Rice Cooker by Russell Hobbs
A classic.
I'm reading Labor's Untold Story. It's about the rise of unions. The latest chapter ended with a capitalist killing themselves, so pretty damn good so far.
Wtf....... why is it so expensive?
Heh... capitalism.
Fuck yes, this is a classic and a must read.
What's this one like? I LOVED the first book but found the second a little disappointing
It’s weird. I don’t hate it, but the author spends way too much time dealing with “timeline forks” (I’ll call it that to avoid spoilers) in a limited setting with a lot of reiteration and lack of any real plot advancement or character development. It’s not awful, I don’t hate it, but it’s a completely different book than the first or second. If you liked the first and didn’t care for the second you probably won’t like this one at all.
I'm not the Op, but I found book 3 even more of a let-down than book 2. Just felt a bit more contrived, even though it did add some valuable contributions to the universe, and I'll read book 4 when it comes out.
Off to a great start! It feels a lot faster paced than the first book
I'm on oathbringer, finally getting back into it after sitting on it for something like 6 years. On page 960 or so...
Great series. I'm on this one:
I wish I could read this again for the first time. Great series so far
I'm on the final book, trust me it gets so much better. Has become my favorite series of all time.
Girl dinner
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My second attempt.
As per suggestions from here!
Great book!
I have been enjoying it thoroughly! I wanna space it out but eventually work through The Culture series
Yup I probably read that 5 times
Nice, any suggestions on what to read next? Ideally from The Culture.
Any of them. I've read a few and none have been connected in any way, so I don't think the order matters. I think I started there and went to Use of Weapons next.
Right, I know they are all standalone novels. So my mect choice of book in the series either came from a suggestion from somebody or a die roll.
Being a tabletop gaming nerd and having a spiteful interest in game theory made The Player of Games an easy first choice.
Terry Pratchett Men at Arms
Terry Pratchett Snuff
I don't really read much, this is my first book since a couple years since I wanted something to do while on a plane. I really like it though, the court intrigue and attempts to consolidate power are interesting if you can keep up with all the different characters, and there are many. The author also uses quite a lot of not-so-common words, so as a non-native speaker you'll have to infer a bit from context but I didn't find it too bad.
Heyyy! I read that one some years back. I liked it. Quite good handling of realpolitik and racism in a fantasy setting. I especially liked that even with a main character that was as committed to positive change as possible, it still was a massive struggle to actually accomplish anything.
Quite a choice to get back into reading! It’s definitely not the easiest read with its court lingo and endless list of names and titles, but very nice that you enjoyed it nevertheless.
It’s one of my favourite books in somewhat ‘positive’ fantasy outlook that does not veer into kitsch. Whenever I think back to it I just remember feeling really cozy with the characters, even if it dealt with some real issues.
A few books ahead of you 😁 (wanted to finish over Christmas, but life... you know)
there's an order you're supposed to read them in?
Many people follow something like this reading order, or just read by publication date. For the death series I'd argue it's not that important, others depend on each other a bit more. It's definitely not a problem to just go in a random order though, he always tried to make the books stand on their own. In some ways I would argue it's way more fun to go randomly, but if you are easily confused by timelines you might not like it 😊
turns out I don't mind being confused :p
Great book—really looking forward to the film. Hope they do the book justice!
Oh it really is, I had to remind myself everytime I have work in the morning to stop reading and go to sleep lol Please suggest me a book for my next read.
If you liked Project Hail Mary, then you should read the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor. The premise is as follows:
Bob is dead. Long live Bob.
Software engineer Robert Johansen uses his share of the money from the buyout of his company (the rest having been split amongst the employees) to start a trust to support his end-of-life maintenance needs. But Bob's idea of "end-of-life" is being cryogenically frozen until such a time as whatever killed him can be fixed. What he wasn't counting on, however, was getting hit by a car later that day and waking up over a hundred years later. Finding that, not only has he not been revived, but instead digitised, but also that the christofascist government doesn't recognise him as a human or worthy of rights, he is surprised to also be informed that the reason they instantiated his consciousness was to become the guiding intelligence of a Von Neumann Probe, and that Bob is going to the stars... At least, he should be, as long as none of the opposing factions in the government or any of the other countries also building their own probes nuke him first.
