I'm reading this on my lunch breaks:
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I'm usually enjoying Sanderson's long novels more, but his short form fiction is also pretty damn good.
None😅
(I really should read more though)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. I am halfway and understood nothing. 5/5, would recommend.
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It's "a book featuring an unlikely friendship" for the March slot of my book challenge:
Roadside Picnic tells a story about an alien visit to earth, however they all already left and only some of their stuff remained in incredibly dangerous Zones. At the beginning of the book we follow Red, a Stalker, they wander into the Zone and try to escape with their lives, if they are lucky they will bring some alien artifacts and sell them to the highest bidder.
The book is much more firm that the Zone was created by aliens, and brings you to question that, if there where aliens, would they try and talk to us or even see us as intelligent?
The story was heavily adapted for the games (called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.), but I also enjoy them very much.
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Been enjoying most of these stories. A few fall flat though.
i've been a little disappointed in this third book in the trilogy. it's extremely horny for some reason
Akumetsu. Batman, if he wanted to destroy the institutional corruption of Gotham.
Why yes I am crashing out over the blasé, abject cruelty of normal average humans. How could you tell?
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Working through the Three Body Problem trilogy. Absolutely loving it so far and open to recommendations if you've got em.
Planning to read Ball Lightning next and potentially pivot to Mistborn next.
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Nation by Terry Pratchett
Do not read in public, at work, during lunch breaks.... but, a very vivid graphic novel about society's voyeristic views of sex and violence.
Accidentally read book #4 first and am now going back to read the first one.
I read this forever ago and grabbed the sequel, this book is full of spiders. Didn’t know he kept going with it. I’ll have to grab the others.
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Love this one! His Zoe Ashe series is really good too. He writes under Jason Pargin now if anyone searches for his newer stuff
A book about the history of trolls from the nordic mythology to the internet by a professor for ancient German and Nordic studies.
I’m enjoying it. First book I’ve read by this author, but he also wrote True Grit. It’s about a guy who founds a group like the Masons, devoted to the ostensible lost wisdom of Atlantis.