Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025? Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 21:04:35 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <0bgvpj9of6c2hmiqkmqrnvejgjv4tmvk1s@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:04:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="14c08b54427348d46d506763ee0bde31"; logging-data="2129781"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NXakUEW0kNy5nGNoE1J4L" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:pS6RcVJvrg9dvNL6h1m3nW0jtgk= In-Reply-To: <0bgvpj9of6c2hmiqkmqrnvejgjv4tmvk1s@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2867 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.