What book did you read last and what book are you currently reading? Would you recommend either of those books?
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Last Book: Is Math Real? - Eugenia Chang
Reading: The Greeks, A Global history - Roderick Beaton
I would recommend both if either subject interests you.
"Is Math Real?" is a really fun book, and gives the brain a lot to chew on. It asks the "stupid questions" of math and explains why they aren't so stupid.
"The Greeks" is incredibly well written and researched, and goes into many details that aren't well known about Greek history. This is a subject that has always interested me because of my heritage, and I have learned a lot.
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Last book: Murderbot Diaries - Network Effect by Martha Wells
Current book: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
The first book is really fun. Lot's of action and witty characters with a lot of development.
The second book might change your life. It made me realize just how much emotion I've not been letting myself feel for the last two decades.
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Last finished: The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind by Dan Davies.
Currently reading: Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism by Leif Weatherby.
They’re about how two mid-20th century intellectual movements (cybernetics and structuralism, respectively) that would have provided valuable tools for managing contemporary issues (institutional collapse and artificial intelligence) were sidetracked in the 70s and 80s by other movements (neoliberalism and poststructuralism), and proposals for updating them for our present needs.
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Last Book: Is Math Real? - Eugenia Chang
Reading: The Greeks, A Global history - Roderick Beaton
I would recommend both if either subject interests you.
"Is Math Real?" is a really fun book, and gives the brain a lot to chew on. It asks the "stupid questions" of math and explains why they aren't so stupid.
"The Greeks" is incredibly well written and researched, and goes into many details that aren't well known about Greek history. This is a subject that has always interested me because of my heritage, and I have learned a lot.
Would you care to share any examples of the math questions?
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Currently reading: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3) by Matt Dinniman
Last read: The End of Ordinary by Edward AshtonI recommend both! The Dungeon crawler series is waaaay messed up and pretty funny.
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The last book I read was Monstrous Regiment, a Discworld book that had somehow slipped past me.
It was pretty good. It's more or less a stand alone book in the setting with some minor cameos by established characters. There is one conceit that the book runs on, which you'll likely catch onto early, but it manages to mix up how it uses that conceit to keep it fresh enough. The ending big action set piece is contrived even for Discworld action, but the book really isn't about the action anyway so it gets a pass. B+ book, one of the lesser Discworld books which still puts it way above most other books.
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The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
100%
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I was reading the He Who Fights With Monsters and that is lots of fun. I finished book 12 so I have to wait. But its a great story arch of how a nobody could become a god like powerful character by defiance and resistance to what what is the normal.
I went back to the Hell Divers books series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Its totally pulp fiction but the big picture story is great. Some of the in-between can get stale.
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Last book (reading with my kid): The Wild Robot Escapes. Definitely would recommend, nearly on par with the first.
Current book: The Wild Robot Protects. Would recommend if you’re a fan of the series; otherwise, it seems like a step down so far.
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Last book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Current book: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Never Let Me Go was not my favorite book, but not a waste of time either. The story had some good highs and lows but it did not resonate with me personally.
Hyperion is excellent so far, I'm about halfway through and Simmons gives just enough information at the right time and pace to build the world out slowly and thoroughly, and each short story so far has left me contemplating for hours afterward. Definitely enjoying the journey so far but I have been warned not to expect definitive answers towards the end, so we'll see.
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Last book: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Current book: Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer
Doctor Sleep was good, it's been a long time since I read The Shining but this was a good follow-up. The movie is pretty decent too, but as always not as good as the book.
Absolution is the fourth book in Vandermeer's Southern Reach series. It's a challenging read, as are the other books but not bad so far. I don't think this is what I was expecting from a fourth book, but I'm not disappointed.
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Last book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Current book: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Never Let Me Go was not my favorite book, but not a waste of time either. The story had some good highs and lows but it did not resonate with me personally.
Hyperion is excellent so far, I'm about halfway through and Simmons gives just enough information at the right time and pace to build the world out slowly and thoroughly, and each short story so far has left me contemplating for hours afterward. Definitely enjoying the journey so far but I have been warned not to expect definitive answers towards the end, so we'll see.
Hyperion is my standard for space operas. The following book is pretty good and answers some things, but the rest of the series lacks the same poetic grandeur
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Last finished: Deadhouse Gates (2nd Malazan novel), not sure what I think of the series yet, it has engaging parts, but too much violence for my mood atm (don't need dying refugees in my entertainment).
Now: The Last Continent, Discworld is always recommended.
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Last book: Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Current book: not really reading anything right now but I should be, not sure what it will be, maybe this nice list will help
I definitely recommend Musashi.
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Last book I finished was Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Good read.
The books I'm currently reading -
Mainly 'The Three Body Problem' by Liu Cixin. Thoroughly engrossing.
Also a chapter or two a night of 'Unlock Your Comic Genius' by Adam Bloom, dipping in and out of 'Before and Laughter' by Jimmy Carr, because I'm interested in the art of stand up comedy, and 'The Lost Stories' by Terry Pratchett. Also working my way through my old Asterix comics that I dug out of storage recently.
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Last book I finished was Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Solid read, get it done before the movie comes out.
About to start the Kaiju Preservation Project by John Scalzi, no idea on that one yet, but Scalzi does good work in general.
Last one I can't reccomend is The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville and Keanu Reeves. I'm a big fan of the BRZRKR comics so I jumped at the chance for a novel in that universe... aaand it's largely unreadable.
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Last finished was Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey. It's a haunted house story with a twist. I would recommend to people who like horror.
Currently reading a first aid manual, On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, and The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. The first aid manual is handy, but reading it doesn't do much good without training and experience. OT is short and good, very on the nose for this Trump term. Woman in Black is another horror book; from 1983 and proving "elevated horror" isn't a new thing.
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Last book: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček. Delightfully surreal fantasy; highest recommendation. Almost purposefully confusing at times, it wants you to infer the bizarre structure of its world through the mysteries it presents rather than ever try to over-explain itself.
Current book: Everything Must Go, The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey. Also strong recommend. I've been feeling rather apocalyptic lately due to the everything and some dramatic life changes I'm going through and this is having the intended effect. By taking an unflinching, academic (yet sometimes humrous) look at various eschatological stories they become demystified and help reduce the anxiety. Do we really believe we'll be the lucky generation to witness the closure of all things? Probably not. But also ... maybe?
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The last book I read was Monstrous Regiment, a Discworld book that had somehow slipped past me.
It was pretty good. It's more or less a stand alone book in the setting with some minor cameos by established characters. There is one conceit that the book runs on, which you'll likely catch onto early, but it manages to mix up how it uses that conceit to keep it fresh enough. The ending big action set piece is contrived even for Discworld action, but the book really isn't about the action anyway so it gets a pass. B+ book, one of the lesser Discworld books which still puts it way above most other books.
Such an awesome universe.
