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: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook. It's book three in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which I'm enjoying a lot. Sometimes the game mechanic details get a little tiring, but they're typically meaningful to the larger story, or at least the action scenes. The human drama of it is where it really shines, tons of righteous indignation and coming together against adversity. Lots of humor sprinkled in. It can be a little crude and definitely very violent, I'd recommend it as long as those aren't deal breakers.
Current book: Citadel of the Autarch, fourth book in the New Sun series. It's good so far, building on the story of the first three books, interested to see how it reaches the situation foreshadowed in the first book via the framing device of this being a memoir written by the main character. The meandering plot with occasional tangent story-within-a-story have made it a slower read for me, but the surreality of it keeps it intriguing during the slower moments. I'd definitely recommend it, it's clear why this is a well regarded series, very different from my usual read.
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Not yet. I intended to watch it after finishing the first book.
Ah, sorry, don't want to put you off (bit late for that, I guess). Hopefully you enjoy it more than me!
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For me, the wheels came off the bus in the fourth book of Wheel of Time series. I realized I just didn’t care about another road trip where the gang becomes separated and runs off in different directions.
Yeah that too, you're right. You get hooked into the rythm of one group and, at the next chapter, you're taken away from them, following another part of the story in which you are not currently invested.
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Ah, sorry, don't want to put you off (bit late for that, I guess). Hopefully you enjoy it more than me!
wrote last edited by [email protected]Honestly, I haven't really been interested in TV shows in general much lately, so I'm not sure I would have bothered anyway. I checked out the trailer and even than shows that it seems to diverge quite a bit from the book.
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Last: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Current: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Lest you think I'm bragging, the one before that was Omegaverse fanfic.
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Listened to the audiobook version of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. I'd read it long ago and was surprised how differently I experienced listening to it. Recommended.
Currently finishing a read of the (British) Rough Guide to Cult Pop (2004) ... a book about pop/rock music and its makers from the 50s forward to to 20 years ago. Broken up into many sections, put together by a crew of Brit-wits, many interesting facts and stories about a half-century of chart hits. Strong recommend IF you're into that sort of thing, appreciate a bit-o-snark, and know most of the names already (or want to).
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I just finished Jonathan Maberry’s Kagen the Damned trilogy. If you’re into epic fantasy it’s a good read.l, even if feels a little rushed in places and the short chapters irked me slightly.
Now I’m starting How to Survive in Ancient Rome by Robert Garland.
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Last was war and peace, would recommend.
Currently "reading" Wisconsin • Minnesota | Midwest Bouldering Guidebooks to plan for an upcoming trip to devils lake. If you plan to go climbing there the book is awesome if not it would still be cool to page through if you are interested in climbing.
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Finished the fifth wheel of time book last week, about done with the sixth. They are awesome books. I cant wait till the main characters start fucking things up. Its coming.... i can feel it in my bones with every page.
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Last book: This is How You Lose the Time War - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_War
It was good. I don't normally like love-stories, but this was poetically written. A lot of fun sci-fi and beautiful imagery.Current book: Little Brother - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel)
Lots of fun hacking and rebellion against an increasingly authoritarian government, very much inspired by 9-11. It's a fun Young Adult Novel so far.Oh man I loved This Is How You Lose The Time War!
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Last book I read was Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I normally love his stuff, and I loved both Dogs of War and Bear Head, but Bee Speaker was awful. Such a disappointment.
Currently I'm reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
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Last book I read was Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I normally love his stuff, and I loved both Dogs of War and Bear Head, but Bee Speaker was awful. Such a disappointment.
Currently I'm reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
Oh no, I'm sad to hear Bee Speaker disappointed. It's on my list - I also loved Bear Head. I've just finished Empire of Black and Gold, first book in his Shadows of the Apt series. It was pretty good, good enough for me to try the next Apt book.
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Just finished Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky, very much enjoyed that. I've just started Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin. It's off to a cracking start - Rebus is in prison, what the what now?
As ever though I'm reading dozens of books. Most disappointing is John & Paul, A Love Story in Songs, by Ian Leslie. I bought it after going to a talk by the author. I'm a Beatles fan since childhood, so I thought it would be interesting. Well I guess I'm not a REAL Beatles fan, because I'm finding it tedious. Chapter 7 and it's still only 1962! I mean sure, it's fascinating that as a child, George Martin's family shared a communal lavatory with three other families, but please can we get back to the main subject?
Best of the rest is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, by Steve Brusatte. Section 4 and we're only up to the Cretaceous, lol. I love this book, not just for the critters, but for the paleontologists, some amazing characters with epic stories of working with teeny tiny bones.
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Finished the fifth wheel of time book last week, about done with the sixth. They are awesome books. I cant wait till the main characters start fucking things up. Its coming.... i can feel it in my bones with every page.
Jesus the rings of fire and death at the end. 5 outta 7 for that book right there. God i wish the show wasnt canceled.
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I liked Children of Memory better than the other two.
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Reading: Vladimir Bartol, Alamut
Arguably the best Slovenian book ever. It has a lot to say about power, manipulation, faith etc. Would 100% recommend. -
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I am always reading one of Jarod K Anderson's collections of poems and I recommend them to everyone.
Currently reading, "The Bullet Swallower" by Elizabeth James García. Yes, I would recommend it to any fans of magical realism and/or Cormac McCarthy.
Last book I read was "The Mirror and the Light" by Hilary Mantel. I would recommend it only to history nerds like me lol
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Currently working my way through the He Who Fights With Monsters audiobook series. It’s a LitRPG, so it comes with all of the trappings that entails. The main character can be a little insufferable at times, but it’s at least self-aware enough to recognize that and call it out. There have been several laugh-out-loud moments from references that I wasn’t expecting. It’s clear the writer is a big nerd with a fetish for bad 80’s films and philosophy. The narrator (Heath Miller) is fantastic.
My biggest complaint is more about the audiobook format; The series frequently rehashes character abilities. In a regular book, this wouldn’t be a problem. You could just turn the page and skip reading it. But for an audiobook, you can try skipping ahead but you’ll still inevitably end up listening to the same ability description that you have heard twenty times before. It also frequently rehashes things that just happened. That’s more a symptom of it gradually being released on the writer’s Patreon, before it is compiled into a full book. Rehash at the start of a chapter makes sense when you’re only reading a chapter per week. But when you’re listening to the entire book, the rehashes can get redundant.
Overall, I’d suggest it if you enjoy the genre. Even with the complaints, those are relatively minor and I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far.
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Oh man I loved This Is How You Lose The Time War!
Totally. If it had been described it to me, I'd have probably passed on it. But a friend of mine highly recommended it, and I'm glad that I listened. It's more interesting than it sounds, and its such a quick, enjoyable read.
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Last book: Perfume: The story of a murderer by Patrick Süskind. I ravaged through it quite fast and enjoyed the descriptive writing style immensely. It's supposedly a book with many intresting layers, but I loved as a novel about world of smell.
Currently: Though I tend to read several at the time depending on my mood, my main book is Breaking together: A freedom-loving response to collapse by Jem Bendell. I work with environmental stuff and I feel like we are past the point where ecological modernisation is a answer to all of our woes. It is well-written book and you can download it for free.
I loved Perfume. The movie is a lot of fun as well.
