Well, so it's been a while, and in the way of a summer saga of reading, not much has happened. After completing Vonnegut's Player Piano, I moved on to Larry Niven's Ringworld, based on the recommendation of my fine fellow friend Trev. An incredible read, one that is definitely reminiscent of Greg Bear or Gregory Benford. That is, it's heavy on the descriptive technical portions with a noticeable different style of writing in regards to character and plot development. I liked it. The concept of being on a "world" that is a million miles wide and circles all the way around a star at a distance of 90+ million miles makes for great food for the imagination. I was going to continue the series (I think there are three more books), but I had bought a book that I'd owned in the past, and had never made it through, and I wanted to start it.
I speak of Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson; his first book in the Baroque Cycle which is a historical fiction set in three large volumes of over a 1000 pages each. How can you pass that up? Well, I began it with a fervor to make it through, knowing full well that in the past, I'd only made it to the 100th page or so before wanting to read something else. Something was holding me back but I didn't know what. I still don't know, but I've petered out already. I've been captured by a MMORPG, which hasn't let go yet, causing my reading to suffer. I'm going on vacation this Friday, though, so I'll have plenty of time to catch up on my reading.
Life Goal Update: Still working on it.
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