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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A 1970's band and their audio engineers, trapped in a neverending philosophical prison where they slowly lose their minds.

https://indiepubs.com/products/stereophonic

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https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/piranesi-9781635575637/

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Cloud Based Medical Intervention and Pharmacology

[–] ICCrawler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

An autistic wallflower becomes the latest in a line of clones for the god-emperor. Long philosophical rambling ensues as the wallflower continues to just let bad shit happen to him without ever just walking away or speaking up.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Aslan flying an X wing

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can't read unless it's completely quiet so I seldom even attempt to read a book. Mostly, I'll read RSS and other short articles.

The last book was "Extreme Privacy: Mobile Devices" by Michael Bazzell which I read in 2024.

Before that was "The Passive Solar Energy Book" by Edward Mazria. Maybe 20 years ago.

Combined = a very private, off-grid, homestead.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lovecraftian cosmic horror and newborn baby book.

Uhhhhh, I don't want those to join.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Too late! Poonami incoming! 😫

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Building a non anxious life by Dr. John Delony. The former being fiction and the latter being non fiction. To nobody's surprise, they do not play well together.

[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Everything All at Once by Bill Nye

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The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

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Bill Nye must solve a series of mysterious crimes including theft, witch hunts, and murder on a 17th century East Indiaman ship. I'd read the heck out of that.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

A thicker book, I just read part one and two of one story ("Human Phoenix" and "Human Man").

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

1984 and Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass

I guess woke and mad?

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Last 2 books are Journey to the west and Seveneves

Either Wukong is going to space or the iss is taking a trip to the west

[–] kionay@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson and The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Actually... actually I don't think you'd have too hard of a time combining those two. A wildman from ancient China discovers outer space and aliens?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

Very citrusy Sichuanese food.

[–] SolarBoy@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

People remember the last two books they read from the top of their head?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Many Americans read so little that they probably don't.

To many it would probably be Curious George or the alphabet.

[–] SolarBoy@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Well, that's kinda sad. I read quite a bit though. some months I'll read 5 books, other months only 1. I suppose that's already quite a lot.

I think the problem with not remembering might be something personal, my memory tends te be very selective.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I read a chapter a day

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If they were recent, yeah.

[–] SolarBoy@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

For some reason I'm unable to do so, but I could have a look at what books I recently read and have a okish recollection of their contents. Maybe my memory is just bad.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

1940s lesbian mystic sells her soul for love and helps Arthur become king while searching for Merlin?

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Larian Studios presents their latest CRPG masterpiece

The map of your face?🤔

Its been a few months since i read anything lmao but i read the map of salt and stars and the beauty of your face last, tried to read the other zeyn joukhadars book abt being arab and a queer but it was just too much for me😅 i am not smart enough to read that lol

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The last two books i've read are my Aerodynamics book for an exam. And Harry Potter and the philosopher stone to help my sibling make a review for English class.

Sooo... Potter will see how his magic fares against a rocket.

A Connecticut Linux Administrator In King Arthur's Court.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive

(the last books I read was the whole Sprawl trilogy)

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Something Wicked Silencing The Lambs

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Do textbooks count? Last two books I touched were Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design and the ASQ Lean 6 Sigma Yellow Belt Handbook. I guess I end up with another reference book about designing parts with process optimization in mind? Actually, now that I say that, that's pretty much just a DFMA (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly) book.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well, if we're allowing the textbook that I'm going through chapter by chapter weekly in college, Legoshi of Beastars fame would probably be learning HTML and CSS so he can properly design a website. Don't know why, but that sounds kinda funny.

Textbooks not included, it'd be a weird mix of Bakuman ( a story about a couple of kids ( starting off near the end of 8th grade ) who wanna become mangaka ) and the world of Beastars, where anthros roam the streets. I wanna say at some point it was confirmed that humans do exist in the Beastars universe but are basically super rare or something like that, so it's not completely out of the question.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The Hundred Acre Wood somehow devolves into a patriarchal dystopia

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Archeological evidence explaining Tezcatlipoca and two multi million year old robot space skeletons acting like bickering old men.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Uhhh the history of how Labour introduced neoliberal anarchy to Australia and then made it queer???

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's an actual book no? A German political satire if I remember correctly.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

WWII + Vietnam War = Super mega war??

[–] mlfh@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

"Jo March becomes god, Massachusetts is consumed by horrors beyond human comprehension, and everyone dies"

Bakker's Second Apocalypse to Little Women was a pretty jarring transition already..

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Honestly they work well together. I get a story about American natives being stolen from a life of relative freedom to serve as chattel slaves for colonizers. Which of course, is what actually happened. My books are "Twelve Years a Slave" and "The Conquest of New Spain"

[–] pixelmeow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Tress of the Emerald Sea goes to RandLand to help the Dragon Reborn save the world?

[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh crap...

Dungeon Crawler Carl "The Inevitable Ruin" Book 7

"Fellowship of the Ring" Lord of the Rings Book 1

Frodo and Donut are fighting their way through Moria to throw Cascadia into Mt Doom... Oh and Frodo is wearing boxers with a heart print.

God Dammit Donut!

[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Emotional intelligence is now an SCP cognito hazard?

Emotional Intelligence and There is No Antimemetics Division

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 3 days ago

Earth's Children book 2, and Earth's Children book 3. A marriage of nightmares

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Whatever unholy abomination that would be created if you were to combine C with Tcl.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A reminder of how little I read books?

The last two books I think Ive read that I can think of are The Martian (partially) and Max, the Bad-Talking Parrot (kids book read to my niece).

So, the story of Braaaaak! Watney being abducted from home, ending up on Mars, and getting back to Earth by using science to survive and cleverly communicating his status and the presence of the burglar to Earth.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Star Thrones: A Feast for the Last Command

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 3 days ago

The Armored Saint and Hellbound Hearts...

It's going to be bloody.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wyrd Pyramid Sisters, by Terry Pratchett

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Children of Ruin Memory