re: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Recommendation & Discussion Thread

Broken Earth is very good, and as Sally said it's unique.

Also as Sally said, book 1 is on the lower end of the WOT series. I'd personally go:

Great-books 4-6
Very good- 2,3, and 12
Good-7 and 11
Average-1 and 14
Mediocre-8, 13
Bad-9 (last 150-200 pages are outstanding)
Complete garbage-10

Yeah, probably in the mediocre catagory for me, not as good as 14 I don't think.

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audible

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Always considered that cheating

I really enjoyed these:

The Three Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death’s End
The Redemption of Time
Seveneves

What should I read next? Thanks.

Unfortunately I have not had time to read like I used to. Last book a read was I believe a Brent weeks book over a year ago.

I'm always working or driving to work. I can listen at those times.

It would be cool if you could link a Kindle/nook with audible and have them share data to start your reading or listening off at same spot.

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Just started The emperor's blades on audible. I really really like it.

I listened to both fifth season, obelisk gate, then City of stairs. And man I really hated all of them. I think it is the narrator that I don't like. A lady read both of them and no change in inflection or pauses between different characters talking or thoughts. Just not good story telling I think. I bought all three broken earth books on nook and city of circle and will read when I'm not so busy and see if it's really the narrator or the book.

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So does everybody just listen to all these books now?

I've never done an audio book yet, but now i'm questioning whether people even read them when they say they've read a book or have they just listened to most of them.

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I think most of the people who do audio books do both audio and regular, I know Sally does.

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That's me. Driving, working, cooking, im listening. If I'm just relaxing or sitting around, I'm reading. Reading is definitely faster, but not possible sometimes. And I care more about the story than how it is consumed.

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Just curious, why are audio books so much slower

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I'm an extremely fast reader, so it probably wouldn't be that slow for everyone. The pace of reading being so much slower tends to bore me and I wind up tuning it out and not focusing.

And that must suck picturing the show characters while reading, particularly since almost none of them look like their book descriptions. And most of them don't act particularly like the book versions either.

Timing wise would really depend on the book for me if it is faster or slower. I can finish Eye of the World in about 10 - 12 hours (did it on a Sunday after show was moving forward) so it is way faster to listen but that is also a book I have read a ton.

But, I usually stick to non-fiction for audiobooks these days, mainly for long car rides, when I am fishing, doing the row machine, or something like that. Have trouble paying attention if I try and do it while working at the desk and dont' get anything out of it (probably since I'm trying to read and type unrelated stuff).

I get way more out of audiobooks for nonfiction usually compared to reading - and those I move to as fast as possible, usually hoping for around 1.75 - 2x. At those kind of speeds I feel like it is definitely faster for me to listen than read for most non-fiction.

For most fiction, I can speed read over a lot of stuff, kind of filling in the blanks for stuff that isn't too dense so it goes fast.

Non-fiction I usually need every word and also get more out of it if I can sit and think while I keep listening, i'll go back if I've gotten lost but it does not happen too much. Fiction on audiobooks, I can't stay focused.

On the second book of Scalzi's "The Interdependency" series. I've never read Scalzi before, and I'm really enjoying his style.