What Else I've Been Reading
I guess it's about time for what have turned out to be semi-annual "what have I been reading" posts.
Since we last spoke, I've read a few PA novels.
First was I Am Legend. I liked it, but I thought the ending was strange. I had seen the Vincent Price movie version recently, so I kind of knew what was going to happen, but the book didn't really explain it better than the movie did. But overall it was ok.
More recently, I read through the a couple of "young adult" trilogies, both of which I really liked.
The first was the Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. I also read the fourth related book, Extras. If you can suspend belief about the hoverboards, then the rest of the story is pretty good.
The other one was the Fire-Us Trilogy. This one was meant for slightly younger readers than Uglies, but it takes place in the very near PA-future, which is the sub-genere of PA fiction that I really love. The story is just 5 years after the Fire-Us has killed everyone older than the onset of puberty, and it's really interesting to see how children would grow up and how much they would know about the world if it ended when they were only eight or nine years old.
It even had escapes from religious whackjobs, which is enough to make any PA story great. Overall, highly recommended.
I'm currently reading Starcross
, which isn't PA, but it is by Philip Reeve, who wrote the Mortal Engines series. That one is PA, but I've only read the first one so far. I liked it, so I'll definitely get to the rest sometime.
Next on my list I think will be Darkness and Dawn by Andre Norton. I've got it on loan from the library, and mean to read it if I don't run out of time. I may start it and see if it's worth renewing.
I also picked up a copy of The Hopkins Manuscript on Ebay. I don't really know how good it's supposed to be, but it was written in 1939, and I tend to like that old style of writing. We'll see how it goes.
Since we last spoke, I've read a few PA novels.
First was I Am Legend. I liked it, but I thought the ending was strange. I had seen the Vincent Price movie version recently, so I kind of knew what was going to happen, but the book didn't really explain it better than the movie did. But overall it was ok.
More recently, I read through the a couple of "young adult" trilogies, both of which I really liked.
The first was the Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. I also read the fourth related book, Extras. If you can suspend belief about the hoverboards, then the rest of the story is pretty good.
The other one was the Fire-Us Trilogy. This one was meant for slightly younger readers than Uglies, but it takes place in the very near PA-future, which is the sub-genere of PA fiction that I really love. The story is just 5 years after the Fire-Us has killed everyone older than the onset of puberty, and it's really interesting to see how children would grow up and how much they would know about the world if it ended when they were only eight or nine years old.
It even had escapes from religious whackjobs, which is enough to make any PA story great. Overall, highly recommended.
I'm currently reading Starcross
, which isn't PA, but it is by Philip Reeve, who wrote the Mortal Engines series. That one is PA, but I've only read the first one so far. I liked it, so I'll definitely get to the rest sometime.
Next on my list I think will be Darkness and Dawn by Andre Norton. I've got it on loan from the library, and mean to read it if I don't run out of time. I may start it and see if it's worth renewing.
I also picked up a copy of The Hopkins Manuscript on Ebay. I don't really know how good it's supposed to be, but it was written in 1939, and I tend to like that old style of writing. We'll see how it goes.
posted by DoomDude at 9:21 PM
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