Good Book Thread

[Blackbeard]

@RichH

@eicca

Anyone here read the Alex Rider books? I’m going through those again in preparation for the TV series launch in the US (it’s already out in the UK and fans are going bananas).

Sure they’re “kids books” but they’re so fun. Killer premise. Alex is 14 and raised by his uncle who covertly trains him in spy skills throughout his entire childhood. Uncle dies, MI6 ropes Alex into going on missions and they just keep screwing him over and feeding him lies about his past. So excellent. I’m going nuts waiting for the show.

I’ll have to give that a go, it pops up on the Amazon Prime recommendations.

Recent books, The Martian by Andy Weir sciences the hell out of finite resources way better than the film. The film was good, but a mess by comparison.

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob), a series by Dennis.E.Tailor

Read that earlier this year, excellent book.
Read the Martian shortly after this, was good but I just finished Project Hail Mary and liked it better.
Have Bob in my kindle TBR

[Blackbeard]

@Lightbringer

Wanted to, but never got a chance to, read the TekWar series (Shatner).

I read first one in high school about 30 years ago….not the greatest but wasn’t awful, but somehow I think you want to read it to see if its overly Captain Kirky?

[Photon_Master]

I’ve actually been meaning to read the Star Trek novels for a long time. I bet Wrath of Khan would be pretty wicked. “ He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates 2 dimensional thinking.…”

[Lightbringer]

@Blackbeard

@Lightbringer

Wanted to, but never got a chance to, read the TekWar series (Shatner).

I read first one in high school about 30 years ago….not the greatest but wasn’t awful, but somehow I think you want to read it to see if its overly Captain Kirky?

I vaguely recalled the series and movies (Shatner was in both), and wanted to czech out the source books.

[jf_smm]

Not bragging

I picked up a first edition Dune at a garage sale a few years ago for pennies. When I noticed that was the case I was afraid to mess it up so I still haven’t read it.

Love the movie so one of these days I’ll have to get a copy of the book I can actually touch.

[Photon_Master]

@jf_smm

Not bragging

I picked up a first edition Dune at a garage sale a few years ago for pennies. When I noticed that was the case I was afraid to mess it up so I still haven’t read it.

Love the movie so one of these days I’ll have to get a copy of the book I can actually touch.

That’s incredible! That’s gotta be worth at least $1,200. Maybe way more. Not that you’d ever want to sell something like that

The book is incredible. I’m a huge fan of the original movie too, but I think it was a box office failure at the time.