Book Foo and some assorted other stuff...

[newnumber6]

Book Foo... been a while..

Finished: Old Man's War by John Scalzi (reread)

Reread, not much new to say, enjoyed it, probably a little more knowing how the last book turns out so some of the things that put me off the first time didn't this time.

Finished: For the Win by Cory Doctorow

Comments

[fiddlersgreen]

John Scalzi is one of those authors I keep hearing about from various quarters but have never actually read. May have to remedy that.

Out of curiosity, have you been watching Alphas? (I don't even know if it's airing at all in Canada, so.) I've really been enjoying it. It's a pretty down-to-earth take on superpowered beings, closer to a real-world X-Men than, say, to Heroes, and it's very well-written and well-acted.

[newnumber6]

Yeah, he's pretty good, although I'm not sure I'd call him a favorite. He does have a very easy style to get into - he's the type of author I'd recommend to somebody who likes SF in TV and Movies but hasn't read a lot of books, rather than a Vinge or Banks who's a lot weightier and mindbending.

Reading back on that it looks like I'm trying to damn him with faint praise, but it's not like that at all, he is good, just in a style that's a little more accessible.

I've heard about Alphas... it does air here, I believe, but I don't have cable so I can't watch it that way. I do have a good chunk of the first season on my HD through... magic, but I just haven't gotten around to actually watching it.

[occamsnailfile]

I didn't care as much for Zoe's Tale for some of the same reasons that you didn't. It filled in a couple of gaps I guess, but I never could buy into Zoe as more than some kind of wunderkind insert. It's a perpetual problem with teen characters.