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mk  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tween scifi book recommendation.

Sounds about right. I haven't read it either.

Thanks.





thundara  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty sure I read it around that age. I didn't do any of the sequels to Ender's Game, since I thought they'd be over my head, but I enjoyed Ender's Shadow as well (described by the author as a parallax).

Would Neuromancer be appropriate here as well? I didn't read it until I was much older (I joined Hubski before I'd even heard of the book)

user-inactivated  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Neuromancer is too much for an 8th grader.

kleinbl00  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...I read it in 6th...

user-inactivated  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're right, Neuromancer is perfect fare for a kid fresh off the Hunger Games.

kleinbl00  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wonder how dated it would feel, but the prose isn't particularly challenging for that reading level, 'sall I'm sayin'.

user-inactivated  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I found the structure or pacing or something quite challenging. It was a struggle to read, kept wanting to put it down. Not the prose, obviously, although Gibson's penchant for teaching you the lingo as you go would surprise your average young adult reader in 2014, I think.

Neuromancer is something you build up to. Read a PKD first, maybe.

kleinbl00  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yikes. Diffrent strokes for diffrent folx. I've finished maybe 20% of all the PKDs I've ever started.

user-inactivated  ·  3619 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you've mentioned that before. It's strange because Neuromancer stirkes me as heavily influenced by Androids, maybe A Scanner Darkly.