What book(s) are you reading right now and recommend for others?
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Yes! Got any recommendations for when I am finished with them?
Iain M Banks' Culture novels. Eon by Greg Bear.
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Gilgamesh the King, by Robert Silverberg
Silverberg is one of the greats.
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The Stand by Stephen King.
It's over 1200 pages long and I have always been scared of anything above six hundred pages.
It's so good. It's taking me a long time, but it's worth it. As always, Stephen King never let's you down. I just love his writing.
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Just finished them instead of reading them right now, but "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin. I liked the world building of the first far better, but it didn't hit at the politics I wanted to read about as much as I wanted, the second being the opposite.
I don't know why, but I just need content wrapped in sci-fi for me to find it enjoyable, and "The Dispossessed" in particular was what I was looking for, an exploration of anarchism grounded in examples and thought experiment.
Both of them are fantastic books, and definitely worth a read for anybody interested in science fiction, sexuality & gender, and anarchism.
Those are two of the best books I read last year.
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I just finished The Hair Carpet Weavers by Andreas Eschbach. One of the best first chapters I've read in a long time. Really interesting scifi book that I couldn't put down.
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Reading Anne Leckie's latest book, Translation State. If you're a fan of scifi, and especially space operas, I'd recommend her books, but start off with Ancillary Justice.
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Nearing the end of When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, which came out a few months ago. It's a bit silly but I'd recommend it. The premise can be summed up as, "What would happen if the moon turned into cheese?"
I'll have to check that one out when I finish the Old Man's War series.
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I've already finished it, but House of Leaves is amazing
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Re-reading Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" because its the best haunted house novel ever written.
I read The Lottery by her in High School. Damn that is a good short story
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The Great God Pan, which is a terrifying novel by Arthur Machen.
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley.
It's Not You by Dr Remani Durvusala, which is about how to escape from a narcissist and is the most helpful book.
Lita Ford's autobiography Living Like A Runaway.
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The Stand by Stephen King.
It's over 1200 pages long and I have always been scared of anything above six hundred pages.
It's so good. It's taking me a long time, but it's worth it. As always, Stephen King never let's you down. I just love his writing.
It's so epic though. Such a great book.
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The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
The Golem & The Jinni by Helene Wecker
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Such a great series. During covid lockdown for six weeks I was watching the TV series in the day and reading the novels in bed at night. I've never experienced media in quite the same way. They were both amazing. Amos is one of my all-time favourite characters in fiction.
I'm on book 7 and I kinda wanna finish the book series before I start the show. But yeah I agree it's been awesome so far.
I was worried that the show could be bad
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Slowly making my way through They Though They Were Free by Milton Mayer. Haunting comparisons to today.
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Price is a really wacky guy, and even he will admit he’s very much on the fringe. I would suggest Dan McClellan or Bart Ehrman over him.
Price is fringe, but when you consider that orthodoxy erased mountains of dissenting texts, it's only fringe because all other ideas were erased for more than a thousand years.
Marcion, for example, had followers for at least three centuries. And the only examples we have of his writing is in quotes from church fathers arguing against him. There was a purge of unorthodox ideas, but his version of spirituality could have won out and then what is currently the norm would have been fringe. Christianity had a stranglehold over Europe and dictated its own history.
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I recently started Blood Meridian. It's too early to tell if I like it yet, but I like McCarthy's other works I've read. I'm also listening to the audiobook adaption of Alien: Covenant. It's part of the Audible subscription right now, so I thought I'd give it a try. I like it a bit better than I remember liking the movie. It's pretty similar, but I feel like it adds a little more nuance to some character actions.
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I just finished Oryx and Crake the first of a trilogy by Margaret Atwood, I quite enjoyed it. It's a short of dystopian sci-fi. I was put off by her at first because I was forced to read her in high school but I'm glad I gave her another chance.
I'm starting Les Misérables in French in the hopes of improving my written French.
Also working my way through Weapons of the weak which is about forms of peasant resistance.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That's funny, I'm literally just about to start The Year of the Flood (it's on the bed next to me), the second in that Atwood trilogy! I thoroughly enjoyed Oryx and Crake when I read it a while back.
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Just finished Joseph Heller's Catch-22 for the umpteenth time. Always a classic.
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I'm partway through The Have and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultra Rich by Evan Osnos. It is a collection of essays originally published in the New Yorker dissecting the culture and fads of the modern Gilded Age.
I also STRONGLY recommend the Culture series by Iain Banks. It is perhaps the most realistic and well though out sci-fi utopia.
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The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
The Golem & The Jinni by Helene Wecker
I just started Excession!
