Book Recommendations?

So Ancillary Justice is on sale for $5.00 on Audible, but for the life of me I can't figure out what sale this is connected to. It's not the Daily Deal. Sometimes locating Audible's sales can be so frustrating.

Mike Duncan (History of Rome/Revolutions) just released his Marquis de Lafayette book - I'm a couple of chapters in and it's typical excellent Duncan so far

Natus wrote:

So Ancillary Justice is on sale for $5.00 on Audible, but for the life of me I can't figure out what sale this is connected to. It's not the Daily Deal. Sometimes locating Audible's sales can be so frustrating.

They just started a "Replay Sale". New list of stuff on sale daily that have previously been on sale.

Checked out Devolution by Max Brooks from the audiobook library. Judy Greer's narration is painfully bad. Does it get better? This might be the rare book i have to shelve.

MannishBoy wrote:
Natus wrote:

So Ancillary Justice is on sale for $5.00 on Audible, but for the life of me I can't figure out what sale this is connected to. It's not the Daily Deal. Sometimes locating Audible's sales can be so frustrating.

They just started a "Replay Sale". New list of stuff on sale daily that have previously been on sale.

Thank you! That's what it must have been, though even support didn't know.

SallyNasty wrote:

Checked out Devolution by Max Brooks from the audiobook library. Judy Greer's narration is painfully bad. Does it get better? This might be the rare book i have to shelve.

Amy Landon is the reader who drives me nuts. Now I’ll keep my eyes open for Greer as well.

Both books that I heard read by Landon were really good texts so I actually finished both. If there was even a moment of doubt about the text I would have been outa there. The books were Queen’s Gambit and The Cabin at the End of the World.

I just finished King Bullet, the final episode in Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim series. Good stuff, provides a satisfying end to the series. No shortage of horrible violence and awfulness, of course.

Also had the notable feature of being the first new novel I've read obviously influenced by the pandemic: amongst the supernatural badness is a plague not wholly unlike COVID. To me Kadrey did a nice job of using it in a way that fits the world while still feeling relevant. I'm sure this won't be the last novel I read that integrates the theme!

SallyNasty wrote:

Checked out Devolution by Max Brooks from the audiobook library. Judy Greer's narration is painfully bad. Does it get better? This might be the rare book i have to shelve.

I liked the book itself. It's nothing ground breaking but I found it to be a fun read. I can't speak for the audiobook, though.

The Audible Flash sales end tomorrow, Sunday 8/29

Anything good?

FridgeGremlin wrote:
SallyNasty wrote:

Checked out Devolution by Max Brooks from the audiobook library. Judy Greer's narration is painfully bad. Does it get better? This might be the rare book i have to shelve.

I liked the book itself. It's nothing ground breaking but I found it to be a fun read. I can't speak for the audiobook, though.

Yeah personal taste. I thought they did fine with the narration. The story was fun.

It has gotten MUCH better but i really had to power through the first 2 hours.

Just finished The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. A nice, and powerful, break from my usual sci-fi/fantasy reading.

Venturing back into Becky Chamber's lovely Wayfarer universe for the conclusion in the series, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within.

After that, on to Jeff Vandermeer's Hummingbird Salamander. I really liked the Area X trilogy but absolutely loved Borne, Dead Astronauts, and the short story in the same universe, The Strange Bird. If you're looking for a mind trip, Dead Astronauts is great.

FridgeGremlin wrote:
SallyNasty wrote:

Checked out Devolution by Max Brooks from the audiobook library. Judy Greer's narration is painfully bad. Does it get better? This might be the rare book i have to shelve.

I liked the book itself. It's nothing ground breaking but I found it to be a fun read. I can't speak for the audiobook, though.

I need to get back into this series. Really enjoy it. It's Sin City-esque Noire but really enjoy the world. I think I've read 6 or 7 in the series.

bigred wrote:
FridgeGremlin wrote:
SallyNasty wrote:

Checked out Devolution by Max Brooks from the audiobook library. Judy Greer's narration is painfully bad. Does it get better? This might be the rare book i have to shelve.

I liked the book itself. It's nothing ground breaking but I found it to be a fun read. I can't speak for the audiobook, though.

