What book are you reading?

erebus

Just finished Project Hail Mary.
Seeing the movie today.
Hopefully it is close to the book.

brianlux

Having been a bit put off by a couple of book I recently started but then abandoned (one, simply because the print was too small for my old eyes), I decided to re-read an "oldie but goodie", John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday.

But, wait!  Oldie, yes, but goodie?  I'm dismayed at how I could have ever thought this was one of my favorite Steinbeck's (it's been quite a few years since last reading it).  It doesn't hold a candle to the vastly far superior Cannery Row (which I read again last year for  the fourth or fifth time.)  For one thing, Doc is not nearly represented as well in the earlier Cannery Row, and I was really put off by his torturing of octopi on page 42.  And his representation of women in this book was, well, dated, to put it nicely.  That just doesn't fly today.  If I recall correctly, the book gets better toward the end and it's a fairly quick read, so I'll probably finish it, but I would never recommend this as a good place to start with the great John Steinbeck. 

CarryTheZero

erebus said:

Just finished Project Hail Mary.
Seeing the movie today.
Hopefully it is close to the book.

Nice! Waiting on my daughter to finish the book (awesome book!), and then we are all going!