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I've been listening to the audiobooks, so not sure it counts but "The Three Body Problem" by Liu Cixin.

The author is in China and this was written in Chinese (I'm assuming Mandarin) and translated. It's hard science fiction with a capital H.

Absolutely life altering.
 
Gameface said:
I've been listening to the audiobooks, so not sure it counts but "The Three Body Problem" by Liu Cixin.

The author is in China and this was written in Chinese (I'm assuming Mandarin) and translated. It's hard science fiction with a capital H.

Absolutely life altering.
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The author, Liu Cixin, also wrote The Wandering Earth, which was turned into the biggest Chinese movie ever, and Netflix paid a ton for it in the States. Also, Three Body Problem is being turned into a series on Amazon, at a cost of $1B.

The translator, Ken Liu (no relation) is also a great writer. His novella The Paper Managerie, is the first work of fiction to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. His Dendelion Dynasty series is also brilliant.
 
gandalfe said:
The author, Liu Cixin, also wrote The Wandering Earth, which was turned into the biggest Chinese movie ever, and Netflix paid a ton for it in the States. Also, Three Body Problem is being turned into a series on Amazon, at a cost of $1B.

The translator, Ken Liu (no relation) is also a great writer. His novella The Paper Managerie, is the first work of fiction to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. His Dendelion Dynasty series is also brilliant.
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Wow! I hope they do right by this. I can't imagine even trying. $1B sounds like they are going to try. Obviously I will watch whatever comes of it.

And thanks, I know what my next several audiobooks are going to be!
 
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The author, Liu Cixin, also wrote The Wandering Earth, which was turned into the biggest Chinese movie ever, and Netflix paid a ton for it in the States. Also, Three Body Problem is being turned into a series on Amazon, at a cost of $1B.

The translator, Ken Liu (no relation) is also a great writer. His novella The Paper Managerie, is the first work of fiction to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. His Dendelion Dynasty series is also brilliant.
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So I downloaded Ken Liu's "Paper Menagerie" and listened to "Good Hunting" and I was like I know this story. So I searched for it and found out it was part of Netflix "Love, Death, Robots" series under the same name. Obviously the written version is better.

I have honestly been moved by a few of the stories so far in "The Paper Menagerie." Ken Liu is an entirely different writer than Liu Cixin. Both are very powerful, but Ken Liu gets at my emotions much more directly.

Thank you @gandalfe! Thank you very very much!
 
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read three charles bukowski books today, hilarious stuff - factotum, ham on rye and post office. He's got a good sense of how not to write the same boring **** that most people do.. excited to finish up the rest of his books and go thru the poems in the coming days.

I've been on bit of a break from reading but am about to go ballistic and take down hundreds of books by the end of the summer so i'ma bump this often.

really trying to get a lot of hard copy stuff by the summers end too, nonfiction mostly. i need to limit the hardcopies to reference work and i guess what people call coffee table material or else it'll get totally out of hand.. which kinda sucks..the consumer in me wants to collect them all pokemon style
 
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The Velveteen Rabbit. This Margery Williams classic is one I strongly feel a lot of adults should read, because everywhere I look I see them failing miserably at aging with grace.
 
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is my book for tonight
 
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