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As for books, reading Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (first book in her October Daye urban fantasy series). Didn’t get much time, but slowly making progress.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
Started Starship Troopers and couldn’t get through the first chapter. Not for me, as warned by others in this sub it was quite dry and a mere inspiration for the movie.
Now I’m on to Neuromancer, which is already much better. First time read for me so no spoilers please if you choose to comment!
Hey! I’m one of the people who commented about Troopers. I don’t fault you for stopping it, there’s a whole chapter in the middle of it where they flashback to gradeschool and all of the kids agree with the teacher that corporal punishment for adults is really the only way to ensure a society doesn’t fall apart
Neuromancer is great though! If you ever feel like you don’t really understand what’s going on that’s pretty normal. It takes a couple of reads and even then a lot of the concepts are abstract rather than concrete
Thanks for your comment! It was just too military heavy and dry. I’m a very visual thinker and the writing was quite dry and didn’t grab me at all.
So far I actually like the ‘dropped in the middle’ effect of Neuromancer, as it can be a bit tiring to read through a ton of explanations early on in a story with so much world building. I’d rather discover concepts through context and ‘living’ in the story a bit first. At this time I’m simply blown away by the fact the story was written over 40 years ago, however it’s still early on so that might change.
Love Neuromancer have the audiobook.
Was that Robert Heinlein? I read almost all his books back in the 70s as a teen. We loved them at the time but in retrospect he seems like kind of as ass.
It was. Interestingly enough, from many of the reviews I read a lot of people love the author but don’t like this book. It made the use of the word ‘controversial’ on the cover description of the copy I have much funnier to me.