Six Wakes | 
bailed#unpopularopinion I know a lot of people really enjoyed this book, but it's just not doing it for me. Maybe it's because I've just listened to two mysteries, I'm burnt out on solving murders, or maybe Lafferty isn't an author for me. I also bailed on The Shambling Guide to New York City. I think it's time for something lighter.
pickLoved this isolated thriller with a twist! Great characters and interesting discussions about the ethics and complications associated with cloning. First ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ of the year!
📗 Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
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📺 The Sandman
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pickIt's probably not evident from my selected quotes but I actually really enjoyed reading this. Okay, maybe 'enjoyed' is a stretch - it's less sci-fi adventure, more sci-fi thriller/horror/dystopia. Cautionary tale about worst case scenarios surrounding the idea of cloning, and what happens if you don't make an effort to grow as a being, leave old grudges and prejudices behind, compounded over multiple life spans. Sci Fi = Asks the big questions.
Sometimes self-hating, prejudiced, murderous vigilantes with a literally tortured past just need hugs. 🫤
Court-mandated mental health condition?!
Multiple personalities is, I think, diagnosed as Dissociative Identity Disorder these days.
Getting very tired of mental health condition being used to create narrative tension - it just perpetuates the harmful stigma that people with untreated/undiagnosed mental health condition are inherently untrustworthy/dangerous. 😑
pickA locked room murder mystery aboard a generation spaceship. All six crew members died and were reborn as clones of themselves, returning to a blood bath of their old corpses. All six have deep secrets and a strong incentive to have left Earth for a new beginning on another planet. Now nobody knows who to trust. AND the AI running their ship has been sabotaged. This audiobook read by the author (an experienced podcaster) kept me up past my bedtime!
Concurrent reads with small crews beginning to lose their sanity inside their respective vessels; one is a submersible deep in the ocean, the other is a starship deep in space.
New tea pot (no 5).
Going to curl up with some lovely herbal tea and the last 20% of the tagged book while the teenagers play Fortnite.
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"Sound struggled to make its way through the thick synth-amneo fluid. Once it reached Maria Arena's ears, it sounded like a chain saw: loud, insistent, and unending. She couldn't make out the words, but it didn't sound like a situation she wanted to be involved in."
so-soI picked this up after seeing a librarian do a book talk about it, and it sounded so interesting. Only problem was that I forgot how much I dislike science fiction! 😂
It actually wasn't bad -- although I really struggled getting into it, I started to enjoy the mystery aspects of it. While it wasn't really right for me, I would recommend it to sci-fi fans.
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 211
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pickanother good sci-fi read this year! I really enjoyed this murder mystery mash-up with cloning and a morally ambiguous cast. Lafferty really gets into details with the clone concepts and a lot of the associated moral quandaries. if I have any minor complaints I definitely would've loved to learn more about the captain and doctor's respective pasts. this is one of those books that sucked me in quickly after the first few chapters.
pick🎧 I‘m on a roll with the weirdo books 😝
A 6 clone crew of prison inmates & an AI on a generation spaceship are 25 years into a 400 yr trip when they wake up recloned to find their previous clones all murdered.
Clones Last 30-40 years then they create mind maps & move into an adult clone‘s body so you can die repeatedly & wake up in a new body with old memories.
Story starts with the murders then back to the beginning to solve them. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickThis was a great science fiction mystery story. And the Audiobook narration was five 🌟 too!
It is already dark, down to 40 degrees, and raining.
I don‘t want to leave the house for book club. But it‘s my book choice this month. And I‘m leading the discussion. So I gotta.
I really, REALLY don‘t want to. 😂
Relistening as I #audiobake because I picked this for my book club‘s December meeting.
It will be interesting to see what everyone thinks because this is the book club that mostly reads WWII novels, memoirs of conversion to Christianity, and generational family dramas.
#TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon @Clwojick 20 points for cooking + 1 point for participation (391 total)
Completed my Goodreads challenge (after reducing it several times 😬) This has been a year of rereading for me so far and I was worried I wouldn‘t even finish 100 books because of the reading funk I have been in but I‘m happy with this number and still a couple months to go 😊 #BookNerd 📚💙🤓
A group of clones with memory problems have to solve the mystery of what‘s happened to them all while dealing with a sometimes helpful, sometimes really, REALLY not helpful AI.
