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Cassie - Sci Fi Reading list please

I really don't know, I haven't followed the KJA hate in a long time. IT GOT SO FUCKING BORING. I honestly don't know how people maintain that level of agitation for so long.
 
FUDDLEMIFF did you think the third Expanse book got a bit bogged down in all the fighting stuff at the end (and characters thinking "WHEN WILL THE KILLING END?" again and again.)
 
YES

In fact, pretty much all I remember about the book is what seemed like endless days of reading about a battle I didn't care about.

I think the highlight of the series so far is Avasarala's characterisation. She's way more interesting than any of Holden's crew, but she's only in one book.
 
I started to read that earlier but i couldn't finish it. I think I have outrage burnout.
 
I'm reading Snow Crash. It's excellent but feels a little like it's written for the screen. That feels churlish though because I am genuinely enjoying it.
 
Science fact rather than fiction, I'm reading Chris Hadfield's autobiography. He decided to become an astronaut when he was 9 and worked tirelessly to become one for decades, so it immediately makes you feel like you've wasted your life away, but he does have some very constructive advice for those of us who are stuck on terra firma.
 
Snow Crash did seem like a movie or something, it was very fast paced at times. I hope you read The Diamond Age someday.
 
I'm reading Congo, because even though all Michael Crichton books have the same formula (horrific killer virus/dinosaurs/monkeys on the loose, only geniuses who are reluctant to help can survive) I liked the movie. And it's quite a short book.
 
Congo had the most ridiculously rushed ending I've ever read. It was as if the book was being printed on the last ever tree and they were worried they'd run out of paper too soon.

So being a glutton for punishment it seems I went on to read Michael Crichton's Sphere. Another one I liked as a movie, but not as a book. The characters were quite well drawn, but for a 200 page book it really took a long time to get going, and once again had an overly swift ending. It was also very predictable, and not just because I've seen the film version. The characters ask deliberately stupid questions so they can be astonished by the answers.

Now I'm going to read I, Robot and probably complain that the ending goes on forever.
 
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