I need to get back into this series. Really enjoy it. It's Sin City-esque Noire but really enjoy the world. I think I've read 6 or 7 in the series.

I think you may be slightly confused here. Devolution isn't part of a series.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Anything good?

Today I nabbed Bleak House, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Lives of The Stoics, and Sophie's World. There were other interesting titles, too, along with the usual stuff.

Natus, also consider Doomsday Book and the Blackout/All Clear duo. Both are in the same universe as TSNotD, but are not nearly as humorous.

Robear wrote:

Natus, also consider Doomsday Book and the Blackout/All Clear duo. Both are in the same universe as TSNotD, but are not nearly as humorous.

Funny that you mention this...I had seen a Twitter thread where people where going crazy over Connie Willis, especially TSNotD, so I snapped up a used copy of Blackout but my wife got to it first. And she really couldn't get into it. So I'm starting fresh with TSNotD and will move on from there.

Doomsday Book is the other one she wrote that won the Hugo AND the Nebula awards. Reading it first gives you more of a grounding in what is going on. Blackout really immerses you in the recent past and some folks might find that tedious. But it's a pretty incredible race against time story.

Robear wrote:

Doomsday Book is the other one she wrote that won the Hugo AND the Nebula awards. Reading it first gives you more of a grounding in what is going on. Blackout really immerses you in the recent past and some folks might find that tedious. But it's a pretty incredible race against time story.

I've heard nothing but raves about her work. I'm very keen to start TSNotD.

If you're familiar with Wodehouse style comedies of manners, it will resonate more with you.

CaptainCrowbar wrote:
bigred wrote:
FridgeGremlin wrote:
SallyNasty wrote:

Checked out Devolution by Max Brooks from the audiobook library. Judy Greer's narration is painfully bad. Does it get better? This might be the rare book i have to shelve.

I liked the book itself. It's nothing ground breaking but I found it to be a fun read. I can't speak for the audiobook, though.

I need to get back into this series. Really enjoy it. It's Sin City-esque Noire but really enjoy the world. I think I've read 6 or 7 in the series.

I think you may be slightly confused here. Devolution isn't part of a series.

Oops, this was meant to respond to MikeSands "King Bullet" and Sandman Slim series post. Sorry about that

Thanks to Mike and BigRed for reminding us about Sandman Slim. I caught up a few years back and then forgot about it. Now I have four new books to binge.

Robear wrote:

Thanks to Mike and BigRed for reminding us about Sandman Slim. I caught up a few years back and then forgot about it. Now I have four new books to binge. :-)

Awesome! I read 1-4 and then waited for 5 and read it around when it came out. Since then, I've only read 6 and I remember finding it somewhat jarring as I was forgetting so many details and plot history. Probably read it about 5-6 years later. I'll need to look into detailed cliff notes when I hop back in.

It’ll come back to you, I suspect.

bigred wrote:
Robear wrote:

Thanks to Mike and BigRed for reminding us about Sandman Slim. I caught up a few years back and then forgot about it. Now I have four new books to binge. :-)

Awesome! I read 1-4 and then waited for 5 and read it around when it came out. Since then, I've only read 6 and I remember finding it somewhat jarring as I was forgetting so many details and plot history. Probably read it about 5-6 years later. I'll need to look into detailed cliff notes when I hop back in.

I dropped off after 6 as my library stopped carrying them on Overdrive, which seems to still be the case. Tempted to dive back in as well.

Robear wrote:

I hope she’s okay…

Bekkilyn has assured me that she is well.

::thumbs up::

Awesome, good to hear. I hope she has lots of giraffes to watch.

I really enjoyed To Say Nothing of the Dog but it took some time for her humor to gel with me.

bigred wrote:
Robear wrote:

Thanks to Mike and BigRed for reminding us about Sandman Slim. I caught up a few years back and then forgot about it. Now I have four new books to binge. :-)

Awesome! I read 1-4 and then waited for 5 and read it around when it came out. Since then, I've only read 6 and I remember finding it somewhat jarring as I was forgetting so many details and plot history. Probably read it about 5-6 years later. I'll need to look into detailed cliff notes when I hop back in.

I think he puts in a quick synopsis in the first chapter of each one to remind you what's going on. They're all generally variations on "Stark saved the world but also terrible things happened."