Bobiverse is an example of hard science fiction, with similar limitations to what PHM uses. The primary conceits that go beyond what's currently assumed to be possible are:
- the assumption that it is possible to simulate consciousness using electronic media
- the existence of some method of interacting with the fabric of reality to warp spacetime through a reactionless drive (here called "subspace theory"). This assumption allows for interstellar travel over reasonable time scales (but not superluminal travel) and, later, communications. Think a combination of the "Ansible" and the Bussard ramjet from "Tau Zero"
- the fantasy that most people have comprehensible reasons for their actions.
They never do, so I'm not hopeful. But I'm still gonna watch it
Preparing for the movie I see 🙃 I love this, read several times over.
Not really, i came to know there's gonna be a movie when I was looking to download the book.
It's an older anthology but it checks out, sir.
Me too. The author isn't bad either
That book looks well loved. Covers like that make me happy
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A bit of light science I see!
It's a good read, the author goes into great detail about the dietary needs of giant flying lizards, and about the toxicity of hot sauce on their biology.
Miss so much reading to my kids, different happy times now but still miss that. They love books because we put the time to read them and they saw us reading, all winning all around.
Indeed! Proud of my little one, she doesn't know how to read yet, but she'll still grab as many books as she can carry to her bed and flip through them all 😅
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Such a fun one!!
For myself
With the kiddo
And theory
Oh man Erikson. You are, uhh, in the middle of an absolute leviathan of a series. I've re-read the main ten-book series a number of times and made new connections every time. Most of the side content has done nothing for me, however.
I finally started reading it. Saw a review that said "just read it. The less you know the better" so I got it. Haven't read it.
Went to dinner at cousins place who also heard good things, got the book, and hasn't read it. So I'm reading it for the both of us I guess
Literally recommended to me last night after our gaming session. Now, looking at the cover, I realize it was on my list of "I should definitely read that book!"
I just read that book. It took me a while to really start enjoying it. I think sticking with it was worth it though. I would definitely recommend it.
Title
Seeing the diaries labeled December 2011 to June 2012 threw me completely, and the rest of the diaries labeled as such is making me even more confused.
I was planning to go the cinema today. Movie is starting in 30 minutes, but this chapter is throwing me out, I'm staying to keep reading
Only Part 1 spoilers above
Love the recommendation of going in as blind as possible. You learn as you read
The reason it's best not to know much about this book is because it's like a puzzle game. The events and setting are kind of surreal and don't immediately make sense, and it's a lot of fun to be constantly thinking about possible hows and whys of everything.
I read White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link about the same time I read Piranesi, and I think they go well together as surreal fiction which is neither "lol random xD" nor pretentious.
Oh....
Spoilers I guess.....
Was ready to start part 2 when I get home
The brand new translation of LOTR.
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Does this count?
PIC18(L)F2X/4XK22 Data Sheet
Nice, that's a beast you got there. Some of those 8 bit pics don't have enough flash for printf.
What's funny is we're coding something fairly simple in assembly at my university, so even this PIC's resources are overkill for us (PIC18F45K22)
Having more instructions would be nice, though. Any loop other than a simple decfsz-goto loop requires some ingenuity
Nice. Asm probably has an advantage here. C's stupid integer promotion rules can sneak up on you and also blow up flash use. To avoid it, you need to cast everything in every math expression.
Wow! One of my least favorite Discworld books, but that cover is fantastic!
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman. I'm half way through book 7 and excited for book 8 to come out in a few months.
This is what I'm on too, though I'm a book behind you. Popcorn for the brain.
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Pretenders to the Throne of God
The fifth installment in the "Tyrant Philosophers" series, the fantasy series takes inspiration from the european independence movements of the 1840s. It is based in a world where magic isn't just real, but where hundreds of different magic systems all come together and clash, as each different culture has several ways that things are done. From helliers calling demons through contracts to work the industrial mills, to the leftovers from thousand-year-dead necromantic empires that locked themselves away in their tombs, to a city that has actually figured out utopia, and can work any miracle (but the city has a hard population cap) to minor gods who actively manifest and can do miracles, to the keepers of a mysterious forest that seems to allow people to move between realities... For a price.
