Likes: science fiction, genre, comics, also classics and "literature".
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Sad day indeed:
File770: http://file770.com/?p=40158
Reading A Wizard of #Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan were highly influential esxperiences when I was a teenager. "Who knew that fantasy could be like *this*"
David Mitchell on Wizard of Earthsea: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/david-mitchell-wizard-of-earthsea-tolkien-george-rr-martin
Finished reading the Leviathan Wakes (the first book in the Expanse series).
It was fairly good and well done space opera / science fiction thriller. Probably looks gorgeous on TV with modern SFX.
But then I looked up the series in the Wikipedia and when I saw that the author(s) intend the series to be in total 9 books + extra short fiction, I realized "nope, I'm not going to read 8 sequels just to find out what happens next in the Plot".
So given it's R. L. Stevenson's birthday, maybe a chat about Stevenson's works?
My favorite that is not Treasure Island nor Jekyll and Hyde is the short story cycle The Suicide Club [1], especially the first part in cycle.
It's a part of a series where RLS attempts to tell exciting, great, timeless stories not unlike Arabian nights, but in 19th century Europe; I've always wanted to read the rest, too.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Suicide_Club_(short_story_collection)
Finished part II (Walkyrie) in Alex Alice's Siegfried series a moment ago. The retelling of the old Norse saga continues, still as excellent as part one!
