"What are you reading?" thread.

Simfers

Simfers

I got out of my reading funk, spurred by my wife who gave herself a 50 pages a day objective. Decided to join her, so I finished Cibola Burn, the fourth book of The Expanse. It re-ignited my interest enough that I immediately ordered the five books I didn't have yet.

I then finished Mossflower, the second (publishing order, not chronological) Redwall book. Quite the different experience, LOL.

Now I've started Lovecraft Country. Only 25 pages in, so too early to form an opinion, but I liked the two episodes I saw of the series (I want to finish it, but it's a hard, uncomfortable watch).

After, I'll have its sequel, Destroyer of Worlds, along with Alastair Reynolds' Revenger trilogy (those were my Christmas parents from my parents). The rest of The Expanse should arrive next week.

And looking at my bookshelf, looks like I'm missing a book or two in the Revelation Space series, so I might get on that too.

Busy times ahead!
 
Vrii

Vrii

I'm in the middle of an Expanse re-read myself and I'm surprised by how much they're still grabbing me. "One more chapter" is consistently turning into three or five more chapters.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Vrii said:
I'm in the middle of an Expanse re-read myself and I'm surprised by how much they're still grabbing me. "One more chapter" is consistently turning into three or five more chapters.
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I have been through the first 3 twice at least. Read once and audiobook second. It's such a great series.

I am reading 11/22/63, again. And the Daily Stoic.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Currently going through Dracula unabridged, loving the parts where Dracula is actually in it...but dear GOD is there so much build up, a literary endurance test old novels were.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

The original in French at least has real grammatical and vocabulary craftsmanship. It's literary architecture.
I've read it in Dutch and English too, and neither translation was anywhere near as good.

Personally, I think Moby Dick was more of a test of patience and perseverance.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Have you tried The Count of Monte Cristo? I have only heard that it's the greatest evar. damn is it dense AF. I have tried multiple times and formats.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

AND-finished Dracula, damn fine book albeit...REALLY dated in a lot of ways. I also found the ending interesting in how different it was to most Vampire Lord showdowns, in how it wasn't so much an epic battle, but more an epic strategically made ambush.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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EDIT: I recommend "The Amplifier Protocol" by Meghan Ciana Doidge. Set in the same universe as other books I've recommended in the past, this one is the trope of genetically modified super-soldier who escapes from the evil shadow organization that created her. Cliche start, but I find Emma to be a well developed character, and her demon-dog Paisley is an adorable/terrifying little scamp. I absolutely devoured the 8 books in the series.
 
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Dirona

Dirona

Just finished The Tower of Fools by Andrzej Sapkowski.

I've been reading this book since December. It's not that long at 550 pages, but I found I could often only read a chapter or two at a time because of just how dense this thing was. I enjoyed it, but I definitely thought I wasn't gonna make it on a few occasions. I've also previously read the first book in this author's more famous series (The Last Wish, first in The Witcher series), and raced through it. Vastly different pacing and genre/feel between these two books. This was very historical fiction with light fantasy elements, The Last Wish was action-adventure fantasy. Both good, but I'm not sure I'd widely recommend this one. It was interesting, the setting was both familiar and foreign, the characters were well done (and if you hated one, just wait a few pages, you'll meet someone new), but it was a slog for much of it's duration. The last 100 pages-or-so were great though!
 
Dave

Dave

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Man I’m trying to like Dungeon Crawler Carl. I really am. But while the premise is amusing they should have named the cat “Rowl - a complete ripoff of Butcher’s annoying character from the Cinder Spires Series”. So fucking annoying as a character. Meant to be comedic but the beats, attitude, and prose are almost identical to Butcher’s Rowl character. The blatant unoriginality of it just leaves me cold. I want the character to just die but I know that’ll never happen. Making it through the first book is going to be like getting a second job and unless it gets better fast it’ll be the last book in the series I read.
 
Dave

Dave

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Okay the cat gets better pretty quickly. Had the dynamic stayed the way it was it would have been unreadable. As it stands it’s just moderately annoying.
 
Dave

Dave

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Okay so I'm almost done with book #1. It really picks up a lot once they nerf the cat. I'm still not 100% sold on the premise but the execution is decent. I'll read book #2 when done.
 
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