Been reading Oswald Spengler’s Man and Technics. Interesting read so far, reminds me a lot of C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man, about how human scientific rationality ends up sort of out running us such that we turn it upon ourselves.
I have read Jumper series by Steven Gould
I liked it, not for plot, comedy or characters but because it was fresh after couple of years reading mainly fantasy Light Novels.
It got everything at acceptable level and it has been simillary easy read to Light Novels. I think it came at the perfect time for me to distract me from reality.
I would love to read more of Cent’s adventures but realistically there wouldn’t be any conflict that would be a driving force for the plot without introducing cosmic horrors.
Forth book had some confusing moments but it could be just sleep depravation.
I would give it 7/10
Having been sick and in and out of hospital for the last month I’ve churned through a few.
I’ve re-read the City Watch sequence from Pratchett’s Discworld. Which is “Guards Guards”, " Men at arms", “Feet of Clay”, " Jingo" , “The fifth elephant” “Night watch”, " Thud" and “Snuff”
I don’t think I can say anything more perceptive than a thousand reviews have but it was wonderful watching both the development of the main character (Sam Vimes) and the author himself. There’s about 20 years and probably 40-50 books between Guards which was about his 4th book, and Snuff which was released in 2011 while still at his peak and before Alzheimers claimed him.
His writing style becomes more assured but also more incisive, more cutting, and to some extent his anger at the injustices in our world that he satirises in the discworld domain becomes more forceful, more pointed.
Sam Vimes progresses through a beautifully relatable growth cycle but remains a deeply flawed real character. Never a perfectly buffed and grommed character he does strive to be the best he can be.
Highly recommended.
If you’ve never read Terry Pratchett he’s a satirist and humourist. He uses the device of a fantasy world to reflect the issues of our world back to us in a form that allows him to skewer the hypocrisies and mental double think we allow ourselves. All his books are onions. At the first layer is a light read any teenager can get a giggle out of, but there’s always more layers: puns and plays on words, references to “roundworld” (our existence) and philosphical analysis.
Very to the point analysis and just what I loved about the books
