This is actually my first time reading any of Vonnegut’s work. I’m about halfway through and it’s witty, depressing, hilarious and just overall pretty great. I imagine I’ll read everything of his after this.
Just finished this morning while waiting for the Spectrum tech to fix our line at my parent's new place. Wish I had finished it a bit sooner. Extremely good though! I already have the second book in my possession that I will start at some point.
As stated before, I've been in the mood for some reading lately, the first in many years. Went by Barnes & Noble and picked up two books with Red Rising being one of the two.
I have only read about 6 chapters, but I'm enjoying it so far
Author's theory is that a lot innate human characteristics were honed by contact with hostile Neanderthals. The subject matter sounded interesting, but I'm only about 10 pages in.
Never heard of it.. But I appreciate the mention. Over the last couple years, I've found some good reads from fellow posters in here.
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…
A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering
And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.
