Reading Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It, and couple of others, were recommended here recently, and is somewhat of a new genre for me, memoir / biography in graphic novel format, graphic memoir?

Got the omnibus edition, "The Complete Persepolis", it's a pretty interesting read. It's about young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution of 1979, at least the first volume, after that it's about her life after that.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Have you watched any of the Foundation series? I've watched the show but haven't read the novels so I'm wondering how close they are in terms of story, since adaptions to screen sometimes change significantly

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes I have watched the series, but not the newest season yet.

They’ve definitely truncated things and brought a few future story lines in, but like other series, casts change between books, so trying to keep story lines with main cast in place instead.

They’ve definitely truncated are also doing three story lines in one, Robots aren’t talked much about as they’re, you know gone. So all that lore is taken from the Robot series. Robots existed before the galactic empire was a thought in people’s minds.

And there’s no real stories about the galactic empire, you only know of the current Emperor because of Haris involvement. The three novels are more about humanity working towards to galactic empire. There’s a few Empires that have quite a few planets and are starting towards it.

All in all, most of his series were stand alone, until he used the last two (40 years after the others)foundation novels to combine them, there is SOME minor continuity errors because of this, just stuff shoehorned to combine, since there’s millennia between the series.

[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for the synopsis! I think I'll give them a read then

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Don’t know how much it matters to you, but I read them in publishing order. He wrote two books 40 years later as I mentioned, and one is a prequel, and one is a sequel. So depending on your preference…

I wouldn’t worry too much about the future storylines and why they aren’t happening together, they stand alone in their own, one to mention specifically was the end of last season teaser, the mind control guy. That’s the second book, but takes place well after Hari is gone. But the seeds he sowed… yeah read it.