One was a serious attempt, but the style just didn't fit entirely, and it lost tone. I'm excited to reread the novel though, as it's been a decade. I'll start once I get through the onslaught of early English poems and Chaucer segments I'm working on right now. Tough to get through that stuff when I'm excited to read Adam's novel.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. Man was he way ahead of the game when it came to stuff like AI, human colonies leading to physical and social differences, realistic interstellar travel and a bunch more. He wrote about this lunar colony three years before the moon landing!
By far my favorite of his novels. I either absolutely love him, or hate him. No in between. I also quite enjoyed the prison dialect, though it took a few pages to get ahold of.
I thought it was because the MC was Russian at first, lol. Ain't no Russian I ever heard was named Garcia!
Yes, I did. I think I liked the A Grain of Truth short story best from it, but it is a twist on Beauty and the Beast, which is one of my favorite fairy tales. Started up Blood of Elves today. Haven't gotten very far yet, just read the first chapter.
The whole series is almost a parody of fairy tales. It continues on through the Saga and all the way through the games.
I am an eternal fan of Ender's Game, which I reread yet again last week. And, after watching the movie, I read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which I found to have an interesting POV/voice after the movie.
That's next on my Heinlein list. I can't wait. Two greats. I plan to reread the Ender series sometime soon. I miss it, and he doesn't release books fast enough for me.
See I fell into the trap that Orson Scott Card himself identified: I was rather young (12) when I read Ender's Game for the first time and appreciated the characters as a reflection of my 12-year-old self - and therefore I never felt much inclination to read the sequels, which were about boring old adults. You like them, though? I'm thinking of borrowing Speaker for the Dead as soon as my library reopens!
I've never read the sequels. I think I read somewhere that they weren't as good as the first and I never went any further. Perhaps he had a spanish mother.
I think I just took someone's word for it and never explored for myself. Perhaps I'll correct that some day.
I just looked up the whole series, and wow there are a lot more books than I realized. I think I only read from Ender's Game through Children of the Mind. I guess my reading list just quadrupled in size.
Oh wow! Yeah, you have to keep going. Don't skip the Ender's Shadow books. All that Bean stuff is great. So are the Formic Wars prequels. Man, I envy you. I think I'll restart the series sooner rather than later.
I feel your pain, I keep getting involved with really good series and my list gets longer, again. I hate all of you. Now I'm going to have to look for myself.
I'm re-reading Watership Down, for our forum Book club. It's the current selection. https://www.writingforums.org/threads/july-wf-book-club-poll.166117/ I read it a LONG time ago, and have more or less forgotten what happened in it, so this is like a 'first time,' for me. I'm also continuing to read The Third Eye, by 'Lobsang Rampa'—who turned out to be a plumber from Plympton (near Plymouth, in England.) It's really well-written as a novel, but it's a mistake to assume any of it reflects actual Tibet. The author was an interesting fellow, who claimed to BE Lobsang Rampa, a Tibetan lama, so the story was taken as an autobiography when it first came out. "After his true identity was revealed to the world at large he maintained that although he still had the body of the Plympton plumber, that person's spirit had departed and Rampa's spirit had taken up residence. This happened during a momentous fall from a tree as he was photographing an owl," according to the person who recommended the book to me. Methinks Mr Rampa should have been a politician!
Wait. His identity had to be revealed before people accepted the book hadn’t been written by a lama??
