We are two weeks into the month of September now. I think this might be a reasonable amount of time for some readers to have completed this book if they started early this month. At least I finished it last week. I’ll leave this thread pinned for the rest of the month and next weekend I’ll create the poll for the next book of the month. That poll will end on the last day of the month and the cycle will continue.

Feel free to include as many spoilers as you want in your comments as the post itself is marked as containing spoilers.

I’m hoping someone else could get started or else I will have to. 😅

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  • GBU_28English
    192·
    10 months ago

    It’s just straight up “fun”. I really enjoyed it, but would never suggest it’s one of the sci Fi greats, and is defensible among the greats.

    That said, I’ll reread it in a year or so, and recommend it to non tech/nerd friends looking for a sci Fi story

    Oh, the audio book is excellent. I can’t imagine it any other way

    • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 months ago

      The Audio book was FANTASTIC. It’s a bit goofy and plays a little loosy goosey with some of the “SCI” part in Sci-fi. I also recommend this to anybody looking for a book recommendation, it’s an easy read and entertaining.

      It did however highlight a very interesting challenge that the movie is going to face.

      In the book Grace sets up a translation system for communication initially but after a while just simply understands what is being said. In a book/audio book format the reader will only understand the words grace understands and because of the format we accept the limitation and don’t really think about it.

      How the heck are they going to make an alien who speaks in chords understandable for the audience in the film?

      • GBU_28English
        3·
        10 months ago

        Probably have him build an audio device he wears that runs his translation code. Then never mention it again

        That or subtitles, like how han solo just chats with aliens in the cantina, each speaking how they speak

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Hire Ray Porter to voice Rocky. Lots of movies have parts where they magically switch to English.

        Hunt for Red October, Avatar, 13th warrior, and more.

        • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          From what I’ve heard Emma Stone is playing Rocky.

          Yes a lot of movies do magically switch to English but I am unaware of any where the actual language itself and learning it and misunderstanding it is a major plot point. I’m sure there must be I just can’t think of any.