[stylist] {Spam?} What are you Reading Right Now?

[Tessa]

Hi Bridgit

Thanks, I've read Atwood's oryx and Kraik? which I found rather on the overly wordy and long side but very thought provoking. Personally I thought the ending was excellent where as a lot of people were ticked off because it was so inconclusive. I read several of her other books including the blind assassin which was very odd but I enjoyed it. Haven't read any Paolo Bacigalupi as yet. I think john wyndham hooked me back in high school reading the crysalids AKA rebirth, and his day of the triffids where most of the world goes blind and meat eating plants with the capacity to sting their next meal are trying to take over the world. Books like Alas Babylon Pat Frank, make you think while the james axler deathlands series provides a thin vineer of survival story as a cover for a great deal of violence. I'm not much into the violence, the actual story of how people survive and make do is much more interesting.
Tessa




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Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 10:57 am
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> Tessa,
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> If you like dystopian fiction, try Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bacigalupi. I
> highly recommend both.
> 
> Bridgit
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> Hi all
> I just finished reading the book Powerless by Tim Washburn, I have to say I
> was quite disappointed. The story premise is that the sun emits a massive
> electro-magnetic pulse which strikes the northern hemosphere creating world
> wide or at least northern hemosphere wide devistation. I enjoy reading so
> called appocolypse fiction other than the zombie appocolypse, perhaps
> someone can explain why the undead have suddenly become so popular. But that
> being said, the author thanks his agent and editors at the publisher but
> personally the writing leaves a bit to be desired, one quarter of one
> chapter is in first person, which is really weird since the whole rest of
> the book is in third. The author follows the stories of several very
> different people which is very interesting but in at least one case he
> brings up a scenerio and then leaves us literally hanging. He has a second
> book Cataclysm about the super volcano under Yellowstone, Harry Turtledove
> did an excellent super volcano pair of books, I don't know if I want to read
> Washburn's, on the other hand LOL I figure even bad writing can teach me
> something, like what not to do. I find so much missing in this book.
> Nanowrimo is coming, perhaps I'll just have to write my own LOL.
> Tessa
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