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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025?
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 21:04:35 +0000
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On 02/02/2025 19:14, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> Heh. Time for a "What Have You Been Reading" (or maybe a CSIPGA Movie
> Reviews" thread?
> 
> I worked my way through seven of Ian Banks "Culture" novels. I sort of
> ran out of steam before I got to the last book ("Hydrogen Sonata").
> It's not that I don't want to read it (well, re-read) but I really
> started yearning for something different. Bank's had his own unique
> style but there's only so much of it I could take.
> 
As I said recently I did recently read Look to Windward and I thought it 
was ok but much prefer his contemporary fiction. I've taken a little 
change this month so instead of fiction I've been reading The Conspiracy 
Tourist which is a travelogue by Dom Jolly (don't worry he's a UK 
thing). As the name suggests it's about travelling to different 
locations to engage with conspiracy theories/theorists. Quite fun really 
and for somewhat darker reading I've got The Nazi Mindset: 12 Warnings 
 From History next-up on the list.

> (oh, and with regards to movies, Star Trek Section 13 is as bad as
> everyone is telling you. I can honestly say I enjoyed "Borderlands'
> more... and that's saying something. It's not just a bad Star Trek
> movie, it's just a bad movie all around; terrible cinematography,
> awful story, tedious pacing, unexciting sets and set-pieces. As some
> wag wrote, the only good thing you can say about Section 13 is that it
> finally put to rest the question about which is the worst Star Trek
> movie. 😉

No movies so I'll do TV instead, SAS: Rouge Heroes. Rather enjoyable as 
long as you don't get to nitpicky about the history.