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I’ve read Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and am on the second of Asimov’s original Foundation Trilogy.
Somehow I've never read Ursula K Leguin. Reading Left Hand of Darkness and it's wonderful so far.
I know of the author but haven’t read any either. I seem to jump into a lot of different series and genres and am trying to get “complete” a few. I’m almost caught up in The Expanse series. I’ve read 7 of the 8 published. I think I knocked out 2 or 3 of those at the beginning of quarantine. Also meaning to jump back into the Enders Game / Shadow series.
Post by Fozzie Bear on May 13, 2020 10:24:02 GMT -5
I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and started a reread of Jurassic Park, but haven't finished the latter yet. I also started reading Future Noir (an extensive making-of book about Blade Runner), but am holding off reading more until I rewatch the movie.
I have read a few graphic novels, manga and screenplays:
Batman: The Long Halloween Batman: The Killing Joke Pulp Fiction Screenplay Good Will Hunting Screenplay Neon Genesis Evangelion
Post by potentpotables on May 13, 2020 11:14:43 GMT -5
I'm not a science fiction guy, but I read Stranger in a Strange Land last month and enjoyed it. I also read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (awful) and now I'm reading Sally Norman's Normal People (that is a series on Hulu, I'm reading the book first).
Somehow I've never read Ursula K Leguin. Reading Left Hand of Darkness and it's wonderful so far.
I know of the author but haven’t read any either. I seem to jump into a lot of different series and genres and am trying to get “complete” a few. I’m almost caught up in The Expanse series. I’ve read 7 of the 8 published. I think I knocked out 2 or 3 of those at the beginning of quarantine. Also meaning to jump back into the Enders Game / Shadow series.
love The Expanse. character driven, great world building, and turn-paging pacing. i still haven't gotten into the TV show (trying to get my wife on board).
Post by Dave Maynar on May 13, 2020 12:03:28 GMT -5
Since the last update,
Finished: Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - It got me mostly just because I like oral histories. It follows the rise of a fictional band in the 1970s through the people who were involved. Apparently, it was in Reese Witherspoon's Book Club which I didn't even know was a thing. Is it super original? Not at all. Did I enjoy? Yes, I did.
Kings Of The Wyld by Nicholas Eames - I like sci-fi/fantasy. From reading on this one, I enjoyed the prospect of taking the tried and true idea of monsters and heroes and putting a music spin on it. In the book world, mercenaries who fight monsters are basically rock stars even going so far as to referring to mercenary groups as bands. Unfortunately, it was Eames's first book and it shows. He tried to put a bunch of clever things in there, but much of it felt forced or, even worse, unfunny. Not a total waste, but I have zero motivation to pick up the second book in the series.
Reading now: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa - "Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award." is one of the most boss sentences ever to start a dust jacket bio. It's about a village on an island in Japan where things start disappearing both physically and from people's memory. Enjoying it quite a bit so far, but it's sad. Also, it may be extra rough for some right now given our current situation.
Up next: The City We Became by NK Jemisin - Another fantasy but modern day. Five people in NYC become the physical manifestations of the spirit/soul of the five boroughs. As is going to happen, someone decides that they got to die.
Immediate future books: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
I know of the author but haven’t read any either. I seem to jump into a lot of different series and genres and am trying to get “complete” a few. I’m almost caught up in The Expanse series. I’ve read 7 of the 8 published. I think I knocked out 2 or 3 of those at the beginning of quarantine. Also meaning to jump back into the Enders Game / Shadow series.
love The Expanse. character driven, great world building, and turn-paging pacing. i still haven't gotten into the TV show (trying to get my wife on board).
The show is awesome and is one of the most faithful book to tv adaptions. If you like the books, I’d be shocked if you didn’t also like the show.
I'm not a science fiction guy, but I read Stranger in a Strange Land last month and enjoyed it. I also read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (awful) and now I'm reading Sally Norman's Normal People (that is a series on Hulu, I'm reading the book first).
Always looking for fiction recs.
What type of fiction? I’m personally trying to read a lot of “famous” stuff that I feel like I should have read a long time ago.
For some more generic fiction, I enjoy Michael Connelly / John Sandford (cop murder mystery style) Vince Flynn / Clancy (spy / terrorist stuff), most of those are easy reads. Older Grisham stuff is always good although most are movies; I haven’t read much of his in the last decade.
love The Expanse. character driven, great world building, and turn-paging pacing. i still haven't gotten into the TV show (trying to get my wife on board).
