SciFi
4 entries. 1,619 words.
2013-06
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Ready Player One – Start!.
2013-06-18.
I’m finally listening to the audiobook of the much-talked-about Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, read by Internet super-celebrity Wil Wheaton.
Though I’m only a handful of chapters into it, this book is clearly an 80s geek subculture nerdgasm from start to finish. It’s fascinating, hilarious, and depressing - despressing because of how many of the obscure references I understand (like, roughly, all of them).
Now I’m going to take the fanboy hat off and put on the author hat.
- Books
2013-07
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Latest Audibooks I've Listened To.
2013-07-01.
I’ve been on an audiobook kick lately. I realize it’s “cheating” to listen to a book instead of read it, but it’s just so darn convenient. You can actually accomplish other things simultaneously while listening to a book (like driving, washing dishes, playing games, paying bills, etc.), whereas if you read a book, it’s pretty much all you can do.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, read by Wil Wheaton. Great nostalgia book, although I could have lived without the cliche “real world is better than the virtual world” moral.
- Books
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Ender's Game.
2013-07-22.
I just finished the audiobook for Ender’s Game, which I have never read before. I’ve missed quite a few science fiction classics over the years, so I’m trying to make up for it with my Audible credits. The audiobook, by the way, was very well read.
I don’t know what I would have thought if I’d read this book when I was younger, but now, I found it to be a tragically depressing story.
- Books
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Deconstructing The Hunger Games.
2013-07-24.
(This unpublished gem has been sitting in my drafts since April 16, 2012.)
Stolen image of The Hunger Games’s book cover from Amazon.com.
Okay, I have figured out the magical formula for making a hit Young Adult book. It’s really quite easy.
The story elements in The Hunger Games:
A smart and tough, but emotionally vulnerable hero.
A love triangle with a bunch of confused feelings.
A personal vendetta against a villain.
- Writing