Book three of 2016: Seveneves by #nealstephenson. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (17/366)
Books
I read…a lot. Here’s where I ramble about books and printed media.
It’s this year’s #PKDickAward nominees! I have until March 25th (Friday at #nwc39) to get these read…and the first trend I’m noticing is that there are no small books this year! (Okay, Nexus and Crux aren’t nominees, but Apex is, and it’s the third book in that trilogy, so need to read the other two first.) Looking forward to getting through them all. (14/366)
Book two of 2016: Vol. 1 of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (12/366) #clivebarker
Book one of 2016: Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/366) #chuckpalahniuk
My thanks to whomever put out the table full of books at today’s #nwc39 meeting. Got some great additions to my collection. Particularly fond of the #StarTrek #TOS “choose your own adventure” (“Which Way Books”) book!
Just got another neat Kickstarter project – a collection of comics by Native American creators. Looking forward to reading it! #moonshot
More goodies! The movies are birthday presents from Prairie’s mom (we’ll have to let her know what she got me), the book I’ve had on preorder for months. Our plan is to find time to watch the Jurassic Park trilogy before seeing Jurassic World. No real reason for the Pirates series other than that we enjoy them. And Stephenson is probably my favorite current SF author. Good thing this quarter is almost over!
Violence Never Solves Anything?
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.
Got asked to help out at the book sale for an hour. Left with another stack. Imagine that! More SF, but also some nonfiction “history of SF”, one by Lester Del Rey, the other Frederik Pohl’s memoir. #moarbooks
Four old SF anthologies, a mid-70s printing of Clockwork Orange, a Star Trek novel, and a DVD collection of four Dracula films…all for $8. Gotta love campus book sales!
