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Alien Surfer

@ JoeClu @lemmy.world

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Each and every one of the creatures we descended from, stretching all the way back to the beginning of life on Earth, has survived by killing before being killed. We are the final product of a string of millions of killers.

  • Eek. I've absolutely no desire. Good luck,

    I've been known to document characters and connections between people while reading a new book. It really helps.

  • Hehe, sounds horrible. I'll put it on my keep away book list.

  • I gave up because I had to keep looking up every apparatus with a foreign name to see what the hell they were talking about. It just got to be too much and was no longer enjoyable for me.

    Loved the recent movie though! I mean like a lot!!

  • Danke schoen.

  • That's humorous.

  • I found the humor in the first several chapters of the first book to be juvenile. The kind of humor you can see coming from a kilometer away so it's just too obvious and not really funny.

  • Agreed. Sometimes I can't understand why some books win hugo and other awards, besides politics of some sort. I mean some have been good, but not that much.

  • Will keep them in mind for future reference.

  • Haha. I hear you.

  • Understood. Curious your opinion on these:

    Fourth Wing (The Empyrean Book 1) Book 1 of 2: The Empyrean | by Rebecca Yarros

    The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia Book 1) Book 1 of 2: Crowns of Nyaxia | by Carissa Broadbent

    A Court of Thorns and Roses Book 1 of 5: A Court of Thorns and Roses | by Sarah J. Maas

    The Song of Achilles: A Novel Kindle Edition by Madeline Miller

  • Awe. Sorry it wasn't for you. I enjoyed it. Very touching for me. I just checked out the follow on book from my local library. I heard it's pretty emotional too.

    What's the most emotional book you've read?

  • I enjoyed 3BP, but you are right.

  • Grrr... I guess I need to work on formatting. Let's try this again

    1984 by George Orwell

    Catch-22 Joseph Heller

    Dune by Frank Herbert

    East of Eden by John Steinbeck

    Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

    Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

    The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

    The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull

    The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

    The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

    LESS NOTABLE:

    Black Sea Gods by Brian Braden

    Mythos by Stephen Fry

    Smallworld by Dominic Green

    The One by John Marrs

    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

  • Book 3 of The Expanse series.

  • The Kaiju Oreservation Society is in my queue. Eager to get to it. Sounds interesting.