And what’s on your to read shelf?
Since Reddit went, I actually have returned to books for my reading material, which had been replaced basically by massive ask reddit threads. As a result I’m trying to read some things I shouldve a long time ago.
Just finished the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and I’m on to the second book in the series. It was as good as its legacy lead me to believe!
One more hoopy frood who knows where their towel is!
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The Three Body Problem saga, I just finished the first book. I’m enjoying this as much as I enjoyed DUNE
The author is just brilliant at pacing a novel.
Going through the Red Rising series, which some of my friends praise immensely. Lightbringer just came out, though I’m only just finished Morning Star, book 3/6 in the series. Going to be starting Iron Gold soon. But until them, I’m reading 1984, which I just acquired a nice hardcover copy of.
House of Leaves is a fuckin trip
I’m reading it right now and yeah, it does some shit with format I’ve never seen before.
I would have liked it to do less shit with format, to be honest. I don’t want to turn a book in circles so I can follow the text.
That’s the fun part!
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I checked that out from a library once on a recommendation and ended up returning it in less than a week. Shit was waaaaaaaaaay too confusing for me lmao
This maybe my next read 🙂
Other than the infrequent bits where he discusses home life and social events (which I tend to skim), it’s a pretty engaging read. It’s also kind of shocking how little he could get anyone from the alphabet agencies to care. I’m approaching the end and it’s getting exciting in that nerdy way that a good hacker story does. Hope you enjoy it.
Infinite Jest.
Or rather, trying to read it. It’s more like an eternal cycle of starting, stopping, and then restarting again.
DFW’s writing is great though.
Currently Reading “The stormlight archive” series by Brandon Sanderson (still on the first book “the way of kings” though). I already read most other books of the cosmere (Sanderson’s Universe where most of his books take place). Highly recommend it!
Just finished ‘The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’ by Becky Chambers - quite fun space opera (if you like Firefly etc.), I’ll definitely pick up the rest of the series at one point.
Started reading ‘They Never Learn’ by Layne Fargo - Starts interesting, I feel I’ll finish this one.
After that I will definitely start reading ‘All Systems Red’ by Martha Wells - I’ve been hearing about ‘Murderbot Diaries’ and how good they are for years now…
I like reading scifi most, but always try to squeeze some other genre in between.
“Full Sea” by Chang-Rae Lee. Dystopian fiction, but not sci Fi and not like any dystopian fiction I’ve ever read. It’s about a young girl who makes her living as a tank diver in a giant hydroponics farm/fish farm. They make her boyfriend disappear for genetic experimentation, because he’s the only human the researchers have ever seen who is completely cancer-free. She poisons the fish and leaves the farm compound forever to find him. Very few workers have ever left the compound, because it’s so dangerous outside. Some bad stuff happens.
Currently reading Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications by Abraham et al. Basically, how do you do geometry and calculus on surfaces or objects that are enough like a surface?
For STEM nerds: this book discusses manifolds in infinite dimensional spaces as well as finite dimensions. I believe there is a fluid dynamics application in the book that requires the infinite dimensional theory. There are far simpler books to learn this material if you just need to speedrun into calculations, but I really want the “full story”.
Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. After that, I plan to read “The Dark Edge of Night” by Mark Pryor, a mystery novel that follows a French detective’s investigations in Nazi-occupied Paris during the Second World War.
I started reading the Wool series after recently watching the Silo TV show. Pretty good so far, the world building is surprisingly fun.
I have 5-20 minutes between calls at my work, so I’ve had plenty of time to sneak in some books on the clock.
I’ve been rereading through the Cosmere, so Mistborn eras 1+2, Warbreaker, and I’m currently reading Elantris.
To-read is Tress of the Emerald sea, then I probably should go for a non-fiction book to feel more enightened
Check out The Emperor’s Soul also by Sanderson. It’s short but IMO is his best work.
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Keep meaning to read this but wasn’t a fan of his symphonies
I freaking loved this book. The epic time scales were just sooo good. The sequel is solid too!
