The Sword Defiant by Gareth Hanrahan. It's enjoyable.
I really wish he'd describe scenes visually, but it's character driven and he does a good job with their internal lives.
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown.
I had a really hard time with Iron Gold. So much so that I couldn’t finish it. I keep meaning to go back to it and try again, but I haven’t yet.
Have you read the previous Red Rising series? And what didn't you like about Iron Gold?
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!
Oh yeah, I agree that overall the books are worth it. That's why I said I loved the series.
And yeah, some really neat book suggestions in this thread, and in many different genres.
A web book, the wandering inn by pirateaba
This looks interesting. Are you fully caught up? Or are somewhere in the middle?
Psychology of Time Travel. It's an interesting twist on the topic!
Bit late to the party, but I just started reading the Final Empire, Mistborn series #1. Only a few chapters in, but I’m enjoying it so far!
Currently: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo.
Probably will jump into another Discworld novel next because I have so many things on my tbr list that I always have trouble to choose something and I go the easy way: discworld.
Discworld is always the right answer!
Looked up Crooked Kingdom, and learned the word "dilogy", I always thought for two books it was duology, first time I ever seen the word dilogy.
re-reading the Malazan, Book of the Fallen. Currently on Toll the Hounds. I'm enjoying the re-read.
I'm about two thirds of the way through Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane. And I finished The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore today.
I don't think Lehane ever really misses. His plots aren't usually all that dense but the characters are deep and compelling. And the writing is way better than it seems like it should be. Every once in a while you I read a line and think, "Where did that come from, and how did it get here?" He's a really talented writer.
Moore is not that. But he's fun and entertaining. This book was not his best effort. But it was fine. If you like Moore, you'll like this one we'll enough.
📖 Les Furtifs by Alain Damasio
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📖 Mathematica by David Bessis
Les Furtifs looks interesting, from what I could glean. Is it available in English?
And Mathematica is just a Mathematics book, right?
I do not think that Les Furtifs is available in English yet...
As for Mathematica, yes it is about the Mathematic however at a personal development level. David Bessis tries to explain that people's brain is compatible with the mathenathic. Some people wrongly think that they are bad at this because nobody taught them how to do. For him abstraction is something that need to be trained. An example is that each one of us can easily imagine (to watch in our head) a perfect circle even if it does not exist in our reality. The author explains that to do Math is to learn to fail, to make mistakes, to correct our intuition.
I'm doing a reread of Human To Human by Rebecca Ore. It's the third book in the trilogy.
It's an old scifi series from the early ninties, but holds up well. I absolutely love how she designs her aliens.
The first book is Becoming Alien.
The Wheel of Time
I just finished Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Overall, I really enjoyed it.
The Cuckoo's Egg.........a nonfiction about catching a computer hacker in the 1980's. Great book if you are a techie.
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
By far liked it. His style is surely captivating.
Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
I really like how characters in this book think things through logically before acting.
Just about to finish Witch King by Martha Wells (dead tree edition), and just starting The Passage by Justin Cronin (audiobook edition)
Martha Wells is on my to-read list, specifically her "Books of the Raksura" series and "The Murderbot Series". Haven't had a chance to read anything yet though. How did you like Witch King?
Let us know how you like The Passage, it has been a long time since I read a nice Vampire story.
Finally pushed through The Sound and the Fury. Definitely lived up to it's reputation for being difficult and inscrutable. Probably could have just stuck with the spark notes on this one, frankly.
I picked up Ovid's Metamorphoses on a whim and I'm finding it surprisingly fun and approachable. I've always had a healthy appreciation for western mythos, so this is a fun little dip back into that world for me, and I am also enjoying going back and reading some academic commentary once I finish a section. Makes me feel like I'm back in college in a good way.
I also started The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and I'm really enjoying her prose so far. I am a little surprised, frankly, with how much I'm enjoying this one and how hard it is to put the book down. Maybe because I tend to select books I don't expect to like, but rather which I believe will be beneficial to read (which provides it's own form of enjoyment for me, rest assured).
Also trying to maintain momentum on my second read through of Infinite Jest. One of my favorites, even (especially?) the second time through.
Last year I read mostly nonfiction so I guess this year I've swung in the other direction as I've read almost exclusively fiction so far.
Nice list! I looked up The Sound and the Fury, from wikipedia:
It is nearly unanimously considered a masterpiece by literary critics and scholars, but its unconventional narrative style frequently alienates new readers. Although the vocabulary is generally basic, the stream-of-consciousness technique, which attempts to transcribe the thoughts of the narrators directly, with frequent switches in time and setting and with loose sentence structure and grammar, has made it a quintessentially difficult modernist work.
Interesting. Will add it to the list of "literary classics, some day" to-read list.
Which translation are you reading for Metamorphoses? And any interesting academic commentary you can link to? Recently, I have been thinking of reading some of the older, historical work, starting with the most obvious choice, Homer's Odyssey. Haven't started it yet though, so many things to read, so little time.
And respect for reading books that are beneficial to you!
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?
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