Books - What are you reading?

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ltc in reply to @aggi

I'm not a big fan of the Culture series either. It's all a bit too nerdy for me, aliens with funny names and laser guns and stuff don't do it for me res1lly. Although they're definitely more interesting than most sci fi in that vein.
I'm about halfway through Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. I've never read a book which uses the word "cunt" quite so much. Pretty wild considering it was published in the 30s.

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aggi in reply to @ltc

I quite like space operas with aliens with funny names and laser guns and stuff, it just seemed to take itself a bit too seriously but without the believability of something like Larry Niven

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AlexD in reply to @aggi

I think the believability is what I liked about the culture books. It's way out there, but i had a sense of it being pretty much how a post-resource space faring society might be. A lot of authors can't break free of contemporary context in the way Banks can.

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