Finished The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King.
It was a nice book. Kind of YA, but fun to read. Pretty much a typical story of good vs bad, where good characters are super good and bad characters are super bad, with very few gray in between. Worth a read if you want a standalone fantasy novel that’s quick to read.
Read The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. My first Scalzi novel and I loved it. A very light and easy to read sci-fi, with Kaiju in them. Going to get other Scalzi novels, may start with Old Man’s War.
Finally got my order my Dresden Files comics / graphic novels. So read the first omnibus, which has the original Welcome to the Jungle and graphic adaptation of first two Dresden Files novels, Storm Front and Fool Mon.
Second omnibus has all original graphic novels novels though, but will get to them later.
Just started Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I have read it before, but it has been quite a while, so re-reading it before starting on the sequel series.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
Covers One Less (Hard Mode), Older than You, Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie, and It takes two Bingo squares
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Pet Sematary and it’s so creepy.
“Being Henry” by Henry Winkler. Concise and well written about his life growing up and his journey into showbiz. And hitting it big with “Happy Days”
This just reminded me I have yet to watch Happy Days. Have been meaning to watch it for ages. Maybe once I finish my current show.
Ayyyy 👍👍
Mistborn is the book that got me into reading! It’s one of my favourite books of all time due to how it changed me haha.
As for my little update. I put Morning Star on pause as I feel a bit burned out with the Red Rising series. I’m at the point where nothing really surprises me anymore and I feel that I’m not as invested as I was with the other Red Rising books.
Instead I’ve jumped back over to doing a Way of Kings re-read. The first time I listened to the audiobook so I’m eager to read it this timearound.
Is it better than the Stormlight Archive? I’m currently off and on trying to slog my way through The Way of Kings, but I’ve made it nearly a quarter of the way through and can’t bring myself to care all that much about the characters or story.
It’s to the point where I’ve put the book on hold twice to read other books that I found more interesting. I wish I liked it more, because everyone says it’s one of the greatest fantasy series ever written, but it’s just not pushing my buttons the right way, I guess.
I assume you mean Stormlight vs Mistborn? If I was recommending between those two, I would go definitely go Mistborn first. Not because I think it’s better, but Stormlight is a little difficult to get going with and plans to span 10 books. Given that not a lot happens in the first part due to the world building happening across multiple characters individually, it takes a while for it to feel like it’s moving somewhere. Mistborn on the other hand paces itself a lot quicker and the foreshadowing throughout is executed wonderfully.
Thanks, I think I’ll give that a look then. Mind you, I fully intend on continuing the slog through Stormlight, just because everyone assures me it’s worth it, but I listen to these books as audiobooks since I don’t get a lot of time that I’m sitting and can read from an actual book, so if an author uses a whole first volume as world building, that’s about forty hours I have to get through before things start picking up.
Oooo I do love Mistborn!
This week for me has been pretty boring to report in this thread but I have exclusively read Deathlands books.
I’ve read 5 this week and I’m half way through the sixth which is the 32nd book, still enjoying it and just wanted to keep going with the story this week so did!
Book related I’m probably going to start editing the second Underwood and Flinch novel tonight down into a nice audio book experience.
5 books in a week! Nice! How many books are remaining?
Good luck with editing!
I believe number 153 is due to be released next month so a shit ton left and I can’t wait! XD
Wow. I guess it’s a good thing I couldn’t get these, otherwise I would still be reading them in a decade 😀
Just started Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway after several recommendations. Haven’t finished ch1 yet but it’s entertaining so far.
I just finished this book over the weekend. It was fun.
bobiverse series by dennis e taylor. fantastic.
How do you like it? I started the first book a couple weeks ago but just couldn’t finish. Sci fi isn’t really my thing, although i did like John Scalzi’s books.
Scalzi’s Kaiju Presevation Society is great, his Starter Villain is definitely in the same vein of light and easy and fun.
I made it most of the way through Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. It holds up pretty well for being almost 100 years old.
I still plan to read Dungeon Crawler Carl next.
I am excited for you, I was hooked on DCC and left feeling so lost when I finished. The audiobooks are worth a listen, it’s more of an auditory cinematic than just an audiobook. I got very used to that being the norm that I’m now struggling with regular narration, same actor doing all voices, no sound effects etc.
I thankfully found the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson shortly after from another post on Lemmy. Not quite as cinematic but loving R.C. Bray’s performance and the series as a whole.
Finished 6th Dungeon Crawler Carl (haven’t started 7th yet) then started Expeditionary Force. Currently on book 16, with 17 having dropped recently, then I’ll cycle back for DCC 7 Faction Wars. Then I’ll be lost again haha.
Yeah, I took a look at his whole bibliography then went with KPS to check out how he writes, will probably be getting most of his books.
Lud-In-The-Mist looks interesting. Is it linked with any of her previous book?
Redshirts was where I started with Scalzi, one day I’ll get to Old Man’s War.
Lud is a one-off. I added it for bingo because a bunch of authors have listed it as a super formative book. I like her style, but it is a bit more dense than I expected going into it initially.
How to stop worrying and start living by dale Carnegie.
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian. This series should keep me busy for a LONG time.
The Singing Sword, by Jack Whyte. It’s the second book in a historical fiction take on the Arthurian legend.
Calico by Lee Goldberg
My reading list right now is:
- Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa
- Legends and Lattes, by Travis Baldree
- Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
Making very slow progress through each of them, but I’m still just trying to get into the reading habit again.
Hey, I was the guy who recommended Kaiju Preservation Society to you a few months ago! I’m glad you liked it. I personally liked Starter Villain over Old Man’s War but you do you
I’m currently reading Artifact Space by Miles Cameron. I’m 70% in and I like that every time it has a chance to go grim and edgelord the characters all go “ew, why would we do that? We’re civilized.” It does feel poorly edited, with a few misspellings, some odd continuity, and it’s a little hard to follow between certain paragraphs. Overall it’s a good space opera type with a character who learns to let down walls instead of having to put them up
Just finished: We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen. Man, this book sucked. The main character is unlikable, the story is nonsensical, and it quite clearly is just cobbling together ideas from better Sci-fi series. They had to spend a few pages towards the end of the book explaining the plot to the main character which is always a sign you didn’t tell a good story. Final takeaway being lost and confused is not the same thing as being scared of the unknown
Oh, cool. Thanks for the recommendation! I am going to get his standalone books too, Starter Villain and Red Shirts specifically, but also want to checkout his biggest series.
Artifact Space sounds interesting. Would wait for your 100% finished update.
Would love to get more recommendations 😀
1964 Hugo Winner - Way Station
A man born in 1840, back in the Wisconsin boonies, is chosen to run an intragalactic stopover station for aliens moving about the Orion Arm. Earth is a new expansion, but we’re not invited to the alien fraternity. Yet. Oh, the guy only ages when he leaves his house (aliens converted it to receive travelers) so some are taking notice that the guy is 120+ years old and looks 30.
Has a more modern feel to it than most golden age sci-fi. Little slow up front, but it’s a short book.
Trying to read too many books concurrently (at least one on each device):
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
- Beyond Narrative Coherence by Matti Hyvärinen et al.
- Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity by Angela Friederici
- Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Parr, Pezzulo, and Friston
- Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome Bruner
- Dreams In Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture by Patricia Cox Miller
- Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad
- Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach by Gunnar Schumann
- Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections by Tobias Uller and Kevin Lala
