Hello Everyone!
What are you all reading?
I am currently going through a re-read of Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Currently on 2nd book, Fool Moon.
Currently reading Blood of Elves.
Ah, The Witcher series. How are you liking it? Have you played any games? Or coming to it from the TV show?
Hehe, I’ve bought Witcher 3 but haven’t really gotten that far, and I’ve seen the TV series although not a huge fan. I guess I just picked up the books from seeing lots of recommendations online - love it so far!
Ah, nice.
BTW I heard there is another Witcher book in the works, releasing next year. Haven’t confirmed the news yet though.
Awesome! 🙏 let’s hope so
I just finished Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Overall, I really enjoyed it.
I just finished Project Hail Mary. A wonderful and fun read. Highly recommend if you like science fiction.
Ward by wildbow. Not technically a book but it’s wonderful if you are into that genre and honestly probably still good if you aren’t. Finished worm and while back and would definitely recommend that as well
To give a brief idea it’s “what if super powers came from incredible trauma and were designed to be the worst possible power for them specifically” there’s a lot more to it like A LOT but that is a general idea.
Worm follows Taylor and her journey after gaining power. It’s essentially her struggle to be in control of everything that goes on around her
Ward follows Victoria dallon and her struggle to manage a bunch of traumatized young adults as a hero team while dealing with a severely fucked up family
Just read an erotic romance, Heart of the Mountain by Snek Guy. It is about a mercenary going up a mountain to slay a dragon and take her hoard of gold. Things don’t go quite as he planned. It was well written, but a bit too much smut for my taste. I wrote a bit more here.
Just started the My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror series.
Metro 2033
Great book. I’ve started to read it after finishing the PC game:)
I started the games a while back and somehow screwed up and started on the second one lol. Once I found that out I dropped it… Just currently working through the audio books right now. I’ll replay them in the winter. In order this time :)
Is there any similar book but in Cyberpunk 2077 world?
Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
I really like how characters in this book think things through logically before acting.
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
By far liked it. His style is surely captivating.
The Cuckoo’s Egg…a nonfiction about catching a computer hacker in the 1980’s. Great book if you are a techie.
I’m pretty capable of setting down a book for extended periods of time and remembering everything when I pick it back up, and have a habit of hopping between books; so the list that I’m “currently” reading is… large. That said, focusing on the most active ones:
I’m just gonna say Discworld, for reasons elsewhere expounded upon. Mostly working through the City Watch stuff at the moment, Jingo should be on my doorstep in the next couple days. Knocked out Mort while I was waiting for it, might do Reaper Man too if it takes much longer.
I’m also thumbing my way through The Selfish Gene; I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of memetics, and that’s its birthplace (while also being a pretty potent contextualization of evolutionary biology). Probably gonna pick up Extended Phenotype when I’m done.
Then there’s Tristram Shandy, which I’ve had for a while but only recently had a chance to start properly. It’s fun so far, takes a minute to get used to the writing style which is simultaneously archaic by modern standards and progressive for the time. I think “hobby-horsical” is gonna find a permanent home in my vocabulary.
Got about halfway through Gravity’s Rainbow on a cruise a few years back, I might pick that back up soon actually now that I think of it. That one’s pretty dense though, I might need to go back and skim what I read already to remember the character names.
Technically I’m listening to this one because he did read-throughs of a bunch of his books during COVID and I like the extra context he added, but Lon Milo DuQuette’s ‘Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot’. If you’re into that sorta thing, I highly recommend DuQuette’s work, he’s both very knowledgeable and very accommodating to the casual reader.
There are a few other books living on my coffee table, but those are the most active right now.
I’m a little over halfway through “Devils unto Dust” by Emma Berquist. It’s a zombie story set in late 19th century Texas. It took me a while to decide to read it, as honestly I just wasn’t that into another zombie story. But damn is it well written!
Stealing the book description:
Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you.
A horrifying sickness has spread across the West Texas desert. Infected people—shakes—attack the living, and the surviving towns are only as safe as their perimeter walls are strong. The state is all but quarantined from the rest of the country. Glory, Texas, is a near ghost town. Still, seventeen-year-old Willie has managed to keep her siblings safe, even after the sickness took their mother. But then her good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the most merciless shake hunters in town, and Willie is left on the hook for his debt. With two young hunters as guides, Willie sets out across the desert to find her father. And the desert holds more dangers than just shakes.
This riveting debut novel blends True Grit with 28 Days Later for an unforgettable journey.
This sounds interesting. Will check it out.
I am actually up for some Zombie novels, which ones do you think are some of the best?
I finished Devils unto Dust yesterday and can confirm that it was superbly written all the way through, and I very much reiterate my reccomendation.
As for other zombie novels, it’s not really a genre I’m super into, hence the reluctance to get started on this one. That said, World War Z is a book that I hear is far better than the movie. Isn’t that always the case?
Yeah, Word War Z is already on my list. Added Devils unto Dust too. Thanks for the recommendation!
Trying to read Into Thin Air, but I am getting bored by the background stories.
I was thinking about reading it some day. What are the background stories about? And are there too many of them?
Stories about Everest itself, the first hikers, the first summit, a few background paragraphs about the hikers/acquaintances, what they do, what are their achievements, Krakauer’s magazine backstory and such, I left it on Chapter 5 few days ago and I think we are barely arriving to Base Camp.
It’s not bad per se, I mean it works as an introductory bit, but I was kind of expecting the book to start at Base Camp. If I am guessing right, the climb will start on Chapter 6 (which is a a quarter of the book according to KOreader), will still try to keep on reading it.
I recently finished the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Wonderful books. I read it in order of subseries which is a good way to get into the books, but it does make it a bitt jarring when going back to the first books, before Pterry really found his stride. Once I get around to a reread I think I’ll do it chronologically.
As a change of pace i continued with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Something of a whiplash change from Discworld and a it got me a bit too amped when reading right before bed. Still a very fun and interesting read.
Now onto SAS: Rogue Heroes, which i started earlier but have yet to finish.
I have read about a quarter of Discworld novels, wanted to read them all in released order, but couldn’t find many books. I plan to start the re-read again once I have found some of the remaining books.
The books are very much worth rereading. The layers of jokes and references are so deep that you likely won’t catch all on the first or second reads.
I can recommend The Annotated Pratchett File, https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/, for an in depth review of a lot of jokes and references. It explains a lot of things that are hard to catch if you haven’t grown up in England. Many things i thought Pterry had made up for the Disc is just references to real world things and events.
Wow, just took a quick peek at the that, and it’s really detailed. Bookmarked the page and downloaded a copy. Will check it after reading each book.
Sadly i’ve just discovered that from Going Postal and onwards there are no annotations. Seems the project never finished with all the books :/
I’m about half way through The Obelisk Gate which is the second book of the broken earth series by N.K. Jemisin. I’m really enjoying it.
I loved the series, but felt the books are quite dry. Not really a “fun” read.
I can see that, but I think the dramatic plot points and twists are a good payoff for the slower parts of the story. At least in the first book I got a little bored with all of the traveling, but when they finally get where they are going it picks up significantly.
I’m loving this thread. Lots of ideas for my next reads!
