What Are You Reading 2015?

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  • monospaced0

    Love me some sci-fi!

    Last year I read most of the Foundation series, which is pretty amazing and still very relevant today:

    Recently trudged through this absolute pile of shit:

    Finally revisiting an author I'm a fan of, who can write well:

    • NO! Seveneves is shit?! Fucksticks, Id recently put it on my list. Do you like his other work?detritus
    • I like his other work, and honestly, Seveneves was easily one of the worst books I've ever read. I wanted to like it, but it was just awful.monospaced
    • cool for 1/2 the book, about 3/4 way in I wanted to give up, but reluctantly read to the end and threw it on the floor in disgustmonospaced
    • Oh, balls. Thanks, I guess. I'd hoped perhaps you'd not read his other stuff and were simply put off by his style :(detritus
    • Should've been obvious, I suppose - that branded N is alarmingly close to Nespresso branding!detritus
    • Honestly, it didn't feel like I was reading a Stephenson novel. Idea was cool, but the execution was lackluster, and reading it became a chore at the endmonospaced

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