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When did Friday happen?
Sep. 24th, 2010 05:44 pmMummy's ill again, which means it's been a slow week work-wise this week, culminating in not having to go in at all today. Yays. Except for the part where we're making up for it with a full day tomorrow. Oh, well.
All was not lost though - was out running some errands earlier and found another Jack McDevitt novel in the charity shop underneath the flat. This one's called Eternity Road (probable spoilers in link) and chronicles Earth as a dead civilisation and archaeological site to an alien settlement. And I suck at single sentence summaries. But it looks so fantastic. I'll quote off the back of the book:
Their archaeologists call us the Roadmakers, and believe us to be a civilisation who found mythological significance in tarmac... They argue and conjecture over artefacts like the strange metal cans with the letters Pepsi inscribed on both sides... And when they uncover an ancient book - a copy of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur" - they wonder at the values and traditions of our society.
The book's a bit thinner than the two other McDevitt titles I've got, and I'm hoping that means the pace is a bit quicker in this one; Chindi was fabulous despite a very slow start, and The Engines of God, which I'm about halfway through at the moment, is interesting but very slow going, at the moment at least. It looks like the plot's going to get a good kick up the arse over the next couple of chapters or so, and can't come soon enough!
I'm running out of shelf space. I had to completely reorganise the big bookshelf a few weeks ago or risk permanently damaging the shelves, so I've now got books in piles of six or seven on my coffee table, desk and chest, not to mention overflow DVDs and boxsets dotted around the place.
One day I will have read and watched everything I currently own. I can't see that day coming any time soon. Until then at least I'll always have something I ought to be doing :D
All was not lost though - was out running some errands earlier and found another Jack McDevitt novel in the charity shop underneath the flat. This one's called Eternity Road (probable spoilers in link) and chronicles Earth as a dead civilisation and archaeological site to an alien settlement. And I suck at single sentence summaries. But it looks so fantastic. I'll quote off the back of the book:
Their archaeologists call us the Roadmakers, and believe us to be a civilisation who found mythological significance in tarmac... They argue and conjecture over artefacts like the strange metal cans with the letters Pepsi inscribed on both sides... And when they uncover an ancient book - a copy of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur" - they wonder at the values and traditions of our society.
The book's a bit thinner than the two other McDevitt titles I've got, and I'm hoping that means the pace is a bit quicker in this one; Chindi was fabulous despite a very slow start, and The Engines of God, which I'm about halfway through at the moment, is interesting but very slow going, at the moment at least. It looks like the plot's going to get a good kick up the arse over the next couple of chapters or so, and can't come soon enough!
I'm running out of shelf space. I had to completely reorganise the big bookshelf a few weeks ago or risk permanently damaging the shelves, so I've now got books in piles of six or seven on my coffee table, desk and chest, not to mention overflow DVDs and boxsets dotted around the place.
One day I will have read and watched everything I currently own. I can't see that day coming any time soon. Until then at least I'll always have something I ought to be doing :D