I’ve just started reading The Wager. I’m a sucker for ship based media, and I’m hoping this’ll be no exception.

It’s my third book of the year after previously reading both A Clash of Kings and How to get rid of a president

  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Oh, I more or less just finished Blue Mars, but had to take my time getting through it all. But I’ve enjoyed it! Now I just started reading The Ministry for the Future :)

    • pythonoob@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      Some parts of the mars series are definitely a slog, I feel like that’s almost inevitable with books that change to the perspective of different characters a lot. Some characters just aren’t as interesting as others or they suck as a person and I don’t really care about what they think. But so far in this series I’ve liked the ideas that have developed and I think the setting is really interesting.

      • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, agreed. Blue Mars unfortunately had a little more of that the I remember from the other two. But the overall world building is impressive and interesting, and I don’t regret reading any of it.

        It is fitting that it has received a Hugo award, as Les Miserable by Victor Hugo definitely fits into the same category - he could waffle on about very uninteresting things for pages on end before returning to the interesting parts of the story.