Between them all (or, rather, surrounding them), we have the Palleseen: a new imperial power swiftly taking over the world. Strictly "rational", abhorring all gods, woowoo, and mumbo-jumbo, the Palleseen are all-business, exporting their "perfection" (in the form of absolute bureaucracy) to the rest of the world by diplomacy, and, failing that, the underside of an iron-shod army-regulation boot. From a Pal-occupied city turning into a powderkeg of rebellion, to the front lines of one of the Palleseen's ever-present wars, to a country facing the Pal's more diplomatic face, to a city under siege, we see this world the Pals seek to "perfect" through the eyes of the weirdos, the outcasts, and those whose livelihoods rely on the messy inefficiencies of human life (those whom the Palleseen philosophically reject, and yet rely on as integral parts of civilisation) we explore the perspectives, flaws and beautiful rube-goldberg collision of these weirdos, both those fighting against and as part of the Palleseen engine.
This series examines the inescapable fallacy of a system which claims to be perfect, and how systems that work require the flexibility afforded by diversity of thought. Through every crack we glimpse as the imperialist war machine plods implacably forward, we glimpse the inevitable fall of such a machine, and have to ask "at what point is there hope in standing against an unbeatable foe? Should you stand against it anyway?"
I loved his children of time series. This sounds amazing and I definitely will check it out. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely! Start with "City of Last Chances", then work your way through the rainbow (each successive book has a different accent color on the cover, in rainbow order)
- City of Last Chances - Red
- House of Open Wounds - Orange
- Days of Shattered Faith - Yellow
- Lives Of Bitter Rain - Green
- Pretenders to the Throne of God - Blue
Even the cover art is perfect. Every cover contains about ten references to the events, characters, and locations in the book.
I just finished this one. The evolution of the story and the final act was so satisfying.
Ooo is that the new version or the scp original one?
That's the new version. It depicts the giant, anti-memetically shielded ancient structure outside the site.
Audiobook while I drive, but still
Such an excellent series. Once you finish it, if you like it, check out his books "earthside" and "outland". Honestly, just read his entire oeuvre. Even his short stories are amazing.
Post-apocalyptic tale of tech-priests, kind of. It starts slow, and then you get used to it.
It only starts slow if you don't appreciate the unique humour of a world that has forgotten itself completely misinterpreting archeological artifacts in hilarious ways. This is one of my favourite books ever, in large part because of the description of Brother Francis' reactions and reasoning upon reading the words "fallout shelter", and other such examples of the beautifully dry and matter-of-fact humour present throughout the book.
Yeah, I'm also enjoying that. I've been working my way through Catch 22 as well, and the humor has a bit of the same dryness, but I wonder if this book has a little more humanity to it.
I think that you'll find that it does, by the end. Its a shockingly hopeful and beautiful book, for a story whose primary lesson is "humanity never learns from its mistakes, people die, and the uncaring world moves on"
Enshittification by Cory doctorow
I just finished The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion, a queer anarchist horror novella about a trans travelpunk hunting a demon with a group of anarchists whose commune is about to go to shit. It's a pretty fun read, I am looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.
I enjoyed this and the sequel "The Barrow Will send what it May."
And everything else the author has written.
I do plan to read that one and "the immortal choir holds every voice" as well, but it seems to not be available from their site or patreon so I requested both it and the sapling cage from my local bookshop and am currently waiting on that
Book 7 of " Dungeon crawler Carl " series by Matt Dinniman.
I'm on book 5 myself and have been really enjoying the series.
Damnit. I had the numbering wrong. I thought 7 was the new one to be released this year. I got all excited thinking it dropped already.
Three Body Problem
Nice! I just finished The Crippled God the other day!
We should make a malazan fedi
Haha! That cover is kinda ass. Great book, though. Maybe my favorite in the series.
Just re-reading my favorite fantasy series for the umpteenth time
I just started reading book one, the world building is absolutely fantastic. I feel most high fantasy books are really hit or miss for me, but I understand now why Sanderson is considered top tier. Looking forward to the rest of the books, and also the Mistborn series!
It’s amazing worldbuilding but fair warning, many consider the Stormlight books to drop considerably in writing quality for the last entries. Take them slow and enjoy the ride without burning yourself out on the (huge) amount of pages.
Mistborn on the other hand, you can feel that they’re somewhat older books of his, with a few more awkward/obvious character elements but they stay fantastic throughout.
The payoff in Mistborn made the series for me. Really stuck the landing.
If anything, it could have used more meat at the center. Book one as a high fantasy heist was great. Two and three felt like a sprint through what should have maybe been another hundred pages each.
But it's still my favorite Sanderson work to date, not including the last three books of Wheel of Time
Honestly, I really liked the last couple of storm light books. They definitely feel different than the first three, but I still really enjoyed them.
