Surprisingly, I am still able to pick up a book and read but that could be due to the small fact that Gabby is still only a couple of weeks old.
A couple of nights ago I knocked back the last book in the Wheel of Time series and am in the process of noshing on the prequel novel, New Spring. While I found the books to be good, campy, high-fantasy fun–nothing too serious, just solid escapism–after spending a year in the world of swords and sorcery (some 9,000 pages!) I’m thinking a change of pace and setting is in order.
Here’s four that I’m thinking of tackling:
- The Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov
- Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Where should I start? Dystopia or whaling? Interstellar colonization or positronic mysteries?
Help!
Sadly, I have not read any of those but I’ll go with the atwood since she’s canadian.
atwood was not for me. pynchon has a recent release.
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What was it about Atwood that turned you off? Status as a Canadian possibly?
I might tackle it as my sis-in-law is insisting that I read it. I was thinking of jumping into Moby Dick during early spring as nothing says maritime to me as the last throes of winter.
I’ll have to look into Pynchon as Gravity’s Rainbow sounds interesting.
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If I were at a particularly happy but exhausting point in my life, I don’t think I would appreciate Oryx and Crake, which is pretty depressing, overall, as I recall. Well done, but depressing.
Ah, good point! Depressing would not be a good thing right now, which would likely strike the White Whale from the list. Maybe I’ll tackle The Robots of Dawn and continue down the blissful path of sunny escapism.
Are suggestions not on your list allowed?
Ha! Suggest away and if it is on my Planned Reading list, all the better!
Interesting story re: pynchon at our library. Some of his books were on a protected list which means we have committed to keeping them in our collection due to their “classic” status. Due to lack of circulation, their protected status was contested and I defended them on principle. However, when push came to shove, I admitted that I was not a fan of pynchon and switched my vote to keeping the non-circulating hp lovecraft books on the list instead. Bye bye pynchon!
I’d have to back you on the Lovecraft. While his work feels dated it laid the foundation for countless horror writers plying their trade now.
I’d read Asimov. In fact, _everyone_ should have read a book by Asimov .)
Ha! I just started The Robots of Dawn this morning!
Nice. If you like it, you should read the entire series, especially the two preceding Robots of Dawn: The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun.