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The final book in the Three Body Trilogy, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past)Â does not disappoint. Once again my mind is reeling from the barrage of amazing ideas and concepts that blasted me one after the other after the other as I listened to this book. I don't even know where to begin. If you've …
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Ursula K. Le Guin did, in The Dispossessed, which I just finished listening to. This book was described to me as the anti Atlas Shrugged, which made me instantly buy it without hearing anything else. It holds up to this description by being of reasonable length, by having realistic, likable characters, and by describing ideas …
I just pre-ordered Death's End by Cixin Liu on audible. I can't remember the last time I was so excited for a book, and I have never pre-ordered a book before! It seems I'm always finding a series years after it's been completed. But this one has made me wait painfully long for the conclusion, …
I just finished the Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia E. Butler, and am somewhat shocked that I've not heard of her before now. After reaching the last page and hearing the narrator say 'first published in 1989' I was even more startled. How have I gone most of my life without hearing about this series or author, …
I was keeping a journal. A notebook I would write in every day, a thought here and there, a list of events. I have trouble remembering things that happened more than a few weeks ago, so it's a nice help to my distracted brain to write them down. I was into it for a while. …
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