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Do you genuinely believe there's a viable way to salvage the damage Fandom caused?

Ditto on @knellmoray's recommendation of Three-Body Problem. This is the hardest I've seen a sci-fi book go into the science aspect of it all. Agreed that there's not much in terms of characterization though. 200 pages in and I'm still not sure where it's going but I'm enjoying the ride.

Shoutout to Austin Walker for recommending A Memory Called Empire on a Waypoint podcast years ago. It's about a new ambassador for a small mining station being summoned to the empire's capital after the mysterious death of her predecessor. It does something I've never read before by hyper-focusing on language, speech, body language, optics. Basically how diplomacy and politics are done on a microscopic scale. I finally got the sequel, A Desolation Called Peace, on paperback and I can't wait to dig into it once I make my way through my backlog.

I'm slowly making my way through Ted Chiang's Exhalation short story collection. All I knew about the author is that he wrote the story that eventually became Arrival. I keep thinking about What's Expected of Us where humanity has learned there's no such thing as free will and has a genuine existential crisis; it's amazing the ideas Chiang is able to touch on in a matter of 4 pages.

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@sombre: Honma never fully recovered from his neck injury. Which is a tragedy because he was legit one of the best babyfaces in wrestling. His match against Ishii at Korakuen was magical

I'm about halfway through Grapes of Wrath. I read it in high school and seemed to be one of the few who really liked it. It's been on my mind for the past few years and feels like the type of book for these times. Rereading it is cementing it as one of my all-time favorites. I had forgotten how strong 'Ma has to be for the entire family to function. I had forgotten about the interstitial chapters. I'd forgotten about how leftist(not sure if that's the best way to put it) it is. Talking about the labor of men plowing the earth they were raised on and being replaced by lifeless machines, of the unity and common struggle of migrants as they make their nightly camps heading west, of the low wages and exploitation from contractors and landowners.

Over quarantine I've reread Ghosts in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick and re-read all but one of the short stores from William Gibson's Burning Chrome. The Belonging Kind is probably still my favorite from that collection and I just can't finish Hinterlands.

I'm thinking of rereading something in Spanish next. I read Death of Artemio Cruz in my English literature class and loved it, I'll have to look for a Spanish version.

@omgfather: Tried Satellite Reign but someone already claimed it, thank you regardless

Naito fans in shambles

Going to Joey Janela's Escape from LA next week. Hoping Nick Gage v. Jimmy Havoc is a deathmatch so I can finally say I've seen one in person