Reading roundup: Perhaps the Stars

[hamsterwoman]

(46 is Audible's Sandman, which I finally finished, but I can't get it to fit in the same post, so will pick it up next time.)

47. Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (the conclusion of the Terra Ignota tetralogy) -- I loved it, but I have no idea how I'm going to be able to talk about it in a post. I spent the last two weeks with my brain-intensive

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[giallarhorn]

I had no idea they had Sandman as an audiobook- how'd it turn out? I always thought it odd turning graphic novels to audio since it seems like a tricky task, cause it's almost a play at that point?

Ohh, I think I have a copy of Too Much Like Lightning somewhere, but it might've been shuffled way down the to read list. But I'm getting the impression it's probably worth picking up again over winter break XD

[hamsterwoman]

I always thought it odd turning graphic novels to audio since it seems like a tricky task, cause it's almost a play at that point?

Yeah -- I'm sure quite a bit of new narration was added to describe things that were just visual in the GN version; some of it was very nice, some of it not as effective as the visual form. Overall, though, I thought it turned out pretty well! A nice companion piece; I don't know that it fully stands on its own.

Too Like the Lightning/Terra Ignota is... It is my favorite series of the last five years, by a long shot, and has become one of my all-time favorites, I think. But it's a very idiosyncratic thing, very unlike anything else in the genre, I think, and quite polarizing. I know several people whose tastes usually overlap mine pretty well who HATED the book, and I'm not surprised, because it's a book/series that commits very hard to some ambitious things, and they are challenging things that can come off as unpleasant or problematic (all this is very intentional, but requires a) a lot of trust in