What are you reading? Books, articles or publications of any kind!

[Asininedrivel]

Ground my way through We Have Always Lived In the Castle.

Weird one, I usually like older books and the good ones don't seem to date, but this one did. Endlessly repetitive descriptive prose and just so loooong with an ending akin to a muffled fart. Entirely possible I just didn't get it, but it just felt needlessly drawn out while going in circles. Given that it's largely about the state of the mind (I think?), perhaps that was the point.

 

[SlowManiac]

If anyone enjoys military history, give Commando by Deneys Reitz a whirl.
It's a rather incredible tale of Boer guerilla warfare in the 2nd Boer war. These guys were incredibly hardcore - farmers on horseback against the might of the British army.

 

[Hools]

Re-reading an old favourite. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Holiday reading.

 

[ForkinGreat]

Re-reading an old favourite. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Holiday reading.

Currently reading Agency by William Gibson. TV series The Peripheral - is based on the book, AFAIK.

 

[Hools]

Currently reading Agency by William Gibson. TV series The Peripheral - is based on the book, AFAIK.

It is, based on but not exactly the same. They did a good job though. Excellent show, pretty sure it’s been renewed for a second season.

 

[Rorschach]

Currently reading Agency by William Gibson. TV series The Peripheral - is based on the book, AFAIK.

Hmm, will need to look this up. I quite liked Pattern Recognition and looks an interesting concept.

I'm reading the Inverted Frontier books by Linda Nagata, mainly as its the only thing that looked any good on my Kindle recommendations. Its hard going, and I'm only really persevering with it as I want to see what happens. This is coming from a fan of Iain M Banks too...

 

[johnny]

Bleak.

 

[PJO]

This was my holiday read. Entertaining but a little weird

Now halfway through this:

So far of the three Murakami books I've read/reading, The wind-up bird chronicle has been the best.

 

[johnny]

Not the most well-written book I've ever read, but interesting case studies. Only up to page 130 at the moment, hoping that there's more analysis of aims, methods, successes, failures, etc. than there has been so far, rather than just a chronicling of events.

 

[indica]

 

[Oddjob]

Best sci fi I have read in many years.

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[rextheute]

Try the ’ protectorate ‘trilogy by Megan O’Keefe - has a bit of everything .

The Protectorate Series by Megan E. O'Keefe

Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate, #1), Chaos Vector (The Protectorate, #2), and Catalyst Gate (The Protectorate, #3)

www.goodreads.com

also the ‘ Nophek Gloss ‘ by Essa Hansen

Nophek Gloss

Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his…

www.goodreads.com

also I’ve started on and older series ‘ Rivers of London ‘ by Ben Aaronovitch , police style with magic , history and a good solid mystery .

Rivers of London

Buy books online and find book series such as Rivers of London written by Ben Aaronovitch from PenguinRandomHouse.com

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Not as hi-faluting as some others read , but a good place to go in your head .

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne

I'm not reading the og, I don't know French, so it's an English translation and I guess there has been some "modernisation" of the language as it doesn't read as ye olde as Moby Dick did.

I'm really enjoying it, regarded as the book (or one of the books) that kicked off the Science Fiction genre, I can see myself reading some more of his gear.

Sci Fi being my favourite genre I'm feeling pretty bad ass and core reading it.

 

[SlowManiac]

Best sci fi I have read in many years.
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Very much enjoying this at the moment, excellent tip.
Prose is a little awkward in places but great story.

 

[johnny]

Don't know if anyone else has been getting into this, but it is a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrollicking fucking ride! Just scan it when you have 5 mins.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in-dominion-fox-news-case/dca5e3880422426f/full.pdf

 

[ForkinGreat]

Don't know if anyone else has been getting into this, but it is a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrollicking fucking ride! Just scan it when you have 5 mins.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in-dominion-fox-news-case/dca5e3880422426f/full.pdf

I really think that Dominion should go to court and have its lawyers grind Turdoch and his minions into dust. and take them for as many billion dollars as they can.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

Currently reading The Witcher: Sword of Destiny.

It's a series of short stories, I don't mind it and see myself jumping into the series at some point.

But for now I'm going to kick off Frankenstein, I have high expectations for this one.

 

[wesdadude]

But for now I'm going to kick off Frankenstein, I have high expectations for this one.

Most people I've spoken to like this more than me. Just can't get behind 100s of pages of the limp-dicked Dr. Frankenstein moping around.

 

[fjohn860]

Long-ish but interesting article on titanium.

The Story of Titanium

The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's only recently that...

www.construction-physics.com

 

[Asininedrivel]

Currently cranking the End Of Days trilogy by John Birmingham (author of He Died with a Felafel in His Hand and the f***ing excellent alternate history Axis Of Time trilogy).

Predictably, End Of Days is really, really good. Kind of like a modern take on The Stand, but manages to make a Chinese instigated (and initially very successful) World War III entirely plausible via some pretty detailed cyberattacks. Really good character development too.