The show is awesome and is one of the most faithful book to tv adaptions. If you like the books, I’d be shocked if you didn’t also like the show.
Screaming Warhawk here. Love the show. Starting the books. Like how the fans convinced Bezos to pick it up.
I'm not a science fiction guy, but I read Stranger in a Strange Land last month and enjoyed it. I also read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (awful) and now I'm reading Sally Norman's Normal People (that is a series on Hulu, I'm reading the book first).
Always looking for fiction recs.
What type of fiction? I’m personally trying to read a lot of “famous” stuff that I feel like I should have read a long time ago.
For some more generic fiction, I enjoy Michael Connelly / John Sandford (cop murder mystery style) Vince Flynn / Clancy (spy / terrorist stuff), most of those are easy reads. Older Grisham stuff is always good although most are movies; I haven’t read much of his in the last decade.
Yeah, I'm interested in classic lit. I'm trying to do Grapes of Wrath again, just started an hour ago.
What type of fiction? I’m personally trying to read a lot of “famous” stuff that I feel like I should have read a long time ago.
For some more generic fiction, I enjoy Michael Connelly / John Sandford (cop murder mystery style) Vince Flynn / Clancy (spy / terrorist stuff), most of those are easy reads. Older Grisham stuff is always good although most are movies; I haven’t read much of his in the last decade.
Yeah, I'm interested in classic lit. I'm trying to do Grapes of Wrath again, just started an hour ago.
Any other classic lit that you like? My mom and Gma are / were high school English teachers so I grew up reading a lot of “classics” outside of school.
Personally, Lord of the Flies is one of my favorites. I always loved 1984 and Animal Farm too. Fahrenheit 451, Night, Siddhartha, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are others on my bookshelf that I like. I should probably reread some of thee again but my current list seems to be getting really long.
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Yeah, I'm interested in classic lit. I'm trying to do Grapes of Wrath again, just started an hour ago.
Any other classic lit that you like? My mom and Gma are / were high school English teachers so I grew up reading a lot of “classics” outside of school.
Personally, Lord of the Flies is one of my favorites. I always loved 1984 and Animal Farm too. Fahrenheit 451, Night, Siddhartha, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are others on my bookshelf that I like. I should probably reread some of thee again but my current list seems to be getting really long.
I'm the stereotypical teenage boy still - The Catcher in the Rye remains my favorite novel of all time. I used to read it once a year, but now haven't read it in probably a decade. I wonder if it *still* holds up and whether that would be a good thing.
Others include Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sun Also Rises/Farewell to Arms, 1984/Animal Farm (been awhile for those, too)...I just finally got into Great Gatsby like two years ago, but it was wonderful.
I finished Normal People, and it was fine. Exactly what I want in a novel these days - short, breezy to read, but gives you things to think about, character driven.
I also try to do a ratio of 1:1 fiction to non-fiction. So I just started the book "Johnny Carson" by Henry Bushkin, who was his longtime attorney and Carson's self described best friend. I have recently read both The Late Shift and The War for Late Night (Leno v. Letterman in early 90s, Conan replacing Leno, then back again around 2009-10), so I figured Carson was next.
I'm not a science fiction guy, but I read Stranger in a Strange Land last month and enjoyed it. I also read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (awful) and now I'm reading Sally Norman's Normal People (that is a series on Hulu, I'm reading the book first).
Mike Schur was recently on Ezra Klein's podcast and recommended this as an example of great storytelling. I like good storytelling so I picked it up. Finished it night before last.
Obviously it's a spy story. Since the book was published in 1963, and having been inundated with spy movies my whole life, I was worried I would only enjoy it from the perspective of "oh yeah so that's where <plot device x> comes from the in the spy genre". That was not the case. It is a hell of a good story, told with precision and focus. It pulled off what great movies (or shorter novels) do: told a narrow and linear story with thematic repercussions that ripple out to tell us something about human nature.
I think the themes are just a prescient today as they were back then, but the fact that it was written back then makes it all the more stupendous. Recommended to everyone.
