Which book are you currently reading?

[zzz_pt]

Went to Brazil a few months ago, and visited this writer's house museum in Salvador, Bahia.
Purchased this one in the store and currently reading it

 

[shadow0460]

None currently. The last one was "Blake's 7 Afterlife" by Tony Atwood. I also read the novelization of the episode "Avalon".
Afterlife could easily be the show's fifth season. If you saw the program itself you know the last frame was Kerr Avon raising a stolen pirates' rifle towards the camera. Afterlife picks up shortly thereafter and contains several distinct sections.
Avalon has some differences. In the book Cally and Jenna are in opposite roles: Jenna stays on the ship while Cally goes down for the meeting. This makes more sense from a continuity standpoint but was changed to focus more on Jenna's recon skills than her piloting. Also in the book the female mutoid played by Glynis Barber is male instead.

Next up I'm probably gonna dig into the Voyager novels or maybe Escape From Tenopia and Escape From the Kingdom of Frome, two of my favorite gamebook series.

 

[Imbissbrunto]

I‘m currently reading Jean-Remy von Matt‘s autobiography; he‘s probably Germany‘s most successful and well known person in advertising.

Since I work in Sales and Marketing I find it very insightful and I can relate to quite a few of the situation‘s he‘s describing. What I also really like about him is how he became successful because of his creativity and unconventional approach to many things in life.

I‘ve always admired people like that who went against the grain (same with Rick Rubin and Kanye West, at least before the latter lost his mind).

 

[Com Fox]

Australian Indie Book Series called: Revolt. Read the first 2 books but unsure if I'll read the 3rd when it comes out.

It's hard describe the feelings and overall verdict. There's two sides to the series. One is really, really good and other is well, not. It's either a sci-fi sport story about the main characters being able to finally enter the sport late and a lot of personal conflicts that come with that, and the other is side is a lore based sci-fi about a rebellious gang known as the Revolt taking over the world from the shadows abusing the fractured state of the rebuild.

The sports side is the really good part. It uses the characters dynamics well to sell you on the bloody fights the happen frequently, I find myself rooting for the POV character at any given time to win constantly cause I end up being invested in what they are personally going through. It plays really well in contrast too with some great mixing of drama and comedy as well as some really tough hard hitting emotional stuff that feels earned with how interesting they make the character dynamics. There's one character who is just the biggest pompous 🤬 who would hateable in most stories but in the context of the book, I love him. His friends treat him like a wild animal who needs to be constantly yanked on his chain when he goes overboard and his friendship forming with the main character after they originally hated each other is really great to see develop, they play off each other so well.

The lore side is really boring and unnecessarily cruel, Revolt have no interesting characters to speak of and feels like its just dragging with vagueness to pretend something interesting is happening and the POV character that ends up getting dragged in this mess just get tortured constantly that serves nothing to his character. It's not even the Revolt torturing this character, the Revolt only want to capture him (for reasons not explained) the narrative is just making him do it to himself in a desparate attempt to escape.

Eventually at the end of the 2nd Book, some details of the lore side intersect with the sports side and it just begins to weigh it all down so I don't think I'll proceed further.

EDIT: Thinking more about it, theres still enough nice and interesting details to keep me going and the divide is still fascinating to dissect so I will read Part 3