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What have you been reading this month?

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What have you been reading this month? - SDF Chatter

This month I’ve been rereading Halo: Primordium. Good book but just as depressing as I remember. I’ve also started working my way through the OpenLDAP Admin manual trying to wrap my head around LDAP. So what have you all been reading? What did you think of it?

Dec 30, 2023 at 10:56amWeb
Show threadBeboDec 30, 2023
Rereading Mort by Terry Pratchett. Also And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer.
Show threadagamemnonymousDec 30, 2023
How is And Another Thing? Loved H2G2, but I read several of the Artemis Fowl books as a kid and can’t really imagine Colfer nailing Adams’s style (though I admit the latter H2G2 books began to loose their punch anyway). If anyone, I would’ve accepted Pratchett picking up the series, but alas.
Show threadBeboDec 31, 2023
The jokes aren’t as great, nor is the writing, specifically compared to Douglas Adams’ work. However, it isn’t bad, and pretty OK when consumed in the form of an audiobook. I am mostly reading it because the ending of Mostly Harmless left me sad and I wanted to read more stories involving the characters.
Show threadagamemnonymousDec 31, 2023

I am mostly reading it because the ending of Mostly Harmless left me sad and I wanted to read more stories involving the characters.

I kinda liked the bleak ending, it reinforced the theme of cosmic scale. I liked the Mark II, I liked the whole tidy Beta wrap up. I can’t imagine a very satisfying way to continue past that point.

Show threadBeboJan 1, 2024
The don’t dislike the ending of Mostly Harmless. It’s a very tidy wrap up with how earth finally gets destroyed once and for all, along with the main characters. However, that being said, I was glad to read about their further adventures in the same universe.
Show threadsome_guyDec 30, 2023

Swastika Night (1984 but with Nazis and written before WWII)

The Gnostic Gospels (not quite as interesting as The Origin of Satan, but by the same author)

Sh!t Went Down (one page per day of historical events)

Acquired this month: Gaza Writes Back, A Rome of One’s Own, The Ugly American, If We Burn

Show threadSevereLowJan 14, 2024
Carve the Mark and The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth. Wishing that the duology will have a sequel at some point in the future!
Show threadprodigalsonJan 17, 2024
Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson