I don't know if I can go on, this is pretty horrendous. It's more meretricious than Shindler's List. It's good to see a protagonist with 'light' autism/asperger's though, there aren't too many of those.
I also just read Flowers for Algernon, which was pretty feelsy. I think it works better as a short story, but the ending/last third still destroyed me.
Just finished The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It was a fun little detective novel. I might read some more of his stuff at some point.
Today I got a Doctor Who novel called Ten Little Aliens by Stephen Cole. Apparently it's a take on Agatha Christie's (*ahem*) Ten Little N***ers. I'm looking forward to reading it.
Last night I finished Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens by Stephen Cole. It took me a while to get into it, but it built up to a very good and very exciting climax. It was much darker and bloodier than the average Doctor Who story, which was a bit unexpected, but it was okay. And one chapter was done in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. I was a bit skeptical, but in the context it worked beautifully. Anyway, at some point tonight I'm going to start reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick.
I've just started a few, some course texts:
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (very good. Surprising! Less pretentious than To the Lighthouse)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick (forced to read, don't really like sci-fi and still, after a few chapters, not convinced)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (the same as when reading Russian fiction, lots of unfamiliar names and words to adjust to at first, and a VERY BIG BOOK which I aim to hide in for AS LONG AS I CAN.)
But, I'm on a dystopian fiction kick at the moment and the plot of the Divergent trilogy has definitely kept my attention and I am very curious to see how it's all going to end. So far, this series is one of the better dystopian fictions I've read.
Can I recommend The Last Policeman by Ben Winters?
It is set right before an inevitable asteroid collision and does one of the best societal breakdowns I have ever read. Get in now before the last book comes out, it's exciting to be part of a thing that is happening in the moment.
It is, I found out when I went to look for it!
Looking forward to reading it now, I looked up a short synopsis online and it looks really interesting.
Any other recommendations are always welcome, btw.
I love urban fantasy, elfpunk, some science fiction, some fantasy, some crime/thrillers...
Those are the main genres but I read loads in between!
I finished The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick the other day. It was good, but I'm not sure I understood the last third or so. It was weird.
Anyway, since then I've been reading Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
rereading House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielwski now that the semester is over.
“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got
to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.” Ray Bradbury in Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Last Man by Mary Shelley for my Romanticism module.
It became like a sort of prison. Encased in a silver shell, words so full of bleeding need spilled like drops on dry leaves. And all the while laughter prevailed a long way from here. Nowhere land, nowhere time, nowhere space.
As I am incapable of reading only one book at once, I'm also currently reading Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez
“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got
to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.” Ray Bradbury in Something Wicked This Way Comes
It became like a sort of prison. Encased in a silver shell, words so full of bleeding need spilled like drops on dry leaves. And all the while laughter prevailed a long way from here. Nowhere land, nowhere time, nowhere space.
