There’s a thread about how people find new books, and one of my favorite ways to find things to read was browsing comments from the weekly ‘What are you reading’ threads in r/truelit and r/books. So what is Lemmy reading?
I’m finishing The Passenger, and about to jump into John Williams’ Stoner. Excited to see what is next!
The Expanse, the whole book trilogy!
It’s a bit more than a trilogy lol. It’s a nonology!
Amazing series, be sure to check out the novellas as well! There are some guides online that will tell you where they happen chronologicaly
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You’re a few ahead of me on the re-read; Lords and Ladies is my next one. I’m taking my time though, I started in 2019.
GNU Terry Pratchett.
That’s great! Whenever I’m feeling down, his books are mental comfort food that help me re-center. GNU sir Pterry!
I just finished up reading The Return of the King for the first time since childhood. I like it a lot more than I remember. I think two things stuck out at me most: how dense it was compared to modern fantasy and how great the hobbits were portrayed. Fantasy tends to portray great heroes that came from nothing (ex. the chosen one/orphan trope). However, the hobbits were solely because they were common that they were able to do things the great heroes of their age couldn’t.
Since then I’ve started reading Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. I kept hearing Pynchon’s name come up for about a month at random and figured I should pick up one of his books. He has a very frenetic style that can be a bit difficult to parse but I’m loving his sense of humor.
Just finished Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Absolutely amazing uplift-scifi, but you better stay away from it if you have arachnophobia
I really enjoyed that series, particularly the first book. I’m nearly finished with The Final Architecture series as well and while I haven’t seen as much praise for it I’ve been really enjoying it.
Really enjoyed this series!
Good novel but I have to say I was a bit annoyed with it by the end. Not quite sure why but for me it slightly overstayed its welcome.
Yeah! Its amazing. I love the ending!
Though I’m not much of a reader anymore, my wife has been absolutely obsessed with Sarah J Maas’ Throne of Glass series. I enjoy listening to her talk about it and sum up the stories, wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up on Netflix soon.
Any recommendations for audiobooks to listen to at work? I’m big on science/science fiction and philosophy, anything that challenges my way of thinking really.
All hail SJM 😂 I love the theory (quickly becoming canon) that TOG, ACOTAR and CC are connected. I’m so excited for the future of the universe.
Recommend Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - changed my outlook on life. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor e. Frankl had me ugly crying - and again, changed my outlook.
Just finished Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (loved it, just discovered the “new weird” genre and it’s totally my vibe). Now started reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, the structure of the book and the setting seems cool and intriguing.
If you liked Anniliation and the rest of the trilogy (well worth it!), Check out Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfeild.
I also just finished it
Man, I read the book maybe two years ago and it just… sort of left no impression. The world was neat and weird but fuck it was weird. Maybe I need to consider a re-read at some point.
Both great reads. I’d also recommend the second and third books following Annihilation, just know they are quite different. Good, but different.
Terry Pratchett’s Jingo, currently. After that, more discworld.
I really enjoyed the Expanse books, so just started one of the Author’s other series, the Long Price Quartet
H.P. Lovecraft - Tales of Horror
I’ve been blown away by all of this, up until the one I’m currently powering my way through (Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath). It isn’t terrible, though. It just feels very out of place after the overall tone and flow of all his other stories within the volume.
I love his dream cycle stuff, it’s so vivid, but it’s definitely jarring read alongside the horror.
It certainly has its moments, when his description of something really stirs something inside of you and lights up your imagination. I loved this one:
“There is a great canal which goes under the whole city in a tunnel with granite gates and leads to the inland lake of Yath, on whose farther shore are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not remembered. As the ship drew into the harbour at evening the twin beacons Thon and Thal gleamed a welcome, and in all the million windows of Baharna’s terraces mellow lights peeped out quietly and gradually as the stars peep out overhead in the dusk, till that steep and climbing seaport became a glittering constellation hung between the stars of heaven and the reflections of those stars in the still harbour.”
That one really put me there. But then you get to the space cats and it kind of brings you out again.
Since November I’m slowly working through the The Witcher books. Just finished the 5th book recently and currently looking for a book I can read before I continue with the 6th book. Normally I read mostly in german but I’m thinking about picking a english book as my next book.
I need to give those a re-read soon (but i have such a list already lol). For your next book in english, I’d like to suggest The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. It’s a fantasy novel (yes, King doesn’t just write horror, crazy i know) that draws from European fairy tales. I enjoyed it immensely, and according to my e-reader history, it was actually my very next book after The Witcher series!
Thank you for the suggestion! I was actually thinking about picking something from Stephen King since I never really read any of his books but they seem interesting. The Eyes of the Dragon is definitely on top of my list now!
I’ve been getting into beekeeping so I’m soaking up as much info as I can. Just finished up Honey Bee Democracy by Tom Seeley. Fantastically interesting book regarding honey bee swarm preferences and decision making. Next up is an English translation of Beekeeping for All by Émile Warré, mostly because I want to read his thoughts on his hive style and management practices.
Currently I’m finishing the fifth book of the Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan. Next will be the sixth book of the Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan :)
@Kebab
Heck yeah! Books 5 and 6 are among the fan favorites.
nobody reads this junk here so i’ll just shout at a cloud
a deadly education, naomi novik - this should finally unjam the block i’ve had on fiction; i don’t do well with fiction when the world is burning. i’ve picked this up and set it down many times, but the novelty is that normally, a fiction book that stops after the halfway point to do world-building is one that will end up propping open a door. but in this one the late add increased my interest.
keep my heart in san francisco, amelia diane coombs - an adorable fluffy book set nearby that ended up on the to-be-finished pile during some political firestorm or other.
guide du routard, catalogne - americans don’t want to see what i want to see and american guidebooks know it. i often drag in other people’s guidebooks when i think about going other people’s places.
I read this junk!
I’d highly recommend We are legion we are Bob and off to be the wizard to any fellow tech nerds
We are legion we are bob is about a guy whose brain is uploaded as an AI into a Von Neumann probe and sent into space to explore the universe.
Off to be the wizard is about a guy who finds out the world is some kind of simulation, and there’s essentially one big file detailing absolutely everything that can be edited, uses it to go back in time and live as a wizard and make spells with his programming skills
Both of them have plenty of nerdy references and humour, would highly recommend
Adding to my tbr - not usually into that kind of genre but that piqued my interest! Thanks for the rec!
Both of them are fairly sci-fi/tech themed. Not for everyone but for those who are into that stuff it’s great
Yeah, that’s the one. Fantastic book, listened to it with my family on long car trips, good memories
I made the mistake of picking up these books on a busy work week. Needless to say, I did not get much sleep between working and finishing four books in as many days.
Haha I’m sorry my friend but I’m glad you enjoyed them, those books are something special
Bumped, a feminist dystopia where only teenagers can reproduce. The book is very confusing to get into (it’s narrated by two teenagers in 2036, so you need to learn alll the slangs) and the writing style rubbed me off as amateurish, but it’s been very entertaining nevertheless. It gets even funny when you get what’s going on because teens be teens.
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
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