Is this the plot to amazing post-apocalyptic podcast Project Nova? Yes, but it is also the outline for equally amazing space mystery book Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty.
Both stories are fascinating, twisty mysteries, and worth a listen!
#bookcast2019
#AcrosstheUniverse #WeveOnlyJustBegun this novel as Maria wakes up on a ship in space in her clone body looking out at 5 other murdered cloned bodies. In this future, you can download your mind into a clone and live forever. The only problem? Nobody has any recollection of how their clone bodies were murdered. This was such a good space mystery that had to do with a lot of cloning issues. Good stuff!! #BeatleMaynia #MayMovieMagic
So I thought I would also post my #JanuaryStats for today‘s #Finale prompt #Overachiever 🤓📖
9,040 pages read, 17 Books, 1 graphic novel, ~ 292 pages read per day #NotTooShabby #ChunksterJanuary #Chunkster2019
#ANewChapter 🥂
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For today‘s #Wildcard prompt I thought I would post my #CurrentRead 🚀 I am loving this book so far! Definitely see why it was a Hugo & Nebula award finalist! #ANewChapter 🥂
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pickA murder mystery in space...
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This was gory and scary but character driven and quite interesting. I enjoyed it.
pickAn interesting murder mystery set space with underlying themes of revenge, humanity and the value of a human life.
⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
#scifi #audiobook
I've been doing the #readharder challenge this year, in a sort of half-hearted way. Mostly, it's reinforced my suspicion that reading challenges aren't my thing. Nevertheless, it would be nice to finish and I'm not sure when I would've gotten around to this otherwise.
panI nearly bailed in the first few chapters as I found the prose clunky & the dialogue awkward, which kept throwing me out of the story. I was curious enough to stick with it, but ultimately feel disappointed. I never grew attached to the characters and the whole thing feels like extended exposition; all tell, no show. Cool concept, interesting world (altho: I have so many questions), shame about the execution.
Finished one audiobook, listened to an hour of Needful Things, and now I'm switching from the audio to the physical book of Six Wakes. Very cool concept! #Readathon #deweys24hourreadathon
pickThis book was a lot of fun, and it kept me guessing until the end.
Doing some “research” for my next play commission by looking for sci-fi mysteries and this one is a doozy.
pickStop Squidapus if you've heard this one before; six clones wake up in a spaceship with their previous bodies all murdered and the last 25 years of memories missing. A very good story with mystery compounding mystery that astonishingly resolves in a pretty good way. While some characters get more development or characterization than others it's still entertaining to watch them pinball against each other and try to figure everything out
@JamieLou THANK YOU!! I‘m love this box, you have no idea how much I‘ve wanted to read Six Wakes!! Plus you hit on all my favs: unicorns, mermaids, Twizzlers and Cheetos!! Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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pickRead because it was nominated for SFF awards. Finished it in a day because I wanted to know what happened so it's a serviceable mystery.
Think that if a book is intended as a diverting/fun suspense rather than an insightful exploration of ethical issues it's best to acknowledge but step back a bit from said issues. There was one conversation on the theological implications of cloning I thought Six Wakes would be better without.
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so-soOverall, it was OK. I liked the premise and generation ship / future earth / future moon setting. There was just too much stabbing and blood for my tastes, though. The book was narrated by the author who read the book with the same voice throughout. I think I would've enjoyed the book much more with a professional narrator person. It was sometimes hard to keep track of who was talking. I wonder if I would've liked reading the paper book better?
And stabbed, and stabbed, and stabbed, and stabbed, and stabbed, and stabbed, and stabbed. So much blood pouring out of everyone. The quote sums up much of the plot. Finishing this 2018 Hugo nominee (!) and 2018 Nebula nominee (!!) today.
pickI really enjoyed reading this closed room mystery set on a generation space ship. It kept me turning the pages and guessing how it would be resolved.
