I had your same reaction to the Three Body Problem, and was just thinking that I probably *ought* to go pick up the next one.
Glad you liked 50% of my recommendations. I have currently stopped at Fairest, though, because I found that book to be so depressing. (And not currently having ANY ROOM for emotionally challenging.) I'd like to finish when i find the emotional fortitude.
My mystery find of the year is Louise Penny and the series that begins with Still Life. Definitely more depth than anything by AMS, and some really nice language.
My non-fiction pick of the year is Weapons of Math Destruction.
Several people have now recommended finishing TTBP, so that'll stay on the list. I think I liked Cinder the best of the series, but since it was an overarching arc storyline and it was interesting and exciting, I had to finish. :) Also I think I read 4 of those books over a long weekend (where I was on vacation and flying cross country, so had plenty of free time).
Oh man, push through the difficult beginning of the second book in Three-Body Problem. The book will blow your fucking mind. The third one is even crazier. This is probably the best trilogy I've read in years, possibly ever.
Thomas Sweterlisch went to CMU -- did you know that? I think he even graduated same year as you, 2000 -- his wife was in some of my English classes and his sister was president of Kiltie Band, and so on. Hence the good Pittsburgh descriptions.
Scalzi had a pre-book for Lock In that was honestly better IMO, an "oral history" of Haden's disease. I liked Lock In but couldn't help but think, he set up this great world, and this was the story he chose to tell in it? I dunno.
I didn't know that before I read the book... afterwards, it was pretty obvious that he was definitely intimately familiar with the area. I think one of the characters has classes at CMU even, and they spend lots of time in the surrounding trails and regions.
The rest of the Sandman Slim books just get better and better. Oh, and I get killed in one of them.
Also, the rest of Cixin Liu's trilogy is worth reading. The translation of the second book isn't that great but Liu's story travels over decades, then centuries, then goes complete off the rails by the end of the third.
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Glad you liked 50% of my recommendations. I have currently stopped at Fairest, though, because I found that book to be so depressing. (And not currently having ANY ROOM for emotionally challenging.) I'd like to finish when i find the emotional fortitude.
My mystery find of the year is Louise Penny and the series that begins with Still Life. Definitely more depth than anything by AMS, and some really nice language.
My non-fiction pick of the year is Weapons of Math Destruction.
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I'll add the others you recommended!
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(Did I use that LJ tag correctly? It has been a decade since I did)
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Scalzi had a pre-book for Lock In that was honestly better IMO, an "oral history" of Haden's disease. I liked Lock In but couldn't help but think, he set up this great world, and this was the story he chose to tell in it? I dunno.
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Also, the rest of Cixin Liu's trilogy is worth reading. The translation of the second book isn't that great but Liu's story travels over decades, then centuries, then goes complete off the rails by the end of the third.
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