The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Figured I’d give it a go after the Hugos.
I finally finished Piketty. It got more readable towards the end.
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Oh, I’m also reading FilmCritHULK’s Screenwriting 101. Not planning to write any screenplays soon, just really enjoy his writing. Apart from the stupid ALL CAPS schtick, natch.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
Recently saw Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (the story of the ill-fated 1996 adaptation) and was inspired to revisit the original novel.
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The movie version to see is Island Of Lost Souls. Charles Laughton is so wonderfully creepy and the ending is one of the best off screen let your mind fill in the blanks bits of horror ever.
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Have your read his son Nick Harkaway’s books? His latest one is his best by far, has something of pop’s fiery hatred of that whole world.
(ETA: ant I’ve just finished Michael de Abuitua’s ‘The Red Men’ which is excellent).
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I can only read physically big books when I’m on holiday: so for months I’ve been saving up the second volume of William H. Patterson’s biography of Robert Heinlein, and O Lord, it’s fun. I only wish I was reading it within range of my collection.
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I finished The Mirror Empire a couple of days ago and didn’t like it as much as I was led to expect to. On the one hand, yay representation of more than two genders, on the other, boo every character and the narrator getting their pronouns wrong half the time anyway. Outside of that, most characters were so unsympathetic you really didn’t care about whatever disaster was about to befall them. Meh.
Currently reading Pale Queen Rising, which isn’t great literature either (a Mary Sue assassin for the Faerie Queen trying to solve a mystery) but was free.
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Wasn’t aware his son was a writer too. Might have to try that.
I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read of Le Carré, which is basically just the Karla trilogy. I was planning to read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold before too long. Probably should have read that before…
I watched the adaptation of A Most Wanted Man the other day, enjoyed that.
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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. I’m finding it a little slow, but maybe I’m jaded. Good writing, though.
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His two Smiley non-spy books are also quite good: A Murder of Quality and Call for the Dead.
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Michael Caine of course.
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Oh yes, I know it well. I actually prefer IoLS to the original novel.
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The final collection/issue of Fables showed up at the library today.
Used to love this series, but it kinda lost me a while back, when it started getting pointlessly sadistic towards its own characters.
Thought I may as well see it through to the bitter end though.
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No spoilers! I haven’t read past the daughter returning from the island of murderous toys .
Yeah, I really hated that one. TBH, I think the series ran out of steam after the Adversary was beaten. And the spin-offs weren’t great. The Cinderella ones were kinda fun, in a No-one Lives Forever vein.
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Well, Fables was…an ending, I guess. So there’s that.
Austin Grossman’s Crooked just came in, so that’s next. I wasn’t a huge fan of You, but, well, Nixon.
I hope to read Tad Williams’ final Bobby Dollar novel soon. More excitingly, he has a new Osten Ard book coming out soon.
Gah. Still falling back to reading the same genre fiction (by the same people) I’ve always read.
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Continuing the discussion from TOM THE DANCING BUG: When Gun Proponents Go Ballistic:
This is good. A bit dated, but rapidly churning through its initial premise to go weird places…
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Which odd chapter? Do you have a link so I don’t have to shovel clams for it?
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I am reading a homoerotic victorian vampire novel (yes a real novel, not a tumblr fan fic!)
Its really good, if you like homoerotic victorian vampire novels! 
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1, 3, 5…?
I read the whole thing eventually. Just took a while. Not really light bedtime reading. The last couple of chapters were good because Piketty started offering ideas.
(Time for a new book club selection?)
Actually, I am quite enjoying Crooked. Also, The Shepherd’s Crown came in, so that’s next. Not especially looking forward to it, Raising Steam was a mess and I don’t really like the Tiffany Aching books much, but I couldn’t very well not read it.
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