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[extrapenguin]

Since I've read two books already this month and will probably try to keep up the book a weekend habit:

Poll #30778 Reading material

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What book(s) should I read next?

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Stephen Baxter: Xeelee (omnibus edition)
0 (0.0%)

Cixin Liu: The Wandering Earth
3 (23.1%)

Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace
8 (61.5%)

Jane O'Reilly: Blue Shift
1 (7.7%)

Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Cosmos & The Long Utopia
4 (30.8%)

Alastair Reynolds: Aurora Rising
0 (0.0%)

Alastair Reynolds: Century Rain
0 (0.0%)

Alastair Reynolds: Revenger
1 (7.7%)

Peter Watts: Blindsight
4 (30.8%)

(The Martine and Baxter are sequels; I read the Martine original semi-recently and the first three Baxter books zonks ago. I've enjoyed other stuff by Reynolds. I did read The Three-Body Problem and did not vibe with it at all, but I acknowledge that might've been the translation or just the nature of the book.)

Has anyone read any of the above? Opinions welcome, though please no spoilers.

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I've read A Desolation Called Peace and quite disliked it / thought it was not a very good book, although in the interests of full disclosure, I was also somewhat disappointed by A Memory Called Empire. But with 'Memory', I thought it was a decent book which I had gone into with overly inflated expectations and that was a big part of my disappointment. I was hoping the sequel would build on the things I enjoyed or was intrigued b in book 1y. The sequel did not build on the things I had enjoyed, and instead convinced me that some things I was willing to accept were just part of the POV in book 1 were writing flaws. Most people do seem to like these books more than I do, but I think everyone on my flist who's read the sequel thought it was less good than the first book.

[extrapenguin]

Noted. I found the first book enjoyable enough of a read, but I think I missed a lot of the hype and it's been a while since I read it.