If you remember, I said I was looking for two books. After not finding them it started to become an obsession. One of them was too new so it made sense that I wasn't going to find it used*. I can deal.
The other one is a prime candidate for used book stores?! Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear.
It sounded right up my alley. A guy wakes up on a space ship and doesn't know who he is, where he is or where he's going and the ship is trying to kill him. Oooh yes, tell me more.
I pictured, 2001 or Alien. I had to have this book. So I copped out and asked Russel's to call me if they got it in. I got the call last week.
This book is crazy. Giant friendly lemon shaped monsters, women with hundreds of breasts, furry doughnut monkeys!? I enjoy trippy books but this was over the top. Half the time I wasn't even sure what was going on - the writing was almost too abstract.
So far my new science fiction genre has been all over the map. Neuromancer was kick ass. The Lure - not so much. Hull Zero Three? I'm not even sure how to categorize this one. However this is a far better jaunt than my forays into the horror genre.
* After we got home I bought it on Kobo. The Man in the Empty Suit - Sean Ferrell.
2 comments:
I love obsessively looking for an item. I've been looking for The National's "Boxer" on vinyl and I finally found it this weekend.
... and I was STOKED to find the soundtrack to It's All Gone, Pete Tong at (of all places) Value Village (brand new!!) in the clearance pile for 50 dang cents!! (I had been trying to order it online, but it was going to be a special order and cost something like $45. Then to find it in Vic for a measly 50 cents? HELLO!)
So yes, I know what it's like to search obsessively for something, too. ;)Sounds like the book you got is way too out there for me, though. Who knew I was so conservative?
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