^^^i'll throw this out there if you haven't read it. after this i went back to Le Carre's first book and am making my way through the rest of his George Smiley novels, at least until I get to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
I'm the stereotypical teenage boy still - The Catcher in the Rye remains my favorite novel of all time. I used to read it once a year, but now haven't read it in probably a decade. I wonder if it *still* holds up and whether that would be a good thing.
For my junior year of high school, we had a student teacher for English. She was in her final year at UTK, and this was her first time in charge of a class. Sometime during the year, she asked me if I had read Catcher In The Rye. I had not because it was a classic, and nobody had forced me to through school. In addition, I had no real idea of what it was about. She suggested I read it because I reminded her of the protagonist. Being the person I was, I pointedly did not read it until the end of college because I was not going to be told what to do. While reading it, I thought back to my teacher who had told me about it long ago, and my reaction was something to the effect of, "That b*tch... who was pretty much spot on"
Yeah, I'm interested in classic lit. I'm trying to do Grapes of Wrath again, just started an hour ago.
Any other classic lit that you like? My mom and Gma are / were high school English teachers so I grew up reading a lot of “classics” outside of school.
Personally, Lord of the Flies is one of my favorites. I always loved 1984 and Animal Farm too. Fahrenheit 451, Night, Siddhartha, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are others on my bookshelf that I like. I should probably reread some of thee again but my current list seems to be getting really long.
LotF is so fucking good.
I really need to finish the Passos trilogy but 42nd (which is the best by a fair amount) and 1919 were much better than what I've got through on Big Money
Post by 3post1jack1 on Sept 25, 2020 8:50:42 GMT -5
decided to jump back into the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. However it's been a long time since I read the first book (Way of Kings), so I tried to start book two (Words of Radiance) but had no idea what was going on. I found this fantastic summary video on youtube. 48 minutes long, must have taken that kid forever to make, but it totally caught me up.
anyway about halfway through Words of Radiance now and really enjoying it. if you haven't read the series it's a really fantastic world with some great character building.
decided to jump back into the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. However it's been a long time since I read the first book (Way of Kings), so I tried to start book two (Words of Radiance) but had no idea what was going on. I found this fantastic summary video on youtube. 48 minutes long, must have taken that kid forever to make, but it totally caught me up.
anyway about halfway through Words of Radiance now and really enjoying it. if you haven't read the series it's a really fantastic world with some great character building.
anytime you wanna go deep on these, I’m in. Just saw that book 4 comes out in November so I’ll probably start a reread after I finish Dune Messiah.
If you haven’t read the novella, Edgedancer, highly recommend it between Radiance & Oathbringer.
decided to jump back into the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. However it's been a long time since I read the first book (Way of Kings), so I tried to start book two (Words of Radiance) but had no idea what was going on. I found this fantastic summary video on youtube. 48 minutes long, must have taken that kid forever to make, but it totally caught me up.
anyway about halfway through Words of Radiance now and really enjoying it. if you haven't read the series it's a really fantastic world with some great character building.
anytime you wanna go deep on these, I’m in. Just saw that book 4 comes out in November so I’ll probably start a reread after I finish Dune Messiah.
If you haven’t read the novella, Edgedancer, highly recommend it between Radiance & Oathbringer.
thank you for the tip re: edgedancer, i will check it out before Oathbringer. i'm typically a slower reader but i'm making my way through WoR pretty quickly. i bought the audiobook too so i'm listening sometimes and reading sometimes which helps. after finding that youtube channel i realize there is a whole discourse of fan theories etc. about the series, after i get current i'd be happy to dive in with you, just holding out to avoid spoilers.
while the book is by no means rated G, at the risk of sounding like a prude it is nice to read a fantasy series that isn't chock full of GoT inspired rated R content. i'm enjoying the story and the world building without being punched in the gut by disturbing content every other chapter.
having said that outside of this series i haven't been a massive Brandon Sanderson fan. on the flipside of my statement above, i read the first book in Mistborn and it was fine but leaned a little too YA for me. but i was deep into "weird fiction" at the time so i was coming at it from that bias. i've heard the rest of the mistborn series is great, i could see myself getting back into it.
i do respect sanderson's work ethic, he works hard and puts out content unlike some other epic fantasy writers. and although i dropped out of WoT around book four (decades ago) i respect that he took on that project and finished it.
Any other classic lit that you like? My mom and Gma are / were high school English teachers so I grew up reading a lot of “classics” outside of school.
