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jwharris28
Posted 2015-10-29 8:52 AM (#11589 - in reply to #10669)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1960s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I just started Thorns by Robert Silverberg because it was one of the three books I could get on audio for this reading challenge -- well of the 10 I selected to read. But it does seem like there are fewer 1960s SF classics on audio than there was for the 1950s challenge. It would have been just two audio books, but a handful of lesser Clifford Simak books showed up on Audible.com in the last couple weeks. For some reason, there is no Samuel R. Delany at all on audio. Only Stand on Zanzibar for John Brunner. Luckily, a handful of Robert Silverberg books have been showing up on audio, but mostly his 1970s titles.

Thorns starts out quite engaging. It's about a manipulating impresario who finds emotionally problem people to make famous. I haven't come to this part, but evidently there's some kind of TV or movie tech for emotional theater. I'm just guessing though.



Edited by jwharris28 2015-10-29 8:54 AM

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