What are you reading?

No Mellissa, not everyone gets book recommendations from the cinema, it’s a very bad idea, cinema fucks up books.

I am currently reading the last in the Becky Chambers sci-fi wayfarers series, brilliant.

A refused to watch the Martian for ages because the book was excellent.

The movie is ok, I guess.

People with highly developed visual imaginations will always prefer books and will always be disappointed when things in the movie don't look like how they imagined them while they read the book.

the andromeda evolution. just started it so hopefully they dont shit on my man crichton's legacy

well they didn't shit on his legacy imho but it is definitely a book that did not need to be written...

This is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) by Ed Winters

A good overview of the arguments and realities of the meat industry, but so far, I'm wishing that the author delved a little deeper on each point before moving on.

A good starting point of people wondering why vegans feel the way they do, but not particularly in-depth.

Final thoughts after having finished - it's a good introduction and quick reference point to most of the most common arguments against veganism, as well as providing information that I didn't know. I don't know whether it would convince a meat-eater, but I'll be keeping it on my bookshelf for future reference.



For a change of pace, my next read is Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the sequel to Children of Time which was an SF book following an artificially uplifted intelligent spider civilisation. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes.

I are mostly reading books with silly names at the moment, this wasn’t a conscious decision my back brain took over and that was that, until my goodwife said “Why have you took to reading stupid sounding books?”
I suppose it started with Christopher Brookmyre, novels. Satirical and caustic with covers bearing names such as All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye, I thoroughly recommend them if you like noir detectives with humour.

Then it was, The Island of the Sequined Love Nun, which I found in a second hand store and features cargo cults and a talking fruit bat, but Christopher Moore pulls it off enough for me to order The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove , Which if anything is even better.

And I’ve just finished, Zoey punches the Future in the Dick, the sequel to Futuristic violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong an American Future humour writer, which are also quite entertaining, but I am about to put in an order at Awesome books . com and I have promised myself to get serious, but then there’s Jasper Ffordes “Nursery Crimes” series that does get good reviews, sooo.

I are mostly reading books with silly names at the moment, this wasn’t a conscious decision my back brain took over and that was that, until my goodwife said “Why have you took to reading stupid sounding books?”
I suppose it started with Christopher Brookmyre, novels. Satirical and caustic with covers bearing names such as All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye, I thoroughly recommend them if you like noir detectives with humour.

Then it was, The Island of the Sequined Love Nun, which I found in a second hand store and features cargo cults and a talking fruit bat, but Christopher Moore pulls it off enough for me to order The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove , Which if anything is even better.

Christopher Moore is great. Loved the Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, though it's been years since I read it. Also really recommend A Dirty Job about someone becoming a Death and Lamb, a telling of Jesus' early years

I shall keep an eye out for them.

I have finally done what no one has ever achieved. I finished reading the Silmarilion.

Not bad. Though the concept is a lot more interesting than the execution.

I have finally done what no one has ever achieved. I finished reading the Silmarilion.

Not bad. Though the concept is a lot more interesting than the execution.

I'm reading The Lord of the rings again.
Morgoth is based on Lucifer but I'm not sure if Tolkein ever said it.

he rebuked Melkor, praising his strength but reminding him that, as an aspect of his creator's thought, anything that he could bring into being ultimately had its source within Eru himself. As such, even the Discord would redound in the end to the glory of Eru's work.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Morgoth

Imagine getting dabbed on that hard.

Tolkien said it.  Not exactly directly.  He told his publisher when he was writing the Silmarillion that he's going for a Biblical feel with the writing style.

Checks out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Middle-earth

Some people think Tom Bombadil was Eru in the flesh but I'm more fond of the theory that's he's just Tokien.

It probably has to be one of the two. Either existing before creation or existing before Tolkien invented Middle Earth. Which is the same thing in a fantasy novel isn't it?

Tolkien said little of Tom Bombadil's origins, and the character does not fit neatly into the categories of beings Tolkien created. Bombadil calls himself the "Eldest" and the "Master". He claims to remember "the first raindrop and the first acorn", and that he "knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless—before the Dark Lord came from Outside". When Frodo asks Goldberry just who Tom Bombadil is, she responds simply by saying "He is". Some critics have taken this dialogue as a reference to God's statement "I Am that I Am" in the Book of Exodus, an idea which Tolkien denied as an influence.

Tolkien is a great writer. I'll be sure to tell him I appreciated his work.

There's a video I saw about Bombadil a while back.  The theory about him was a bit disappointing.  He was a character that predates Tolkien's book.  Just a character in stories he would tell his kids.  So his presence in the books is something of an inside joke.

Could be wrong.  That's just something I heard.  I like the Eru theory a lot more personally.