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Tildes Book Club - Fall schedule
Following this month's discussion of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, , we are set up to read This is How You Lose the Time War towards the end of September. After that we will discuss Kindred by Octavia Butler at the end of October and The City We Became by Jemisin at the end of November.
I look forward to reading with you.
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Thank you. Hopefully fixed. I have a medical condition that causes my eyes to jump around when I look at something and that is precisely the kind of mistake I find hard to avoid.
Wanted to add my thanks to you @boxerdogsdance for organizing this.
Aside: I am checking Tildes first thing after waking up. I find this time to be my best for creativity and free association. I think it's because I'm still in transition out of "dream mode".
Anyway, seeing all the screen names together and thinking about fantasy/SF worlds had me trying to construct a world where the ideas expressed in the screen names were real things. For example, instead of the chicken dance, people do the boxer dogs dance.
Thank you again for organizing this, I've been enjoying reading along with everyone :)
im excited!!!!! gonna reread small gods (read in middle school, doesnt count)
prob will skip city we became, i hated the audiobook narration when i tried it last year and also didnt really like broken earth so im not dying to read anymore jemisin (i had tried it at all because it had the word "city" in the title lol and so it would've worked well for my obsessive /r/fantasy bingo) but ill read the discussion
and yay!!! finally will read kindred!!!
read Time War a few years ago, found it pretty underwhelming, but a lot of people love it, so it should be a good discussion 🙂
I enjoyed Time War, but part of that was trying to decipher the hints based on the history of technological development. It was an experience.
I'd give the physical book of City a shot as I think it's really different than Broken Earth but not everything is for everyone
it's a valid suggestion but I'd just never ever ever get around to it, I do like 70% of my reading while doing jigsaw puzzles or crafting, another 20% while outside walking, and the final 10% (physical books in this case) is nonfiction
I'm actually reading Chain Gang All-Stars in physical book now and I'm really enjoying it, but my progress is glacial, cos every time I want to pick it up I read nonfiction instead
That's fair! I just know there are some books I can only do on audio as a re-read.
my issue is a bit specific, i listen to audio very sped up, 3x when i tried City previously and im now at about 4-4.2x. I have no issue understanding the narrators at this speed (except for a few who truly act and voice some characters very quickly, these I slow down my listening speed for the entire book for), but music and sound effects sound absolutely awful!! it feels almost like a sonic boom haha. The City audiobook has a loooooot of sound effects and I could not deal with them
I think for most people it's prob a great audio narration!!!
No that makes sense! I don't speed up that much, it bothers me when the narrator's voice gets pitched up, but it's definitely going to impact things with sound effects at that speed
modern audiobook players don't pitch the voice up at all!! They do a pitch correction alongside the speed change :)
They try but I can still tell! I usually listen at just like 1.25x a bit faster for particularly slow narration but past that and it sounds weird. Maybe the pitch correction is irritating me as much as the pitch change, idk!
I definitely had to start listening on semi-nice bluetooth headphones and not my phone's built-in speakers when i got past about 1.5x speed cos the speakers didnt have enough fidelity (?) to cope with the speed, so that could be an issue if u are using very cheap headphones
but yea nothing wrong with listening at whatever pace u like best!
Oh maybe, I tend to listen to it just on my phone but sometimes on my Pixel buds or the car.
I bet that's part of it. But it's ok, I'm also always multitasking
Anyone else reading the preceding Discworld books before Small Gods?
I've read all of Discworld already, originally by following the subseries groupings starting with Rincewind/Wizards, and eventually working my way through them all. And since then, I have randomly reread all my favs multiple times over the years too. So this time I decided to give the published order a try instead because I've never actually done that before. And since Small Gods is only the 13th book to be published, I figured I should still be able to get to it before the end of the month.
I'm enjoying the experience so far... but I can definitely see how by reading it in the published order, and having to bounce around between different settings, themes, and characters as a result, it might be annoying for someone who hasn't read any Discworld books before. It really doesn't feel like the best way to read the series, IMO.
I have also read all of Discworld already but before anyone had publicized the subseries reading orders based on character groups.
I've since revisited my favorites, but never reread the whole thing.
I've read everything but the last book (I'm holding it, because I don't want it to be over), not doing a re-read right now but I'm enjoying the new audiobook for Small Gods so I might have to!
Speaking of, how are the audiobooks? If they're done well, I might throw some of those into the mix as I go back through the whole series, so I can listen while I'm doing other things.
I'm really enjoying the new one for Small Gods, it's Andy Serkis with footnotes and Death provided by other voices.
The only thing I don't love is the little chime played before Bill Nighy steps in with the footnotes. But it's possible I'd miss them otherwise.
I've listened to a few of the older ones before that were also decent but some had clearly been ported from cassette and the quality was poor.
Oh, cool. I didn't realize Andy Serkis and Bill Nighy did the narration for them. And it looks like Indira Varma, and Peter Serafinowicz are in a bunch of them too, both of whom I recognize from various shows and movies. So I'm definitely going to have to check out the audiobooks now!
Apparently they're all in the new Penguin audiobook versions, which are all available on Audible. Sweet. Thanks for the heads up. :)
Yeah he's at least doing this one! I saw some complaints at how Brother's voice is too deep for a 17 year old and idk I think he does a good job.
I'm a late-comer to Pratchett so had only read it and precious few before it
I did find an internet archive audiobook collection read by Nigel Planer, so I'm going to re-listen to as much as I can this month. I have read neither Pyramids nor "Death and what comes next" yet , but Guards Guards might be my pick because I really like the City Watch books