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I don't necessarily agree with everything, but this book is quite thought provoking.

Just finished and I really enjoyed it, good story, good characters/races. Just started the second book.

Quite interesting so far

I just finished this:



I thought it was very good, a dreary Victorian gothic tale, more downers than uppers in the book. Almost a ghost story.

The reason I say almost is that the author whether skillfully on purpose or just by her natural writing style set scenes where there appeared to be ghosts at times but, the characters seeing them were the non credible people in the book (half mad or insane or very very young). The characters you basically trusted never saw the ghost but saw others acting as if they had seen ghosts. It is the only full length novel this Bronte sister wrote.

They are possibly my favourite Sci Fi books/show. The books are definitely better than the TV show but only because they are deeper and give more insight into the characters.

From the author of the Full Metal Superhero series, which I liked:



The wrong crew. The wrong ship. The right Captain.

Idealistic navy lieutenant Jacob Grimm just wanted to honor his mother’s sacrifice in the last great war. When he’s forced to return fire and destroy a squadron of ships to save his own, he thinks he’s the hero…

Until they discover the ships are full of children.

Disgraced and denied promotion, Jacob’s career is over. That is until the head of ONI needs a disposable officer to command a battered destroyer on the rim.

There’s just one problem, Interceptor hasn’t had a CO in months and the ship is a mess. Worse, the system he’s assigned to is corrupt and on the verge of all-out civil war with the Alliance.

However, no one told Jacob he was disposable.

Pirates, smugglers, and Caliphate spies complicate the situation and one captain with an old ship can’t enforce the law, let alone stop anyone.

The single greatest discovery of all time is about to change intergalactic politics forever. If Jacob doesn’t find a way to succeed, then it won’t just be the end of the Alliance, it will be the end of freedom for humanity.

I started reading "the LotR" in 1970, followed by "the Hobbit". Yep. I am that old. And since then I've read them many times, until they fell apart. I started with the Dutch versions, but later on I read the English versions.

This time I am reading "The Annotated Hobbit". It is printed using two columns per page. The wide column contains Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and a narrow column has Douglas A. Anderson's annotations using a smaller font size. And the annotations are often on the same page or close nearby, which I think is handy.

I love reading Anderson's comments. It adds an extra dimension and makes Tolkien a bit more human. The very first annotation is a lengthy one about the usage of the words "dwarves" and "dwarvish", consistently used by Tolkien. Tolkien admitted that these were initially errors, but it was too late to correct them. Being a philologist one would expect him to change them, but instead he decided to cover it up by dreaming up a rationalization for its usage at the start of his book. In a letter he wrote "I am afraid it is just a piece of private bad grammar, rather shocking in a philologist". Of course to those who later pointed out that "dwarfs" was really the correct term, he could correct them again, because the real historical plural is "dwarrows". And who could really argue with him? After all, I know that he worked on the "Oxford English Dictionary".

There are some color illustrations made by Tolkien and various others. And there are many black and white ones, but a lot of those have a poor print quality. They are almost as bad as old photocopies. Still, I like that these are scattered all around the book and they clearly illustrate the points made.

If you want to re-read "the Hobbit" then this book is awesome. I would not recommend it as a first read, because it would be too confusing. I love it.

So finished the second book "Eyes of The Void" definitely a good as the first one, more characters added to the line up which is a bit of a struggle for my poor memory but a lot more development of characters, factions etc. I struggled to find long lengths of time to read it which meant little bits here and there so I feel "I" didn't do it justice but it was still a very good read. Already started the 3rd book.

Not currently reading but New Short Story's from The Expanse writers, this is the first one and there will be 5 others that look like they will be written each by a different author.



www.fantasticfiction.com/c/james-s-a-corey/how-it-unfolds.htm

Glad you liked it, it really is a great series of books and on TV. I contemplated last night watching the TV Series again, not sure though too much reading on my list to do.

Very sensible, some of the books were better than the TV series version of them IMO especially book four.

Lot's of changes in the TV series (some very good and some a bit confusing) in particular the number of characters in the books was made less in the TV series with some characters and their stories merged to save money etc.

Read the Novellas as you read the books, they are often a microscope into parts of a book or a character.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)