Started Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch. Book 3 of Rivers of London series.
Just started it, not much to say about it yet.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. (Ebook) I keep trying to find books in the Fantasy genre that I enjoy reading. hopefully this will be the one that gets me there.
Polostan by Neal Stephenson. Bought this one blind because I like every one of the author’s books that I’ve read. They’re usually filled with math and or philosophy and he does a great job of explaining things in the context of the book, so I’m excited to get into this one and feel dumb for a while until I pick up whatever he’s putting down.
I just finished (today) both Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa.
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Fantasy with a Native American mythos. It started great, then became a soap opera.
Currently reading Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski the last main book in the Witcher series
Listening to The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne the last book in the Bloodsworn Saga. Would highly recommend the series it is so good and compelling.
Recently started reading The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee. Trying to read authors from all around the world and this is my India book. Wild family saga that gets into history, traditional vs modern culture and religion, class politics. Really enjoying it so far.
Also listening to the audiobook of The Scar by China Miéville.
Still working my way through Contemporary Theological Approaches to Sexuality, ed. Lisa Isherwood and Dirk von Der Horst. I read a chapter yesterday about sex work, and there was a ton of discussion about Marxist economics. Today’s chapter was about rape culture and virgin martyr sainthood in the Catholic church.
I just finished all 18 books in The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell, and I am now empty inside. I haven’t found anything else yet that has grabbed me.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. A very imaginative book. Which could be considered a backhanded compliment. I dont think he always gets it right but on the balance it’s an engaging read. Best of all its a trilogy so more books to go. Hopefully the quality keeps up.
Traumnovelle. I randomly got reminded of the film “Eyes Wide Shut” and discovered it’s actually based on an Austrian story from the 1920s. I’ve been wanting to read more in German, so I figured why not?
It’s decently entertaining, and a nice little look into cultural assumptions in the 1920s, but I have to admit I’m excited to finish it and move on :).
I am still listening to this. It is getting more and more insane.
I did six years in the Army and the number of loosers and low lifes I dealt in the Army just blew my mind. I always thought that SF was a different breed, but no.
It is wild how the military’s “elite force” are just more of the same.
From the book, There was this one Delta guy who ran a biker club called Coast to Coast. The Delta guy went by Chris Valley.
His club did a fund raiser for five dead green berets. They raised 450,000, 250,000 he just kept and the rest went to help other SF guys “treatments”, gyro therapy, cryotherapy.
It was all just a scheme to take people’s money. How the hell and active duty delta gu yay did something that public is beyond incredible.
It really is a wild listen/read.
The chapters I am on now focus on an ex NC cop who was an expert at catching drug mules has became one of them after he was kicked off the Police Force.
Still Reading Infinite Jest. Nearing the end finally
Worth the slog?
I’m 3/4 of the way through A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher, and then I’ll technically have a whole bingo card filled, though I have plans to maybe read a couple more books to check off more hard modes.
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Finished Thirteenth by C.M. Rosens (eldritchy horror family drama) | bingo: number HM, different continent, jerk HM
The eldritch horror family from the first book anticipates the coming of age of a teenage relative, whose status as a thirteenth child means she’s destined to gorily prune the family tree.
I didn’t tear through this one nearly as quickly as I did the first book (although it was better edited). One of the new PoVs was kind of unlikable (perhaps intentionally? I feel like I ought to have cared, but didn’t), and the MC from the first book was heavily sidelined, which was disappointing. It was still enjoyable, and I do still plan to read the next book eventually, I’m just less excited about it now.
“The Blade Itself” by Joe Abercrombie. It may have been a little overhyped, but I’m enjoying it so far.
I just started it today!
I read the series years ago, and recently learned that it’s not just a trilogy! I just re-read the first three, read the second three for the first time, and am planning to start the next three (starting with A Little Hatred) in the next month.
I find the world-building in the first trilogy quite good, and I like having a bit of a darker story.
The Eye of the World, Wheel of Time series book 1
The first couple of those are great.
To me it is the best fantasy saga i ve read. Nice characters, nice actions, nice thoughts. Have fun !
I’m working my way through the Great Hunt still. Had to hit the brakes for some IRL stuff taking up most of my headspace, but will hopefully continue on here soon.
Is it part of the wheel of Time?
Great Hunt is the 2nd book in the Wheel of Time.
Yup, Book 2.
It’s a shame because I like the plot significantly more than the first so far.
I found that it gets better after each Book. Have fun, it holds a special place in my monde.
I’m nearing the end of The Hunt For Red October. I remembered I liked reading Clancy’s Politika when I was a teenager and the recent show of Jack Ryan made me curious about the books.
I found out that there are some major movie titles based on Jack Ryan books, like October but also The Sum of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger and Rainbow Six, which is of course a video game series.
It’s pretty fun to read the books and imagine Jack Ryan played by John Krasinski.
English is not my native language but if at all possible I try to read these kinds of books in the original language. Clancy is a good writer, although sometimes punctuation could provide a bit more readability.
In any event, it’s a book that finds it drive very late, but somehow keeps you engaged through some really boring chapters because you continuously feel something big is going to happen soon. When it does find its drive, it’s a bit anticlimactic. Over the entity of the book (or at least where I’m currently at) especially dialog and character description made it a very lively book. Clancy is also pretty detailed when it comes to army, navy and air force stuffs. It just feels well-researched, even though it’s fully possible it’s all incorrect.
