Finished
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot. 5/5 from me, super engaging memoir. Really intense.
Also read
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan. Another 5/5. Heartbreaking depiction of a divorce with such crazy detail. Both of these books were hard not to finish in about a day each. They're not super long or short, but extremely engaging and entertaining. Almost to the degree of
Cherry by Nico Walker.
I started
There There by Tommy Orange and also
Frozen Hell, the extended version of "Who Goes There?" which was recently discovered in some archives. Not bad so far.
I've been checking out some graphic novels too.
The White Donkey, the book-length piece by Maximilian Uriarte, was incredible. His comic strip, Terminal Lance, is pretty integral, but I found this full-length deployment narrative to encompass a lot of true things about the Marines and deploying, and then coming home. He really nailed it.
I got the DC/Darkhorse Aliens book and re-read the
Batman/Aliens books. The first one was decent, it's the one I read a few times as a kid. The characters are memorable but the whole story is kind of self-contained. I haven't read other Batman comics really so I don't know how much it remains in the spirit of that material.
Batman/Aliens II kinda sucked. The first two issues were interesting, but the third just went totally nuts and ended up being goofy.
I've looked at some of the other new comics too. I thought
Dead Orbit was alright, cool art but not much to it. I didn't like the ending.
Dust to Dust I preferred some more. I thought they both did a great job of staying in the spirit of the films instead of going off the rails like so many of the other graphic novels do. Still need to investigate plenty more of these.
Quote from: Wweyland on Jun 21, 2019, 09:38:57 AM
Been reading Alien and Predator stuff for 1,5 years nonstop and am actually almost finished and kind of fed up as well.
I've only ended up reading a few of the books per year on average. I get burned out if I read too many at a time.
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jun 20, 2019, 08:57:26 AM
Fair. It is pretty whack. Suffered for me though because it felt as though everything that was different made the story objectively worse. It's a neat curio but I didn't think it was an especially good book.
Second was a far better read in every regard, I thought.
Not to mention the first book is pretty damn racist throughout. I don't remember how close the second one came (beyond the obvious plot elements), but maybe this is why Titan aren't reissuing them.
