Books: What have you been reading?

[Malvolio]

I just started today Foundation and Earth (1986) , the end of the great Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.

It's interesting to compare the changes in Asimov's vision of the future between the original trilogy from the 1940s and the sequels from the 1980s.

[batnbreakfast]

Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

The first Rebus? I loved those novels (started with Ressurection Men and read until Exit Music)
Rankin wrote about John Constantine in Dark Entries

[Malvolio]

The first Rebus? I loved those novels (started with Ressurection Men and read until Exit Music)
Rankin wrote about John Constantine in Dark Entries

Yup, that's the one. If I like it enough, I might seek out some of the later novels.

[The Darknight Detective]

It's interesting to compare the changes in Asimov's vision of the future between the original trilogy from the 1940s and the sequels from the 1980s.

Indeed. A lot of changes occurred in the interim, technological as well as cultural, that forced his hand there.

[Malvolio]

Indeed. A lot of changes occurred in the interim, technological as well as cultural, that forced his hand there.

Yes. What springs to mind right away is the portrayal of women. In the 1980s sequels, the female characters actually do things, rather than just being background characters.

[The Darknight Detective]

Yes. What springs to mind right away is the portrayal of women. In the 1980s sequels, the female characters actually do things, rather than just being background characters.

Yes, that is glaring, but was usually the case in old science fiction stories pre-1960's. One exception is Robert Heinlein, who had his share of tough and capable women in his early stories. Of course, by the '60s, his women tended also to be naked three-quarters of the time and sleeping with their fathers and/or sons, so... actually, I don't know what to say after that.

[The Darknight Detective]

Newest Kindle read: Her Prairie Knight (1907) by B.M. Bowers.

[KOSLOX]

Just started The Famished Road by Ben Okri

[The Darknight Detective]

Latest book I'm reading: Hidden Water (1910) by Dane Coolidge.

[FluffySheep]

I'm now reading a book my wife has been wanting me to read for a long time as it's one of her favourite books...Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

[DebkoX]

I'm now reading a book my wife has been wanting me to read for a long time as it's one of her favourite books...Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

How are you finding it???

I am currently reading 'Winter in Sokcho'

[Crazy Diamond]

Currently reading Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston

[Jim Kelly]

PEANUTS, September 1st, 1973.

[The Darknight Detective]

Now reading Santa Anna's Campaign Against Texas: 1835-1836 (1968) by Richard G. Santos.

[comicscollector]

I finished reading The Death of Grass by John Christopher.
And i started reading recently Everything's Eventual by Stephen King.