OT - Books

[Cincydawg]

I reread Hail Mary.  I dimly recall reading it a while back, but it was mostly like reading something new.  I thought it was pretty good, not outstanding or great, but decent, a lot of minutia.  

I'm now reading a book about the Mexican War, it's pretty detailed also, a lot of personality discussion which sometimes is too much for me.  The title is a quote by Grant.  The US has declared war five times, I think it is, this was one of them.  One can argue four of the five were unnecessary.  

[fezzador]

I wrote a book as well, though it remains unpublished.  It's a high fantasy that evokes Narnia, Harry Potter, etc. if any of youse guys are into that sort of thing.

[Cincydawg]

I've written 8 or so, all on Amazon.  I think I've made maybe $10 in royalties.

I see a slew of new publishing options now on Facebook, I have not tried any of them.  I'm still revising and correcting.

[SFBadger96]

I'm rereading East of Eden, since SFGopher just read it, and his older sibling is reading it now, too.

It's a good one. More or less Steinbeck's modern (turn of the last century) retelling of portions of the book of Genesis. I'm no biblical scholar, but I really like this book. Particularly the characters' dissection of the story of Cain and Abel, and their conclusion re "thou mayest." If you haven't read it, I give it two thumbs up. For whatever that's worth.

[MikeDeTiger]

Much better than the recent Netflix series, I gather.  I haven't seen the Netflix series, but I've heard about it, and it kinda screws up some main points Steinbeck was trying to make.  

Par for the course, now, I reckon. 

[fezzador]

Didn't know this site didn't take Word documents.  Guess PDF will have to do.