Holy crap things just keep happening!
Religious wars and secrets of Titans and the walls!
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2021 Book Bingo
I’ve seen the /r/Fantasy Book Bingo cards before a number of times, but this is the first year that I think I’m actually going to try it. I’ve gotten away from my previous reading lists, but this sounds like a great way to find new things / read a few that are out of my comfort zone. I do read a crazy amount, so I should be able to find time for 25 specific books–but then again, there are a few rules that might make this more interesting:
Attack on Titan, Vol. 7 Attack on Titan #7
Man. On one hand, it’s fascinating how you can go through 200 pages and cover (for the most part) less than an hour. On the other, so very much happens in that one hour.
This time around, we’re still out of the city, dealing with the Female Titan. The plot thickens!
Attack on Titan, Vol. 6 Attack on Titan #6
Whoo boy onward we go. People (at least the Survey folks) are really beginning to more or less accept Eren and that he might actually not be the only human that can Titan (or Titan that can human?). It’s a mission to discover the past and whatever other secrets that might be happening and all sorts of crazy things happen:
Attack on Titan, Vol. 5 Attack on Titan #5
Crazier world building! Eren et al on a mission. Man this series is crazy.
Titans that talk!
Attack on Titan, Vol. 4 Attack on Titan #4
Attack on Titan, Vol. 3 Attack on Titan #3
Well, that’s a development. Turns out Eren can turn into a Titan and now everone knows. And that means they have a plan!
The strength in this is really the worldbuilding. I’m still trying to figure out what in the world is going on in this crazy gruesome world–and seeing how people are just people all along. Some good, some bad, and some downright crazy.
Attack on Titan, Vol. 2 Attack on Titan #2
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 Attack on Titan #1
Off we go! I’ve heard good things about Attack on Titan, but other than some pictures of gruesome looking skinless giants, I’m not really sure what I’m in for. It should be fun!
In a nutshell, it appears that the world was overrun by semi intelligent, naked, sexless humanoid (I personally think it would be all the more terrifying if they had genetalia, but for ratings and the mystery, I see why they don’t) Titans, ranging from twice as tall as a person to far far larger. What’s left of humanity (that we know of) is contained in a small(ish) city with a 50m wall. Good enough–untl an EVEN BIGGER TITAN APPEARS:
Fantastic Voyage
Well that’s a bizarre little story. On one hand, it’s 1960s scifi in a nutshell, full of tensions about the ‘Other Side’ (obvious enough), weird but fascinating scientific gadgets and ideas, sexism, and with odd pacing and dialog. It’s pretty much what I remember from other Asimov novels, although it’s been a while.
Which is amusing, given that unlike what I’d guessed, in this case the movie actually game first. Based on a short by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby, Asimov only got involved in the novelization–and then only if he was given leave to do the science properly. For the most part, he did. I don’t know enough ananotomy to know if anything in particular is wrong, but it makes me want to know more, which I think is pretty much the entire point of the thing.