Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025?

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 21:04:35 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 02/02/2025 19:14, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Heh. Time for a "What Have You Been Reading" (or maybe a CSIPGA Movie
Reviews" thread?
 
I worked my way through seven of Ian Banks "Culture" novels. I sort of
ran out of steam before I got to the last book ("Hydrogen Sonata").
It's not that I don't want to read it (well, re-read) but I really
started yearning for something different. Bank's had his own unique
style but there's only so much of it I could take.
 

As I said recently I did recently read Look to Windward and I thought it
was ok but much prefer his contemporary fiction. I've taken a little
change this month so instead of fiction I've been reading The Conspiracy
Tourist which is a travelogue by Dom Jolly (don't worry he's a UK
thing). As the name suggests it's about travelling to different
locations to engage with conspiracy theories/theorists. Quite fun really
and for somewhat darker reading I've got The Nazi Mindset: 12 Warnings
From History next-up on the list.

Side note: Apparently Amazon is working on a mini-series based on
"Consider Phlebas", the first of Ian Bank's Culture novels. Which, I
dunno... good luck to them on that one, because I don't think that's a
series that translates well to film, and "Phlebas" was (IMHO) the
least enjoyable of the books (if only because all the characters are
so utterly unlikable). Personally, I think "Matter" would have been a
better first try. But if you love the novels, I guess you have that to
look forward to.

(Me, I'm currently hip-deep in Robert Reed's "Greatship" novels.)