#abaddons gate

[saint-leibowitzing]

books i read in 2019:

↪ abaddon’s gate, the expanse #3 (james s. a. corey)

Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it’s a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

[jasonvtodd]

i saw a lot of people were apparently not happy with what the expanse did in the last 7 eps of season 3. with covering the third book ABANDONS GATE in the way that it did but... honestly?? i like the shows adaption better. with drummer and how they tweaked a lot of the mutiny stuff and gave some of bull & pa’s stuff to the other characters we already knew. now that ive read some of the books everything makes a lot more sense. but if i hadnt read the books... i think if they tried to adapt AG exactly as it is in the books, general audiences would have been hella confused and overwhelmed by all the new characters and the arcs... so?? possibly an unpopular opinion buut.. i love their adaption of “Abandons Gate” and i think i even prefer it to the book???

[better-than-yaman]

So I’ve picked Abaddon’s gate back up, and im noticing some real Jonah and the whale undertones with Holden. Going to the opposite end of the world to escape his calling?? Sure bud, I’m sure that will work.

[saverg]

The third in the series, better than the second for sure although not convinced by the ending. Loved the glimpse into the universe beyond and what awaits humanity. Bringing the religion element in felt fresh but confused to the purpose, and maybe that's the one flaw I felt in the book. Looking forward to the next one still!

[fullnerdity]

Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)

For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact wo...

I’m finally listening to this on Libby!

[context-is-for-the-weak]

Speaking of which though, all of you should be reading The Expanse novels by James S A Corey. Aside from being really good science fiction, it also has a high budget TV series coming in December so if you want to be all hipster about that before it gets big then now's the time man. (First one's called Leviathan Wakes jsyk)

[context-is-for-the-weak]

The annoying thing about the Tumblr app is you can't browse tags, you can only use the 'search' function. So instead of finding people talking about The Expanse novels by James S. A. Corey, I mostly get bizarre pornographic artwork of obscenely large people (and, of course, ponies). I mean not like regular fat people either, I mean far fatter than is humanly possible.

[apartment22]

Even though Abaddon's Gate was a minor letdown for me personally, I am still very excited about the fourth installment in James Corey's outstanding Expanse series, Cibola Burn.