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Oh one thing I do like about writing in this time is that often the relationship between men is much more interesting. The way Davies and Carruthers spoke to one another and treated one another feels so much from a different time (because it was) bu…
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This was a case where my ignorance of the terrain probably played a huge role in why I didn't get the book. I pictured Anne of Green gables sand dunes and wondered what the big deal was.
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I felt like the biggest tension was whether Carruthers would be fired for missing too much work when he got home.
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I thought the baddies in the book were just too gentlemanly to really take the threat of invasion seriously, but I suspect that's more about me living in my time today, as it seemed that this was much more serious at the time. I will say that as a …
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Davies was the only guy I thought was interesting, but just because he was a weirdo, but also competent at something in some archaic way that I couldn't wrap my head around. I just finished the book and can't remember many of the other characters re…
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Didn't work for me. I know next to nothing about boats, or sailing, and so this was like a foreign language for large swaths of the book. Like they just sailed and then stopped and then sailed some more and then stopped and then wandered around on l…
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Struggled mightily with this one and I admit I was just skimming by the end. Did not enjoy this one at all. No interest in boats, the drama was not really dramatic, and the characters mostly pretty flat. I didn't care much what happened at the end.
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Managed to snag Riddle of the Sands for 0.99 on Kindle and my daughter is going to let me use it to read the book. Better get cracking! Had two audiobooks pop up on Libby from the library so I am trying to finish those before they need to get return…
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(Quote) Wasn't there an Outer Limits episode based on that idea with facehugger creatures that attack a crew that have crashed on a planet? The guy thinks he has outwitted the aliens but in the end it's all just in his head because the creatures act…
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Sounds great. I love those kind of dynamics in games.
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Never read any of Jeff Vandermeer's books but I had heard that series compared to this book. Not enough time...
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I still have yet to read that book. I watched the film and it was 'ok' but I have heard the book is better. MR Carey wrote the two books and then a third one one short stories set in the that world I believe. He has another series sttarting with the…
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True, but it felt like there was very little actual struggle with what she should do.
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Exactly that! Would be pretty fun.
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I don't have the RPG experience you all have (I have only played a number of play-by-post GURPS games over the years and some D&D with my son in more recent years) but this would make a pretty decent cooperative board game. A train that moves al…
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(Quote) I have not read anything else by Brooks but this seems to be pretty on point, at least for this book. The book fell into a wierd "not quite YA but not quite NOT YA" area for me. I thought the writing was just fine and given that th…
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Oddly, it never felt like the train HAD to run, but rather they kept choosing to do so because people needed a faster way to get somewhere, and also people wanted to have this tourism experience alongside the "wilderness". I never really u…
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Not a great ending. Oversimplified and sort of left us with the feeling that it "all worked out" in the end. Mentioned this is another thread. It didn't feel like a very realistic handling of how a situation would have went.
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In some ways it's good that the book was set in an older time when there may not have been enough technology to really hold back the Wastelands forever. The only surprise to me was that it took as long as it did to "break out". In a more m…
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(Quote) I enjoyed the book but I would have to agree that this mostly sums it up.
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I'm not sure I can think of more dichotomies offhand. I think there were mostly there to create some extra tension to the story. They worked "okay" but I wouldn't say they were a theme really aside from the main division of the Wastelands …
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I felt like most of the decisions being made were mostly selfish and done at the expense of relationships with others. The one with the highest stakes was I guess Weiwei and Elena, and her hiding Elena made little sense to me given the story. I felt…
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Not too much to add that hasn't already been said. I didn't read too much into the names personally, but maybe on a second reading I would have caught more of it.
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I touched on this on another thread, and this only came to me while away on vacation, but the entire third class which seems to have to quietly exist only to allow the wealthier individuals the chance to experience the Wastelands on their own terms …
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I wasn't quite sure what the Wastelands were supposed to be a metaphor of, if anything specifically. The Wastelands gave me a touch of Roadside Picnic feeling with this weird area where the rules don't quite make sense and while it wasn't aliens tha…
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Plutoshine looks quite good. I am surprised it's not more readily available!
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Trying to track down Plutoshine. My typical indie bookstore and library don't carry it!
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I just wrapped it up.
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Would be perfect. Looking forward to a slow read through of this book.
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Would an AI that is not limited to a phsyical constraint, but would also have to deal with it's ultimate end due to the heat death of the universe, have an existential crisis if it really began to dwell on that? While human life is so short, there …