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30 Days of Books - Day 1

Yup, I'm doing this now, because I feel like it. Prepare for copious mentions of Scott Lynch, although I'll try and not pick Locke for everything. :P

Day 01 – Best book you read last year

This is a tie between two - Sniper One by Sgt Dan Mills (which I picked as the WOW of 2012 in my blog) and The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (which I went totally fangirl over).

Sniper One was very engaging and just perfect for research, as it has a lot of stuff about how snipers work and what it's like described by someone who actually knows their business (as opposed to someone who has just done their research - not that I frown on research, it's just not quite the same thing). It's also the first book on modern warfare that I've read and it showed me that it doesn't have to be boring and that I can actually enjoy it. I've got my own copy of it now, and am going to reread it at some point. Friends may want to prepare for a second round of flailing over it.

The Fractal Prince is the sequel to The Quantum Thief, a sci-fi novel about the master thief Jean de Flambeur. I liked Quantum Thief a whole lot, but Fractal Prince was even better! Rajaniemi's style is very precise and short, and boy, do I love it. Half the time I don't understand what it is he's saying (he's a mathematician), but it doesn't really matter because he says it so beautifully. Let me quote it, so you can see some of what I mean:

On the day the Hunter comes for me, I am killing ghost cats from the Schrödinger Box.

Q-dot tendrils like sparks from a Tesla coil trail from my fingers into the little box of lacquered wood floating in the middle of my cabin. Behind it, displayed on one gently curving wall, is the Highway – a constantly flowing river of spaceships and thoughtwisps, a starry brushstroke in the dark. A branch of gravitational artery through the Solar System our ship, Perhonen, is following from Mars to Earth. But today, I'm blind to its glory. My mind is the size of a black box, just big enough to hold a wedding ring, the mind of a god – or the key to my freedom.

(The Fractal Prince ch. 1)

If you don't like complicated time structures though, this book might kill you.

Maybe that's enough about those. I also liked all the Tolstoy I read, namely War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but not quite as much as these two. Thought I'd mention them anyway.

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