements was about how gangbang porn is prevalent (multiple men, one woman), but the inverse doesn’t exist. I was like “Fuck off, you aren’t looking very hard then…”
The Murderbot diaries.
This is also an awesome thread. I see a lot of books I love and a lot that I’m interested in.
The Bobiverse recommendations seem to go hand in hand with Murderbot. Read both series back to back, didn’t know what I was missing.
Kokoro.
Also have vague plans to reread Der Zauberberg
Likely also will reread V. and the Count of Monte Christo at some point.
I’m on my 13th or so read of Blindsight. Think I’ve unpacked it all, finally. I feel like a fruitcake having read it and *Echopraxia" so many times, but damn they’re deep.
Not a fan of all of Watt’s novels, but those two feel like he packed something to think about into nearly every single sentence. Easy read if you want to go fast, or, take your time and dig in. Never read a novel(s) that could go both ways.
Fuck me. Just talking about it is getting me hype for another run.
Blindsight:
"I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck.
To this day, I still don’t know what went wrong.”
Echopraxia:
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. A comic book about comic books, cartoons, sequential art, and art in general.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
I re-read it a few times already, and even though written in the 50s it holds up quite well (except for the total absence of computers). Its a brilliant read. Edit: to clarify, I meant the societal trends he projected are quite fascinating. Also the transition to a post scarcity society. It’s not very prophetic obviously. :)