Personally, Lord of the Flies is one of my favorites. I always loved 1984 and Animal Farm too. Fahrenheit 451, Night, Siddhartha, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are others on my bookshelf that I like. I should probably reread some of thee again but my current list seems to be getting really long.
LotF is so fucking good.
I really need to finish the Passos trilogy but 42nd (which is the best by a fair amount) and 1919 were much better than what I've got through on Big Money
So funny you mention LotF. I literally picked it up and reading it again since it’s been a while. I needed to take a break from SyFy. I’ve been sorting thru my books and it’s funny looking back at a lot of the classics because I didn’t realize so many of them are super short. LotF is under 200. I may have to keep mixing in some classics more often.
I've been on a British humor fantasy kick lately. Knocked out the Dirk Gently novels from douglas adams and am nearly finished with Pratchett/Gaiman's good omens.
I've been on a British humor fantasy kick lately. Knocked out the Dirk Gently novels from douglas adams and am nearly finished with Pratchett/Gaiman's good omens.
Have you seen the Good Omens TV show? It's fantastic if you haven't.
decided to jump back into the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. However it's been a long time since I read the first book (Way of Kings), so I tried to start book two (Words of Radiance) but had no idea what was going on. I found this fantastic summary video on youtube. 48 minutes long, must have taken that kid forever to make, but it totally caught me up.
anyway about halfway through Words of Radiance now and really enjoying it. if you haven't read the series it's a really fantastic world with some great character building.
anytime you wanna go deep on these, I’m in. Just saw that book 4 comes out in November so I’ll probably start a reread after I finish Dune Messiah.
If you haven’t read the novella, Edgedancer, highly recommend it between Radiance & Oathbringer.
So I finished Radiance and it was great, the last third of the book in particular was absolutely thrilling. It reminded me of the power of really great epic fantasy, I haven't felt that good reading a book in a long time.
Read through Edgedancer quickly after that and it was also great, thanks again for telling me about that.
I'm about 20% into Oathbringer now and no surprise it is also great. I'm starting to grok the immensity of the world Sanderson has built and the numerous mysteries underlying it all.
I'm so impressed with Sanderson that I'm considering doing Wheel of Time after this. Really curious to see what he does with the ending, and there is something kind of masochisticly exciting about taking on a 14 book epic fantasy series that I stopped reading after book 3 when I was 15 years old.
I've been on a British humor fantasy kick lately. Knocked out the Dirk Gently novels from douglas adams and am nearly finished with Pratchett/Gaiman's good omens.
Have you seen the Good Omens TV show? It's fantastic if you haven't.
Not yet - it's the reason I started reading the book. I've read some Pratchett and gaimen, but wanted to read good omens before starting the show. Glad to know it's good.
I'm so impressed with Sanderson that I'm considering doing Wheel of Time after this. Really curious to see what he does with the ending, and there is something kind of masochisticly exciting about taking on a 14 book epic fantasy series that I stopped reading after book 3 when I was 15 years old.
heyyitskait or anyone else, thoughts on this? i'll likely wrap up Oathbringer this month and hop right into RoW on Nov 17, but after that i think it's back into WoT. worth it or waste of time?
one of the booktubers i follow (daniel greene) is a huge WoT stan which is pushing me in that direction. him and i also agree on Stormlight's greatness and the terribleness of Terry Goodkind (rip) so our tastes seem to be similar.
I'm so impressed with Sanderson that I'm considering doing Wheel of Time after this. Really curious to see what he does with the ending, and there is something kind of masochisticly exciting about taking on a 14 book epic fantasy series that I stopped reading after book 3 when I was 15 years old.
heyyitskait or anyone else, thoughts on this? i'll likely wrap up Oathbringer this month and hop right into RoW on Nov 17, but after that i think it's back into WoT. worth it or waste of time?
one of the booktubers i follow (daniel greene) is a huge WoT stan which is pushing me in that direction. him and i also agree on Stormlight's greatness and the terribleness of Terry Goodkind (rip) so our tastes seem to be similar.
ive never read wheel of time. The people I know who have say that he did a wonderful job with it though.
I just started my re-read of Stormlight Archives. I’ll probably just skip to the new one when it’s released. The first book is a bit of a slog for me this time around.
