📚 What Are You Reading? 📖

[Snorkel]

Tell us about any cool books, comics or other word-based media that you are currently consuming! Are they any good?

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[Snorkel]

“It’s a Lapsang souchong,” Avasarala said. “My husband buys it for me. What do you think?”
“I think it smells like hobo feet,” Bobbie replied.

[Ishan451]

That sounds mean

[Snorkel]

Yeah, poor hobos.

[marie pavie]

Somehow this opened on my notepad. I'm sure someone will want to read it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgMr0JcYJ4

[Snorkel]

Oof

[Snorkel]

Messaggio originale di Snorkel:

I'm currently reading Harrow the Ninth, which is W.E.I.R.D. It's the sequel to Gideon the Ninth[www.vox.com], which had the tagline "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" Anyone expecting lesbian romance will be disappointed, these are not romance novels, they're fantasy-scifi of the weird variety. The universe feels a bit like 40K, except even more disfunctional. I've never read anything like these. Harrow the Ninth is partially written in second person O_O

Just to say that Gideon the Ninth[www.tor.com] is free to download right now if anyone is interested.

[Ishan451]

So you recommend Gideon the Ninth?

[Snorkel]

It is good, yes. It's also very, very strange, so I have no idea whether you would enjoy it or not.

[Ishan451]

After having read Apocalypse Z, book 1 through 3 (Only Book 1 was worthwhile in retrospect)... i picked up Adrians Undead Diaries.

Apocalypse Z's first book, by spanish writer Manel Loureiro (i read it in english), is written in a Journal style and i quite liked that. Book 2 and 3, changed from 3rd person, whenever exploring another POV character and goes back to the 1st person style of the book, whenever you deal with the POV of the main character.

Generally i am not a fan of 1st person stories, but Journal entries are different for some reason. I dunno why.

So anyway... I decided to try Adrian's Undead Diaries, by Chris Philbrook, and while its nowhere near as good as Apocalypse Z's first book, i have to say as silly as it is, i was thinking of Ashe for the first part of the story..

The Protagonist, Adrian, who is writing his journal recounting how the Apocalypse started to remain sane, is a 6 something big dood, referencing himself to be "big" but not to fat. And he was working as a Teacher. And while he has no dogs, he does have a cat. Adrian also decided to hole up at his school for the duration.

Of course, as the story progressed the similarities end... but i figured i mention it here, in case Ashe might find it interesting to know that out there is a Novel about a 6foot something teacher surviving a zombie apocalypse in his School

[Snorkel]

Expanse 3

They're doing shots of scotch. Not cheap, artificial space scotch. Extremely expensive Islay single malt scotch that's been sent to space

It is unclear whether the authors think this is an acceptable thing to do, or whether it's just the characters. >_> Er . . . apparently the posh waiter brought the posh scotch with shot glasses, so I guess the authors are the ones at fault here. Posh waiters should know better!

(I don't actually drink scotch, it disagrees with me quite emphatically, but The Mister is a fan)

[Ishan451]

I am not a bit alcohol drinker and i mostly drink rum if i do... what is the significance of scotch?

I mean aside from the cost of shooting that stuff into space.

[Snorkel]

Scotch is Holden's drink of choice. I'm just shocked that he's pouring shots of it. You're supposed to sip scotch, savour it. Not shoot it.

Edit: In case it's a language barrier thing: shot = tiny drink that you throw down your throat in one movement.

[Ishan451]

Funfact... its also called shot in german.

Like these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_glass

Popular drink in my youth was an "U-boot" (Submarine), which is dropping a shot into a glass of wheat beer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_beer )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Boot_(beer_cocktail)


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And i thought Holden was some rich guy that ended up captain running away from his family and such (at least from what i remember of the show)... so i am not surprised he would do shots with expensive liquor.

But i do agree, that it seems a bit excessive, now that you point it out.

[Snorkel]

I think that's called Depth Charge here.

[marie pavie]

Sending it off to belters raises the price of good scotch dramatically. Earth must come first.