Yea, I am thinking the same… 
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Speaking of books, my Texas friend sent me some books lately, all old but good condition. All collections and more than 20 different authors.
Shortestvread ewill be Torn Air by David Hutchinson, mostly short stories. Disappeared my local library so now I hast it home. ^^ The last story was the creepiest to me: Encroachments. Will read it again today and see if it is still scary.
Anyone ever heard of One Side Laughing by Damon Knight? Some stories are like that song you just can’t quite remember.
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I’ll be interested to hear what anyone thinks of it but I don’t know that I’m that enthused. Personally I felt like the MurderBot books ran most of their natural course in the first 4 novellas. MB was still figuring itself out and how it was going to exist balanced on the knife’s edge between freedom and enslavement, the humans MB cared about had to come to grips with realizations such as SecUnits having a face, preferences, etc., and most of the important societal analogies were explored. Some of the sequels were still enjoyable for me: ART added a new relational dimension to explore so I thought that was quite worthwhile.
But by the time we got to Fugitive Telemetry I felt like the important relationships had already been explored, the relational tensions were no longer personal (just sort of general, “here’s how people you don’t care about personally feel prejudiced against MB”), and the plot twist devolved into the author going, “Haha, gotcha, bet you didn’t expect me to do that, suckas!”
Just thinking about All Systems Red is making me want to read the early stuff again, though =)
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Recently started rereading The Eight by Katherine Neville, and absolutely having a blast. Wanted to know if there are other folks who enjoy chess and also may have heard of/read the book and have any opinions on it. It’s a bit lengthy for a novel but I appreciate the way it’s written for both style, composition, and also diction throughout. I am almost done with the book and I also purchased the sequel called The Fire. Will be reading that soon, I am sure.
Edit: just realized that it’s probably the wrong place to write about it here. I saw there were a couple of other book recommendations threads that I completely forgot about.
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but now that you have revived this thread it is your responsibility to choreograph the next book club.
Looking forvard to it:)
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I want to read Cujo and then again, I think it would be pretty sad. Still, it’ll be cool to see the story as written through the dog’s perspective.
*waves to @YQMaoski *
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A welcome surprise to see a post here again; odd how the time passes.
Personally, I used to be big into chess theory but didn’t like the game much, I did love the show Queen’s Gambit though, and never even thought that there might be correspondingly good fiction chess books. I will definitely be checking The Eight out, thanks for the recommendation.
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