Raskolnikov
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Immortality by Kundera, not as good as some of his others but still thoroughly interesting. It is great the way that he manages to make a conversation between Hemingway and Goethe plausible. Fake News alert!
Looking for recommendations please - hard sci-fi/hard space opera and, I guess separately, credible time travel. Not fantasy.
Good:
Asimov
Arthur C Clarke
Alastair Reynolds
Bad:
Dune - wtf?
Judas by Amos Oz is without doubt one of the most thought-provoking books I've read in a long time. Ostensibly a story of a student in Jerusalem who moves into a house to become an old man's companion in the late 50s, listening and debating with him. It's also a love story between a younger man and an older woman, a story of recent Israeli history, a minority plea for a two-state solution and a completely novel take on the idea of Judas as a true believer who never betrayed Jesus but rather had so much faith that he was the son of God, having seen so many miracles for himself, that he engineered the Crucifixion to prove the verity of Jesus. His suicide was therefore an act of despair rather than guilt. A quite stunning book.
Looking for recommendations please - hard sci-fi/hard space opera and, I guess separately, credible time travel. Not fantasy.
Good:
Asimov
Arthur C Clarke
Alastair Reynolds
Bad:
Dune - wtf?
I'm currently reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and I think it''s ruddy fantastic.
i am reading the follow up to shantaram ......it's that boring i only manage 5 pages at a time......zzzzzzzzz
About 50 pages left in Oryx and Crake, which is a lot odder than I was expecting.
Since I started taking the train to work I'm going through books at a financially crippling pace. Need to see if I can get some better protection for them in my backpack and start using the library again probably.
How are you getting along with it, now?
Shantaram is the very definition of epic. Its a lot to get your head around - just remembering what's gone on / how characters link / etc. Is the follow up similar?
Sorry for the delay in responding but I have not been on here for a while.What did you make of this, please??