Reading Suggestions

[Armand]

Going on holiday this week and may actually have time to read! Anyone have any reading suggestions? Preferably something SciFi.

[Alatar]

Depends what you're looking for.  The Hunger Games trilogy is an easy read, and good holiday fare, but not very Sci-fi.  More Syfy really :)

[Jono]

I really liked Ready Player One. That's really the most scifi-y thing I've read in a while.

[Armand]

On Monday, 16 September 2013 13:43:05 UTC+1, Alatar wrote:

Depends what you're looking for.  The Hunger Games trilogy is an easy read, and good holiday fare, but not very Sci-fi.  More Syfy really :)

I think if i had not watched teh movie that would be a great call.

On Monday, 16 September 2013 13:47:33 UTC+1, Jono wrote:

I really liked Ready Player One. That's really the most scifi-y thing I've read in a while.

Finished it last year....is a the perfect holiday read.

 

I was looking at Chaos Walking Trilogy by Partick Ness which seems to be in a similar vein as the Hunger Game.

[Armand]

Any read Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse series) by James S. A. Corey? Seems an interesting Space Opera style series...

[Alatar]

Depends what you're looking for.  The Hunger Games trilogy is an easy read, and good holiday fare, but not very Sci-fi.  More Syfy really :)

I think if i had not watched teh movie that would be a great call.

Well, there's two more books and three more movies coming! :)

[Jono]

I read The Night Circus while I was on holiday. Difficult to pigeonhole, but definitely not scifi. A world with magic, but not high fantasy or urban fantasy. I enjoyed it, but I can definitely see why someone might not - in particular, it doesn't follow a linear chronology.

[Jono]

On Monday, 16 September 2013 16:18:34 UTC+1, Jono wrote:

I read The Night Circus while I was on holiday. Difficult to pigeonhole, but definitely not scifi. A world with magic, but not high fantasy or urban fantasy. I enjoyed it, but I can definitely see why someone might not - in particular, it doesn't follow a linear chronology.

When I say "A world with magic" I mean "Earth, with magic" and beginning in the late 1800s. No supernatural creatures, though.

[Alatar]

Have you read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?  Thats similar.  Reads like a Dickens novel but where magic is real.  Heavy though.  Not my idea of a holiday novel.

[Viigand]

Can't beat a Star Wars book for holiday switch off mode :) Best one I've read recently is 'Darth Plagueis', to whom Darth Sidious was apprenticed. Good read, and would have made a much better movie than episodes I to III.

[Armand]

On Monday, 16 September 2013 15:51:02 UTC+1, Alatar wrote:

Well, there's two more books and three more movies coming! :)

Once I start watching a series of movies or TV shows I find it really difficult to switch media. Have the same issue with Game of Thrones.

On Monday, 16 September 2013 16:18:34 UTC+1, Jono wrote:

I read The Night Circus while I was on holiday. Difficult to pigeonhole, but definitely not scifi.

Looks very interesting..less than £4 on Kindle. Sold. Also picked up the first Partick Ness one so not sure what I'll start first.

On Monday, 16 September 2013 16:41:01 UTC+1, Alatar wrote:

Have you read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell?  Thats similar.  Reads like a Dickens novel but where magic is real.  Heavy though.  Not my idea of a holiday novel.

Yeah I'm off the back of a few heavy ones (The Passage\The Twelve & The North Road) so something easy is a must

On Monday, 16 September 2013 17:41:38 UTC+1, Viigand wrote:

Can't beat a Star Wars book for holiday switch off mode :) 

Been a long time since I picked up a Star Wars Book.... 

 

[Armand]

With easy reads to keep in mind if you looking for somehting

 

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

Robopocalypse - Daniel H. Wilson

The Postmortal - Drew Magary

The House of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel - Anthony Horowitz

 

Interested to see what the Enders Game movie will be like. When I read it it felt like the original Harry Potter in space. I'm pretty sure the movie will pull from other material in the Ender novels.