It's been a while since my last post, and I've gone through a couple of books in that time.
First of all, I received and read 12 Monkeys, which was pretty good. I've always been a fan of the movie, and the book explained a couple of things that I hadn't caught before.
I also picked up a copy of Armegeddon 2149 AD: The Seminal Buck Rogers Novel on eBay, which I'll get around to eventually.
Then I forgot that I had bought The Big Empty and instead moved on to Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, which is vaguely post-apocalyptic in that it takes place on a far future earth. Or at least I think it does; the book is pretty cryptic.
I started it a couple times before, but I was never able to get through it. This time I fared better, as I just finished it today. Unfortunately, it's the first of a many book series, which itself is part of a series of series. At the rate I read the first one, it will take the better part of the year to get through them all.
Especially, if, as is the case, I don't immediately start the next book in the series. Instead, I'm moving out of the post-apocalyptic genre for just a while, and giving Contest by Matthew Reilly a try.
It's turning out to be pretty entertainining, and fast reading, too; I read about 130 pages of it today at Starbucks.
First of all, I received and read 12 Monkeys, which was pretty good. I've always been a fan of the movie, and the book explained a couple of things that I hadn't caught before.
I also picked up a copy of Armegeddon 2149 AD: The Seminal Buck Rogers Novel on eBay, which I'll get around to eventually.
Then I forgot that I had bought The Big Empty and instead moved on to Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, which is vaguely post-apocalyptic in that it takes place on a far future earth. Or at least I think it does; the book is pretty cryptic.
I started it a couple times before, but I was never able to get through it. This time I fared better, as I just finished it today. Unfortunately, it's the first of a many book series, which itself is part of a series of series. At the rate I read the first one, it will take the better part of the year to get through them all.
Especially, if, as is the case, I don't immediately start the next book in the series. Instead, I'm moving out of the post-apocalyptic genre for just a while, and giving Contest by Matthew Reilly a try.
It's turning out to be pretty entertainining, and fast reading, too; I read about 130 pages of it today at Starbucks.
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