Discussion: O is for Out of This World (where the story takes place) • The Sock Poppet 2014 Reading Challenge • BookLikes

#1 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Post the book you read to fulfill this letter.

#2 by: isanythingopen date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Temptation by David Brin.

It is free on his website.
http://www.davidbrin.com/temptation1.html

#3 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

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How cool!

#4 by: isanythingopen date: 11 years ago discussions stats

It's short, but I've read all the other books in the series, and I really wanted to know what happened to the character he writes about in the short.

#5 by: Dor Does Books date: 11 years ago discussions stats

The Explorer by James Smythe - and very good it was too; really tense and atmospheric - which is set in space.

#6 by: Osho date: 11 years ago discussions stats

I've decided that The Martian belongs in this category.

#7 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

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I'm waiting to get The Martian from the library. It sounds really good and I may put it in this category, too, if I don't read something else that fits first.

#8 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Main character and her family are frozen so they can be transported in a spaceship to a new planet where they will awaken 300 years in the future. Nothing can possibly go wrong, right?

Link to Amazon page

#9 by: A Bookish Compulsion date: 11 years ago discussions stats

The Damsel and the Daggerman

#10 by: Bambbles Rambles date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Sock, did you like Across the Universe? I really enjoyed that series.

#11 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

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I did like it. I listened to the audiobook and it was very well done.

#12 by: Bambbles Rambles date: 11 years ago discussions stats

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Glad to hear it! It is one of my go to YA books to recommend people. Did they have a male and female reader for the alternate chapters or just one reader?

#13 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

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Just one narrator (female), but she did a good job with the voices.

#15 by: Bambbles Rambles date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Back Across the Styx by Karalynn Lee

Takes place in Hades and on Earth. Not a horrid novella, but very predictable and somewhat plodding. But I finished it so that's good. If it was too bad I would have just said no and stopped reading.

#16 by: Themis-Athena's Garden of Books date: 11 years ago discussions stats

A Game of Thrones -- first volume of the "Ice and Fire" series. I won't be bothering with the other ones.