Not much to say about it. It's bad guy being a bad guy and Reacher being Reacher. Some interesting side characters, would love to see if it means any character development or not.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Stopped reading "children of time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it wasn't the kind of book for me. I am now reading AE van Vogt's "the universe maker". Not his best book, but the fast pacing is nice. It's also an old Dutch translation, so the archaic language use is... different. I started listening to Matt Dinniman's "the bedlam bride" on my commute, I got fed up listening to the radio. I read the previous books in the series, but so far I think it lends itself better to listening. And I've read the short story "the marching morons" by Cyril Kornbluth during some down time this week, which I liked. Didn't know this writer, so might check out some of his other work.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What didn't you like about Children of Time? I haven't read it myself yet, but it's one of community favourites.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I read about a quarter of it. It was a lot of back story and history building. I personally like a more in your face story telling, where the back story is unveiled as you go along. I'm also not so concerned about the technology behind it all, though that wasn't so much that it was distracting.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 4 days ago

Ah okay. Thanks for the response.