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

Wed Oct 26 15:46:35 UTC 2016

Tessa,

I personally love Oryx and Crake, along with the other books in the series.
Atwood can delve into the narration a bit, but she creates great characters,
and I like that her plots have a point, but it doesn't feel like she's
pushing an agenda. And over-all, I feel the Oryx and Crake books are great
stories.

Bacigalupi is fantastic. Wind-up Girl is amazing. Start there. The Water
Knife is another favorite of mine by him. My husband and I both love his
books. There sort of dystopian, urban SciFi, and even though they have a
point, they are very character-driven novels.

I don't classify myself as a huge dystopian fic fan, but I will read
anything good. I don't necessarily stick with one genre over another. I
pretty much read everything.

I just finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and loved it.
It's a great story with some interesting characters. Tim Burton just made a
movie about it, so I want to watch it now and see how it squares up to the
book.

I just started Me Without You, the sequel to Me Before You. So far, not as
good as the first, but I'm enjoying it. Both books deal with difficult
subject matter and are probably classified as literary fiction and
disability fiction. Very thought-provoking books, in my opinion. They have
received contraversy, and while I don't agree with the actions of many of
the characters, I don't feel the author is making a comment on disability in
general, but simply telling the story of a single individual. It's about one
person's choices and not representing all disabled people's opinions and
convictions.

After this, I have several creative nonfiction books.

Bridgit

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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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> Tessa,
> 
> 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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