so-soI really got into the story and characters in book 1 of this trilogy, so I raced right to book 2, and it disappointed me. The first third of this book is just fight after fight between our core group and various people, and fighting takes up a lot of the end, too. Very little is done to advance the story or characters. Really dull, and too long of a book for that! Now I don‘t know if I want to bother with book 3. 🤷🏼♀️
so-soIt's... okay, but some stuff that was meant to be funny was pretty meh, and I guess I felt kind of... “yes, and?“ about it. It wasn't that insightful, at least for someone with my particular academic background (both science and literature).
I think the author should stay in his lane and not foolishly declare that there will never be a pandemic with a high death toll just because COVID didn't kill that big a percentage of the population, or (contrary to actual fact) that the risk of disease decreases with globalisation (it increases).
pickI think we all think about the end of the world or ourselves, if only briefly, at least once a day. We imagine how it will happen—quick, painful? With warning, time to prepare and make final rounds? We consume film, literature, and headlines that talk about it—because we love it. We think we will get the time off from work, lose our worries, lose our financial debts, our jury duties. If we lose these things, will we also lose our sense of⬇️
A conversation with the author about his latest book.
Link to listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-club/id1158913265?i=1000652169412
pick“Everybody dies, everything ends—but not now. Not now.”
This book covers the end of the world as we know it, or at least the end of humanity, and how that may come to pass. Chapters feature ways we‘ll go out like pandemics, nuclear weapons, climate change, overpopulation, war, cosmic events and more. Far from depressing, this was a fun look at the way humans have thought about the end of times over many years, through books, movies, etc.
I did not participate in the Good Omens kickstarter campaign as I wasn‘t aware of it until around the time the accusations against NG became public. If there are any littens who have contributed to the campaign, Terry Pratchett Estate posted an update that NG will not be receiving any proceeds.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens/posts/4302179
pickWhat a great zombie book. Looking forward to reading more in the series.
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pick(2016) Here's a mostly-excellent collection of apocalyptic and postapocalyptic stories featuring protagonists with disabilities. Standouts for me are Stephanie Gunn's "To take into the air my quiet breath," about sisters with cystic fibrosis who survive a global plague; and John Chu's "Selected afterimages of the fading," about an apocalypse in which inattention causes the world to fade. I also quite liked Janet Edwards's "I will remember you."
