That said, while that's not ideal, it's not always a big negative so long as you're enjoying them as you're reading them. I listened to the audiobook for both of them, narrated by Avi Roque, which I can definitely recommend as a good way to experience them. - ThreadSky

johnjosephadams.com • 33 days ago

That said, while that's not ideal, it's not always a big negative so long as you're enjoying them as you're reading them. I listened to the audiobook for both of them, narrated by Avi Roque, which I can definitely recommend as a good way to experience them.

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johnjosephadams.com•33 days ago

PIRANESI. 9/10 Fascinating, compelling, and super super strange—in the best way possible. I loved it... and have never read anything like it.

johnjosephadams.com•33 days ago

SERVICE MODEL. 8/10 Really fun and fast read about AI, free will, and a very occasional murder. The audiobook is included in the Hugo voters packet, which I thought was pretty much perfectly narrated by the author.

johnjosephadams.com•33 days ago

THE MINISTRY OF TIME. 8/10 A compulsively readable time travel novel. It uses a very similar plot point as the John Varley story "Air Raid" (adapted to film as Millennium), but otherwise it felt like a very fresh take on time travel tropes.

johnjosephadams.com•33 days ago

I was hooked right from the start, and my interest never wavered. It's definitely one of the best debuts I've read in a long time. And hey, Barack Obama loved it too, if you need another reason to read it.

johnjosephadams.com•33 days ago

BABEL. 8/10 This was the book of the year the year it came out, so you probably don't need me to tell you how great it is. But it IS great—I absolutely loved it. The audiobook narrator is really special in this one—they're able to really pull off that vocal chameleon thing that is so hard to do.

johnjosephadams.com•33 days ago

Also worth noting: This book has a lot of footnotes in it, and because a different narrator reads all the footnotes, it feels seamlessly integrated into the narrative—indeed, they feel like they were way less intrusive than if I'd been reading it rather than listening to it.

stellagarp.bsky.social•33 days ago

Piranesi -- the off-balance feeling for the first third of the book, when she gives you a thousand clues and none of them make any sense. It's mind-bending.

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