Currently Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
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Dune: Messiah, second one in the series. Way better than I thought, and honestly don't get the criticism
I don't think there's much criticism around the first 2 or 3. God Emperor (4) is where it starts to get really weird, but it still definitely worth the read as it wraps up most of the original threads. 5 seemed way off to me and i couldn't finish 6. I loved 1-4 though.
In the edition the edition I have, his son spent a like half the foreword talking about the criticism (which is also a weird way to lead a book) so at the time it was released it seemed to be a thing at least!
Enjoyed it a lot. Curious how much weirder it gets
Almost done with Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Had a few friends and family members talk about how great the Dragonlance books are, but I grew up reading The Legend of Drizzt books. So far I absolutely love it, and if you play DnD I suggest you get a copy.
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Very interesting so far. I'm about a third of the way through it.
Finally almost finished with Neuromancer.
Then I'll be flipping to work mode and reading "The Grammar of Systems: From Order to Chaos & Back".
I'm finally reading The Expanse series, currently on book 2 and really loving it!
While I was waiting for book 2 to become available on Libby I read The Spare Man which I also enjoyed. It was a pretty goofy but fun light read (solving a murder on a cruise to Mars).
I'm reading The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris. It's non-fiction. Morris' books have a good narrative, but they are scholarly works. I haven't gotten very far into The Anglo-Saxons yet, but one bit I greatly enjoyed was the author drawing parallels between Beowulf and Tolkien's Rohirrim, all while discussing the archaeological evidence for feasting halls and the zeitgeist of the people who'd built those halls.
I just started Klara and the Sun. Also listening to The Amazing Adventures of Kavilier and Clay (Soo good).
Book Club is reading Accelerando (3rd time for me). Just finished Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise.
Next up: the new Cormac McCarthy, Consider Phlebas.
- The guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman : An engaging and narrative-driven recounting of WWI
- The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies - Clark Ashton Smith : A collection of Lovecraftian short stories and poetry. CAS is what you get when a poet writes Lovecraft stories
- German Philosophy 1760-1860 : The Legacy of Idealism : A book about Kant, Fichte, German Romanticism, Schilling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, etc
I just read Uprooted, by Naomi Novik, simply because it was available with no wait time on Libby. What a great find! I devoured it in two days. It has a really nice take on folkloric fantasy and magic, and a nice satisfying arc that explains enough, while leaving a good amount of mystery.
Nona the Ninth (third book in The Locked Tomb series, which starts with Gideon the Ninth)
I am absolutely loving this series, I had no idea what I was getting into. Solid plot, great style, fun, super clever. Highly recommend.
Nothing right now but I have Foundryside coming tomorrow which I am looking forward to
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This is going to hurt by Adam Kay, a funny biography from a UK first-year doctor
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I've just picked picked up The Girls by Emma Cline. Not far into it yet but the premise intrigues me with the combo of historical fiction + disaster girl vibes.
A historic description of the life of Finnish executioners. Pretty dope stuff!
The Case for Space by Robert Zubrin. It's really good so far, it goes into such detail you can really tell the guy has spent his career and lifetime seriously thinking about how humans might live outside of Earth whether that be the Moon, Mars or the Asteroid Belt.
Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor. As usual, I'm also slowly making my way through Joyce's Finnegans Wake in parallel to whatever else I'm reading.
A random question: is anybody aware of active modern writers with mastery of style comparable to Nabokov's?
Twig by Wildbow. A long web-series about a group of experiments in the dystopic biopunk 20s Crown States of America
Just getting started on the last book of the Cradle series by Will Wight. Enjoyed the first 11, and hoping it's as good!
I’m reading a Star Trek novel called “Killing Time” by Della van Hise. The first edition is infamous because it got recalled for being too slash-y lol.
I'm currently working my way through The Infinite and The Divine by Robert Rath. I think it could be enjoyable without knowledge of Warhammer 40k, but it is set in that universe. One of the better extended universe type stories I have read so far.
I also want to start in on some of the programming books sitting on my shelf, and maybe finally start on American Psycho, but so far I've been busier reading comics and stuff on Lemmy.
Currently reading/listening to the Dresden series, on White Night right now, listening while I travel for work and the books are great fun
House of Leaves. It's a strange book.
I'm reading The Historian by Elizabeth Tova. It's been a difficult read because I have to actively fight the urge to skip ahead and see what happens—the story is so tense and stressful and I can't take it LOL.