Thread:Sharol46/@comment-27914031-20180222175747

Finshed reading "The Last Colony." I do like Scalzi's sense of humor too -- kind of understated little tongue-in-cheek lines here and there, without overdoing it. I was literally LOL at one or two of those lines (e.g. when Perry tell General Gau "I didn't think it was for the sunsets")! Got Zoe's Tale on hold. Also the nonfiction book "Your Hate Mail Will be Graded."

Just before reading "The Last Colony" I read "Version Control," by Dexter Palmer. It came up as one of those "recommended for you" titles in the library e-book system, I guess because it is sci-fi and because it's a popular new title (took a month or two in my hold/wait queue to get it). I don't recommend it though -- because there was very little sci-fi per se, until the end, and I didn't find the realist story line that made up the bulk of the book to be particularly enthralling.

Another relatively new sci-fi book that I didn't care for much is just now coming out as a movie: "Annihilation" by Jeff VanderMeer (that was also a library "reccomended" title). I kind of liked it a little, but was put off by the way none of the mystery of what was going on was ever revealed or resolved. That might have been because the author was waiting to reveal that in a follow-on volume (it's the first book of a trilogy)...but I didn't like the book well enough to be motivated to read another volume. 