Congrats brother. I rarely reread anything, but O’Brian feels like something I could start from the beginning and never look back, just keep circumnavigating the cycle.

Not as good as his earlier stuff (Cartel trilogy is his high water). But a good set of distraction novels. Last one kinda stalled out a bit.

Just picked up from a British LeCarré friend the original BBC TTSS & S’sP today, with original soundtrack. We are definitely surfing similar waves Luke.

This first year of Trump 2.0 also seems Pynchon adjacent.

Also, I tend to drag out the last few novels of authors I adore. LeCarré is all finished and there are no new gems, which is rather depressing.

Oh, I’ve read it. Super excited for the adaptation(?). Movie appears inspired by/soul sister to, but quasi adaption is a good description.

No. I’m now 6/9 into the Expanse series and I’m now so far into that relationship we are picking out drapery together. I’ll have to check out Revelation. I might need a bit of a rest from hard sci-fi after this.

Xenophon!! Ich liebe Loebs.

Probably the safest place to be.

I adore @mdbell79.bsky.social and this one was so good. Felt a bit like standing on a literary tesseract. Whenever I felt settled, secure, I realized the novel’s surface just changed.

Hollywood Nocturnes felt like a rough draft of what would later be done better in Ellroy’s LA Quartet & yet to be finished LA Quintet. The first three Expanse novels were very good. Fleming’s Diamond Smugglers was meh. Dark Companion and Burnt Orange Heresy were both very good.

When is it going to be published in the US? I can get a Corsair copy, but I'd love to see it on Kindle and Audible too.

My Top 5 sentence in the OP was awkward because the other 4 were all author names (and one was translator + author). With PP I didn’t use Rulfo, I used Páramo.

Top 5. Loved it. Translation was great. Enjoyed Murderbot and the Stand, but LOVED Rulfo.