First Contact, exploration of consciousness, sentience/intelligence (and their relationship), Transhumanism, Hard Sci-fi, not challenging but it will not hold your hand through the book.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the book has vampires, but explored in a reality where vampires are an extinct offshoot of homosapiens, resurrected for specific purpose. The explanation of vampires is fascinating, grounded in evolution and actually... believable? This is not a vampire book at all but their presence is not only plausible, it's core to the themes of the book. Highly recommended.
One of the best books I've ever read. Central thesis is absolutely mind-blowing, it'll unfold in your mind like a horrible realization. 10/10 would get existential dread from again
Also recommend, excellent book.
Hate vampire books, but love this book. It's not a vampire book, but the vampires in it are handled in a crazy cool way. Highly recommend.
The sequel is a bit.. it's fine. Still good. Required reading. It's got nothing on the first book though.
The most depressing scifi!
Loved it, but omg what a psychological load to wrestle with. Feels like Asimov took a bad acid trip
Working through the Three Body Problem trilogy. Absolutely loving it so far and open to recommendations if you've got em.
Planning to read Ball Lightning next and potentially pivot to Mistborn next.
I'm at the start of the second of the trilogy. Planning on moving to the Dune series next
I wonder what tankies think of the opening of Three Body Problem
Presumably: "The three body problem is not praxis. The fact that it is so popular among the imperialist libs is evidence that it is all propaganda!"
I'm trying to give Lemmy MLs the benefit of the doubt that they're not just groupthink tribalists but only a couple of people seem to defy that
Probably the same thing an American Patriot thinks about Washington owning slaves or Lincoln aiding in the genocide of American natives.
The whole series struggles with righteous people making horrible choices.
LOL, I'm very tired right now and read, "book checkpoint," and thought, "...do they mean a fucking bookmark?"
I loved the prequel, wasn't that into the original
This is abuse of authority and police brutality 😭
more please
It's interesting, but on the subjects of Grant and Sherman in particular the text goes out of its way to paint them as anti-Reconstruction or Reconstruction-skeptical, even when the immediately preceding or succeeding sentence in the original text directly contradicts it.
Sherman's opinions changed with time, and radically so. Not that Sherman in particular isn't chalk-full of horrific opinions even at the latest possible point, mind, only that it's not entirely fair to paint him, as one popular history put him, as the original "unreconstructed rebel" when his entire trajectory was increasingly pro-African-American even through a period when white Americans as a whole began to lose their stomach for the fight for equality.
But Grant in particular is a sore point for me, since Grant went far out of his way to support racial equality, even though his strong support for civil rights literally split 'his' party in two. He may not have been the most radical Republican, but he also was far from lukewarm on equal civil rights or a simple opportunist.
Nevertheless, it certainly cites a wide variety of primary sources and makes otherwise compelling arguments. The only downside of a book is that picking the author's mind on specific points is much harder. :p
Just started the bread book
What is the bread book? I presume some seminal work of anarcho-socialist praxis, given the OP's response?
The actual name of the book is The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin and yes, its one of the most recomended books on anarcho-socialism
Thanks!
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. I am halfway and understood nothing. 5/5, would recommend.
Haha! I finally got around to this one about a year ago. NGL, it was a total slog. I managed to finish it, and I'm glad I did, but I don't think I'll be revisiting anytime soon.
Yeah, it is dense and boring (as well as torturous) by design. When I finish, maybe I read bits and pieces, but not the whole thing. Still, it is an experience.
Yes, "an experience" describes it perfectly. It manages to evoke a lot of complex emotions. Humor, tension, elation, boredom, disgust, horror...
Kimi no Hanashi by Miaki Sugar One of my favorite Novels author
Physical book: I'm re-reading House of Leaves
Audio book: I'm listening to the latest Wandering Inn book
I was wondering if I'd see House of Leaves on here.. I haven't read it yet but the odd style is alluring to me. I wonder if it'd keep me more engaged or if I'd have fun reading it but not have any retention
What's your take on that? Was it uncomfortably difficult to read some of the pages?
I found a lot of the formatting choices to be hostile, and I wasn't at all invested in the narrative, so I dropped it. The intro being all "This book is really spooky, you guys. It's going to do a Cthulu on your brain," was incredibly off-putting.
I agree that the style is alluring. I imagine there's a significant degree of added difficulty in getting a book published with unique and varied formatting, especially where color is made meaningful. I'd like to see more books like it.
