Recently finished "In the Days of the Comet" by H.G. Wells. My takeaway: utopia is possible if only some miraculous occurrence universally and suddenly changes the nature of humanity. I don't think that's what he was going for, though
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Dulce et decorum est pro comoedia moriOriginally posted by Phantom1313 -
Fantastic spy novel from 1984. Found an edition old enough to not have been smoothed over for modern audiences.
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Forsythe was masterful. I need to get all his stuff in hardcover at some point, especially earlier editions because, as you said, they were too heavily censored as time went on. There has never been anything like "The Dogs of War" since, the closest being Ranulph Fiennes' "The Feather Men" in '91. That's another one where you need the early hardcovers with the maps, indexes, and other reference materials, as the later editions pretended it was fiction to protect the publisher from lawsuits. It lost a lot of its character in the process.
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"Republic of Thieves" by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastards, Book 3)
I'm actually re-reading this. I love the series, the setting, and the characters, but I feel that book 3 is the weakest of the three.
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For most of my life I've never been much of a reader, but I've been making an effort in the past year or so. In that time I've managed to punch through the ADHD and finish a few books. I find it hard to choose what to read because I really am starting from scratch. In the past year I have read a few Hemingway; The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms. Really enjoyed those, especially A Farewell to Arms. That one really left an impression on me, and had me thinking hard about my life. I also read The Road, for which I had seen the movie years ago, but the book had a very strong emotional impact on me.
Just this week I finished Brave New World.
I really enjoyed the quirky vision of future technologies from someone who can only extrapolate from the technology of nearly a century ago. Personal helicopters, the constant use of fragrances, the various concoctions involved in mass producing people. But obviously the substance of the book is much deeper than that.
I read 1984 in High School and again about 8 years ago. While 1984 is often cited by those warning about the current surveillance state and repression of the average citizen, I found Brave New World to be much more alarming, and frankly more accurate to the current trajectory of the world. A very interesting book, it took me a while to really be able to read more than a chapter at a time, but by the time they hit the reserve, I was motoring through it.
I'm looking for something else to pick up, but not sure what yet. If it's not apparent, I really seem to enjoy depressing books.Originally posted by Terry A. DavisComment
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