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che_gilsonWell, I finished the Doris Lessing book in three days and now I'm plodding along on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's kind of slow but it picks up after they actually meet Capt. Nemo. But there is page after page of technobabble. Either Jules Verne didn't worry about boring his audience OR people back then really wanted to know the Latin names for different species of kelp. I was hoping to have this book finished before the due date but I'm going to have to renew it. I like to challenge myself and check out two books at a time and finish them before they're due. Unfortunately some books seem interminable.
A super book that I read is Starfish by Peter Watts. I bought the sequel even before I finished reading the first one. He has a website at http://www.rifters.com It's all about these people who work at this power generating station on the Juan de Fuca rift. They've all been modified so that they can go outside under immense pressure and work. The kicker is that only highly disfunctional people, usually a product of some kind of abuse, can work down there. So I highly recommend that one.
A super book that I read is Starfish by Peter Watts. I bought the sequel even before I finished reading the first one. He has a website at http://www.rifters.com It's all about these people who work at this power generating station on the Juan de Fuca rift. They've all been modified so that they can go outside under immense pressure and work. The kicker is that only highly disfunctional people, usually a product of some kind of abuse, can work down there. So I highly recommend that one.
