What book(s) are you currently reading? 24 August
What book(s) are you currently reading? 24 August
A day late, but better late than never!
I finished Grave Peril, third book of Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. The series has start picking up. This book is much higher quality than the first two.
Currently, I am reading two books.
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The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll. I have been using bullet journal for nearly a decade, but never got around to reading the book, so finally got it. While there's nothing new in the method, the "why" are interesting, and should help me be more productive.
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Man, what a book. I think this is one of the best book I have read recently. I am more than half-way, and loving every moment of it.
What about all of you? What have you been reading?
Book 3 of Mistborn, The Hero of Ages. Really loving it so far, book 2 took it's sweet time though.
That's good to know, book 2 was a slump compared to the first but still enjoyable
Yeah, "middle" can often be a slog in series. You have to keep everything exciting without resolving anything.
I think I should start Mistborn re-read next. Want to re-read before starting Mistbort Era Two (Wax & Wayne novels).
One of my favorite endings to any series ever!
Re-reading the entire Cradle series by Will Wight. Up to book 11 out of 12 so almost there!
The Dresden Files is tied with The Dark Tower series as my favorite series. It gets progressively better as it goes along. I hope you'll love it. It's amazing.
Sadly I'm only reading a textbook for class right now. But I'm about to start A Stitch In Time, the Garak/star trek novel.
Yeah, Dresden Files is really good. I have read first 5 books a long time ago. Now plan to read the whole series, just hope the series is finished by the time I reach the ending.
I have never read any Star Trek novel, A Stitch in Time looks interesting. Let us know how you like it, when you get around to it.
And don't worry. Textbooks are very important, you can always read other books later on.
Interesting, I love The Dark Tower so maybe I should check this out, I haven't heard of it before now.
Also does your name have anything to do with Lost? xD
I Know This Much Is True. 900 pages. I'm halfway through the book inside the book
This doesn't look like light reading. How are you liking it?
A Day Of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon.
This is my second book I've read by her and the writing is just so freaking wonderful to trot through. She has such a way with words that really makes it comfortable to sit through a massive story. It's also great to see the beginnings of The story that comes after this one (Priory of the orange tree)
Ah, I have heard of Priory of the Orange Tree, but doesn't that come before "A Day of Fallen Night"?
The Silmarillion. It's a slog.
I'm listening to the Andy Serkis audiobook right now. I agree the first bit is a slog but really enjoying it once Feanor and events get going.
I have tried reading it twice. First time, I started without knowing anything about it, and thought it might be something like Lord of Things or The Hobbit. Gave up very quickly.
Second time I read it knowing what it was, but I got so confused by the names. Fahir Faihr, Faher, I dunno, so many similar names. Gave up, confused. I liked it other than that though. So, have been thinking about reading it while making a big family / relation tree alongside it, so that I can figure out who is who and how they are related to each other.
The Bible. It does put some things in perspective. And I have questions.
Hope you find what you are looking for! Good luck!
Currently on Book 5 of the Wheel of Time! Reading the whole thing because only the first 9 were out when I started the series over 20 years ago
Wow. I love Wheel of Time. How are you liking it, when reading again after 20 years?
Oh, it's just fantastic. The series doesn't need to be so long, but the pay-offs from its length have already been amazing. References to people and places in book one that suddenly come to fruition by book four or five are so satisfying, and watching the characters develop just keeps you hooked.
The Wife and I are both reading it at the same time on our e-readers, so trading notes while we go brings an extra level of enjoyment.
I recently finally started reading the Discworld novels for the first time. I just finished #4 (Mort). I'm not sure every part of each of the four books has been quite as consistently funny as Good Omens (my introduction to Terry Pratchett), but overall they've been great!
Yeah, Discworld has been great. I haven't read Good Omens yet though, but if its even more funny than Mort that's a high praise.
I'm about halfway through Death's End in the Three Body Problem trilogy. The whole series has been fantastic so far. I'm a slow reader and the first book took me only a couple days to get through. The second book fantastic as well. The third book is kind of falling off a cliff for me.
The first two books have excellent main characters that we follow along as the story progresses. The 3rd book's mc is the weakest of the 3. Where the first two had these grand contributions to society and how to handle the aliens, Cheng is more on the lines of being a puppet. She contributed to society but in this book there are bigger, more important characters that would have been more intersting to follow.
It's a good book. I am enjoying it. But I'm 300 pages in and still waiting for that moment to take me back up the cliff. The nice thing is I think I stopped at a point where that's about to happen. So I hope it turns around and elevates itself in the next few readings.
Interesting.
Why is everyone reading Three Body Problem these days? It was translated in 2014, but suddenly everyone seems to be reading it.
I just finished Spine of the Dragon by Kevin Anderson. I have very mixed feelings about it. I really liked the worldbuilding, the political conflict, the characters, and the balance between the local viewpoints of individual characters and the grand world-shaking plot.
But.
I really hated the way it was written. All the chapters were too short. I almost felt like I was reading an outline of the story instead of the story.
I'm invested enough to want to read the next one, but I'm not sure I can bear to read more in this style :(
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Interesting. Just read about him. Going to check out his work.
How are you liking The Undaunted?
I quite like it. It's fascinating to see how his experiences as a trans man shaped his writing. Especially so long ago
Going through it in the chronological order of events, I'm currently reading Asimov's The Currents of Space.
Got finished with The Stars, Like Dust the day before, and I must say not many things I've read had me cringing as hard as that book's very ending. That one last paragraph alone took the whole thing down a couple notch for me.
I have never read The Currents of Space. How are you liking the series? (Not counting that the last paragraph that you find so cringey).
Alastair Reynolds' Revenger trilogy. I guess I'll finish Bone Silence this evening and Shadow Captain this weekend.
I have never read anything by Alastair Reynolds. How are you liking the series?
It differs greatly from his "Revelation space" books, but so far it has been a real page turner. Almost sail-punk with low tech space travel instead of his normal nanomachine shenanigans. And setting it to a very far future amidst whats left of once highly developed string of civilizations has a lot of potential for future world building.