There we go, I was struggling to put it into words. "Hostile formatting" definitely hits the nail on the head. But while that might be off-putting to some, and definitely doesn't make it an easy read, it's a big part of why I think the book is brilliant. You are not supposed to be comfortable reading it. Nothing about the subject matter is all that disturbing really, a few slightly spooky things, but nothing macabre or sadistic. But the formatting itself is what makes it unnerving. I think the dedication at the beginning of the book sets the tone perfectly:
"This is not for you."
The whole book feels like you are uncovering something that you aren't meant to know. Like reading a private diary put together by multiple schizophrenics who all glimpsed some small part of the true secret of the universe, all contained within a house that's bigger on the inside.
None😅
(I really should read more though)
Children of Dune
Currently reading this as well. IMO the first book was real good, but the second one didnt really capture me like the first did.
Third one again has me invested again.
I really enjoyed the first book but then quit reading halfway through the second. I was not enjoying it at all.
I'm enjoying house corrino currently.
Yeah, it's one of the quasi-cannon ones, I know...
Ain't planning to read all the 20 books than Frank Herbert son wroted, but i really curious about the butlerian jihad
Yeah, the start was awesome!
I really enjoyed that, then reading about too holtzman and Norma cenva developing glow globes, FTL, digging into the feud between atreides and Harkonnen etc...
Its a lot of characters to stay on top of though and the writing isn't nearly as good.
Why yes I am crashing out over the blasé, abject cruelty of normal average humans. How could you tell?
This is also what Im currently reading.
Read a few paragraphs out to my therapist this week because the waiting room read was too good. P.76-78 if youre curious
Its 15 years after my first read through, this book continues to make an impact in me and my understanding of suffering.
That's weird, those pages in my copy are the blank divider pages between the two parts. What was it? Is it the end of part one because that is really salient for me.
Yeah that's exactly why I got it. I thought if I was just going to let my identity become this sad sack of shit then I should at least try to understand suffering from people who have had it far worse than me.
Accidentally read book #4 first and am now going back to read the first one.
I read this forever ago and grabbed the sequel, this book is full of spiders. Didn’t know he kept going with it. I’ll have to grab the others.
Book four was great enough to hook me.
Love this one! His Zoe Ashe series is really good too. He writes under Jason Pargin now if anyone searches for his newer stuff
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. LeGuin, just finished it, it's a pretty quick read. I started with The Dispossessed and decided to go back and read her sci-fi novels in the order they were written. Not quite as much social commentary in this one which is what I liked most about The Dispossessed, but still enjoyable, and an interesting blend of fantasy and sci-fi.
The House of Blades by Will Wight. His writing style is so fast-paced and the action scenes are a lot like Mistborn's. Wight also happens to work with the same enthusiasm as Sanderson and has about 26 books written since 2011. All of his books also happen to take place across parallel realities called "Iterations" with different magic systems all using similar underlying principles. I'm still early on in his bibliography but I've been enjoying it a lot so far.
I loved Cradle and The Last Horizon series. This one was good but I liked those two much more.
i've been a little disappointed in this third book in the trilogy. it's extremely horny for some reason
I'm usually enjoying Sanderson's long novels more, but his short form fiction is also pretty damn good.
Roadside Picnic tells a story about an alien visit to earth, however they all already left and only some of their stuff remained in incredibly dangerous Zones. At the beginning of the book we follow Red, a Stalker, they wander into the Zone and try to escape with their lives, if they are lucky they will bring some alien artifacts and sell them to the highest bidder.
The book is much more firm that the Zone was created by aliens, and brings you to question that, if there where aliens, would they try and talk to us or even see us as intelligent?
The story was heavily adapted for the games (called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.), but I also enjoy them very much.
Nice book, i read when i was monitor of OOP on the college, the studants only start to go to my classes after the first exam, so i got a lot of time to read
This has been on my reading list for awhile, ever since I watched the movie. If I understood correctly the games (and the movie) more or less borrow key ideas from the book rather than made a faithful adaptation. Hope to read this soon.
Yes, they got "the vibe" of the Zone, it's cruelty, it's unforgiveness, it's beauty and several other aspects, but scratched everything else. Honestly I think it was a good call for the games, it leads to more definitive ending. As for the movie, it's certainly better for not telling what the Zone is, unlike the book, that opens up explaining it.
Honestly I like the terror of the Zone simply existing for no comprehensible reason instead saying outright what it is. But the horror of the book is also great.
A book about the history of trolls from the nordic mythology to the internet by a professor for ancient German and Nordic studies.
It's "a book featuring an unlikely friendship" for the March slot of my book challenge:
Akumetsu. Batman, if he wanted to destroy the institutional corruption of Gotham.
I it any good?
I am on Chapter 4, haven't looked at exercises yet. Up to here, it was relatively easy to follow if you have some prob/stats background. Exposition is sometimes a bit dry (though exercises probably give more substence) but overall I did learn some interesting stuff, like Asymptomatic Equipartition Property and Entropy Rates for Stoch. Systems. My main motivation is to learn connections to Thermodynamics and entropy etc for continuous rv which hasn't come yet but is in the book.
I just read A World Appears by Michael Pollan on a flight today. Honestly I was a bit disappointed, it was a pleasant read but I dont think there was a single novel bit where I thought "oh I didn't know that or haven't thought about that". I'm probably not the target audience (or rather, 14 year old me might have been but 41 year old me is yawning) but if you haven't thought much about what consciousness is all about I'd still recommend it.
I’m enjoying it. First book I’ve read by this author, but he also wrote True Grit. It’s about a guy who founds a group like the Masons, devoted to the ostensible lost wisdom of Atlantis.
If game books count, Draw Steel has been super fun. If not, Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
I bought it at a thrift market and holy crap for a book written in the 1960s it's prescient. He's mostly talking about "poor countries" but a lot of what he says is painfully applicable to people living in the US today. I'm about to read the second half of the book about "rich countries" and can't wait to see what he says.
The Communist Manifesto
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin is one, but I've also been chewing through the Murderbot series
The Muderbot show has been pretty good. I think the cut aways to the SciFi slop he watches is some of the best material, but it's fun all around.
The Broken Earth trilogy just didn't hook me, though. I think if I hadn't ingested so much high fantasy over a lifetime, it could have been good. But at a base level, it just felt like something I'd already read. Same with The Poppy War.
At some point, I think I just want to read the histories, rather than the Fantasy Inspired By the histories.
I haven't read too much high fantasy in my life, so maybe that's why I'm mostly enjoying it. I've decided I haven't been reading enough for many years, so this year that's changing. At 13 books so far I think! Was looking for sci-fi recommendations online and this trilogy was one I hadn't heard of. Think I might go down the Hugo & Nebula award winners list for a while.
Do you have any sci-fi/fantasy recommends?
You can't go wrong with the classics. I'm a big fan of Asimov's I, Robot and Foundation. Le Guin's Hanish Cycle is fantastic, particularly The Dispossessed. I loved Dune and Ender's Game (although their sequels are mid).
If you want some pop SciFi, try Timothy Zhan's Hier to the Empire or Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina. The Bobverse was also a lot of fun.
On the fantasy side, I've got a deep fondness for Raymond E. Fiest's Magician series, although I'll admit the later books in the series don't hold up as well as the first few trilogies.
Also, huge nerd for H.P. Lovecraft
Thank you! I actually read the very first magician a long time ago; a friend we visited while traveling lent it to me. Now I know there's a trilogy I'll have to check it out!
Pretty interesting and involved delve into the 1920s pandemic (often called the Spanish Flu in America) and the history behind what made it (and society) different from previous epidemics.
Ahh, the influenza outbreak of 1920 (Spain gets a bad rap because they reported it first even thought it was already running rampant through other countries).
Ken Follet - The Evening and the Morning
I picked up a copy of The Art of War for a few bucks. I've read it before, but I'm reading it again with hopes of teaching it to my kid in conjunction to teaching him Magic the Gathering. 90% of my success in life comes from implementing skills I learned from mtg into other things and Sun Tsu is basically a primer for good magic strategy.
After that it's Tao Te Ching. So by high school he'll have the skills to change wheat he can and the understanding to weather what he can't.
Art of War is really good. It's not about war, and not an ethical guide, but it's about strategy and decision-making, which behooves anyone.
That's exactly my point in teaching it. Ethics are something he came into by nature but good strategy and the assessment of variables is something he is not good at. I think it will do him well.
Its a good idea, but keep in mind you can only learn so much without first hand experience. That said, going through rough times for the first time is easier with people supporting and giving advice like you are now.
Hard to be a God
Futuristic earth scientists are secretly studying life on a medieval planet, disguised as local nobility. One of these scientists struggles to remain aloof while the king and his minister enact a progrom against those intellectuals who history would otherwise remember as the geniuses of their era.
When a coup against the government brings even more violence and brutality, this scientist is pushed to his limit.
This novel also spawned two pretty good film adaptations.
Just finished 580 pages of steamship and railway business dickering.
Now on to something where the vampires are less metaphoric.
I love the bit where he wants to use his massive steam ship to just run over the ironclads.
I was disappointed they didn't say anything about when they built him into his distinctive aerodynamic casing.
I assume there was some Machine Spirit crap going on there since it was almost 50 years after his death.
Tää on kyllä kova. Viimeksi teininä lukenut, mutta vieläkin juoni ja osa henkilöistä on hyvässä muistissa.
Do not read in public, at work, during lunch breaks.... but, a very vivid graphic novel about society's voyeristic views of sex and violence.
Been enjoying most of these stories. A few fall flat though.
I'm most of the way through contact harvest,
The bloodsworn saga by John gwyne.
It was pretty good. Ended abruptly I thought. considering what the writer went through was a satisfying conclusion if rushed.
Melmoth the Wanderer
It's slow going for me though
Background pony
Trying to get into Dupont Dynasty, I need to spend more time reading.
Sci Fi book week for me
I have this one on my wish list on LibroFM. How is it?
Passport to Magonia by Jaques Vallée, crazy alien junk.
"The wager I actually really enjoyed it, currently in South America, but sadly I don't have time to go visit it
Fun stuff. I feel like I'm getting drunk just reading it.
I enjoyed White Noise so much I decided to read another.
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I put down Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio to read Project Hail Mary before the movie comes out. Both good books. I'm enjoying Hail Mary a lot more though. I powered through the first 150 pages in 2 days. It took me like 2 months to do that with Kingdoms of Death.
You’re under arrest?
Shares a lot with Dungeon Crawler Carl but takes itself a little more seriously. I’m on book 5 or 14.
I love ddc. Ill put it on my read list, thanks 👍
I'm like 2 chapters in to the 3rd Dresden files book. One of my friends recommended the series to me but I'm still not really sold on it... at least they're pretty short.
I just started this series! I'm halfway through Book 1. I've heard they get a ton better.
They do and they don't. Depends on what you like about then. They get less "m'lady" creepy later on, but they also get increasingly convoluted. The series is also not finished and he's taking longer and longer between books at this point.
So far I like the world, the magic. I like Dresden so far, in spite of the m'lady stuff. I'm expecting monster of the week mysteries with some over arching mystery. Like Buffy or Supernatural in book form.
I'm hoping the mystery payoff doesn't suck or be too Scooby-Doo-esque when it's solved.
I don't remember the end of the first book off the top of my head, even though I re-read all the books last year. It's definitely not the best one. Probably not the worst, either. All of the books are at least some good, dumb fun, if not high literature. And you pretty much nailed it: It is monster-of-the-week-with-overarching-plot-slowly-revealed. The monster of the week aspect is mostly phased out for the overarching stuff later on. The 18th book just came out. I should get on that while most of them are still fresh in my mind.
My uncle wrote this
Rereading "A Deadly Education" by Naomi Novik so I can finally get around to reading the rest of the Scholomance series.
I don't know if this counts because it is a collection of poems, but it is nice to read from it before going to bed
The War of Art
The Latehomecomer.
It's a memoir about a woman who was born in a Thai refugee camp during the Secret War who immigrated to Minnesota and became an author.
I highly recommend it. It's one of my favorites.
I'm too busy to keep reading, but damn, it is good
This is book three of her Coldfire Trilogy. It's pretty innovative for its time in how it presents as science fiction, but adheres to very standard fantasy tropes. The world building is fantastic. I could take-or-leave the characters and story unfortunately. It's not without its moments. I think the three books got steadily better.
Didn't figure Chris Claremont was a novelist, but I like trying new things. Got it at a used book store a few towns away from me.
I've been trying to read Thank You, Jeeves by pg wodehouse but it's a little difficult to read for me
If anyone builds it everyone dies
It's a re-read but Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
Hey me too! When I read a long series I try to read something else in between, but I'm excited to continue with Foundation's Edge
im reading Elric of Melniboné. its been a pretty cool read for me so far
Percy Jackson The lightning thief
Going back through The Mallorean.
Almost as many upvotes as comments. Well done.
