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Perdito station by China Meiville(hope I spelled it right) I just started a week ago and have only been able to read a bit because of time constraints but so far I'm pretty intrigued.
Linux Kernel development, Operating Systems Principals & Practice, Computer Systems A Programmer's Perspective, and Forward the Foundation
Book 4 of the Wheel of Time (about half way through). Series has been something I've started on and off for 20 years, but picked up the first book after my Dad died a couple of months back and finding it a lot easier to stick with it this time around.
Hey, Im on the last one, been at it for over a year now. Can recommend it, it's a good read. Wont spoil :)
Stephen Kings IT. Also listening to Stephen King The Outsider in preparation of Holly coming out in September.
Just started βYumi and The Nightmare Painterβ
Catch-22. The classic itself
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Book of Leaves and Tao Te Ching
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I borrowed it from a friend so long ago I don't remember who it was. Like... More than 10 years ago. I didn't expect it to start out so strangely, especially after finishing The Three Body Problem lol. And that one started very strangely!
I'm reading The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman
Currently reading A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlà Clark on and off. It's a sequel to a story called A Dead Djinn in Cairo (and others in the same universe) by the same author. The worldbuilding is pretty good. It transports you to this fantasy steampunk version of the world where Egyptian and Arabian culture is dominant (vs just Victorian, as is usually the case with steampunk).
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Do audiobooks count? I'm on chapter 27 of The Stand with about 38 hours to go. It's been quite the experience in this post-Covid world.
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I've read more books in the last month than I have in 5 years. I'm really enjoying getting back into it
- Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
I usually don't stay engaged with non-fiction, but this book I couldn't put down.
The Culture series by Ian Banks
Do you find it hard to "visualize" Banks' writing? I read Consider Phlebas and I'm part way through Player of Games right now, but it takes me forever* to get through these books because I feel lost and can't make a mental picture of wtf is going on. The Culture series reminds me a lot of Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series, but I had no trouble wrapping my mind around Reynolds' far-future setting. Is there a book somewhere in the middle of the Culture series that I should start with to get a better description of his universe?
I'm doing the audio books, but that doesn't make it any easier to follow. I thought player of games was absolutely fantastic and brilliantly written, but I've found some of the books very complex.
With player of games he never actually describes the nature of the game board itself. I think that was intentional, he left it up to the reader. I found that fascinating.
I'm a bit of an aspiring author and this series is quite frankly inspiring. Not in it's confounding complexity but all the good bits.
Some of it is hard to visualize but for me sometimes it's hard to follow. I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds him challenging.
The one I'm on now seems to have elephant people in it and I definitely didn't quite put that together for quite a while lol.
As far as the nature of the culture, I don't know if any one book does a better job of describing the universe. Each book illustrates one facet of it, in my opinion. It's a big universe he's made, you get snapshots.
It's like he has this universe in his head and with each book he is exploring one specific topic of discussion, in the culture universe, and with each book it sheds a little more light onto what the culture really is.
It reminds me of the stainless steel rat series. Deep and meaningful ideas tempered by humor and whimsy.
I am reading the first book of the series Empire of the Moghul right now.
Classified as historical fiction, it is very interesting to see how the kingdoms evolved and spread in Central Asia.
Segans " The Demon Haunted World"
Currently reading Coda vol. 1 right now. Liking the main character particularly his pentacorn.
I'm halfway through the first Witcher book. After being disappointed with the Netflix show, I had to read the original source. I'm enjoying it so far. My goal is to read them all and play the games afterwards.
Congrats on walking the path! Yeah the books are great and really hit you hard at times. No spoilers from me but enjoy the book series!
Before They are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie. Itβs book 2 of the First Law series. Iβm mainly a Sci-fi reader, but started this fantasy series, and wow, what a ride.
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. I'm on page 30 of 160.
Also procrastinating on these:
- Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
- A Manual for Creating Atheists - Peter Boghossian
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1, it may be a little bit outdated, but the core concepts still stand.
A collection of Kafka short stories
Everything is f*cked.
Wage Labor and Capital - Karl Marx. Itβs very small but Iβm taking my time with it
Iβm in kind of a rotation of Sci-Fi (last: Children of Dune), classic novels (Dune kinda counts but my last from this category was Lord of the Flies), and nonfiction/leftism
Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.
Blindsight by Peter Watts. it's a really unique take on first contact, but wow is it dark
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator's "voice".
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
"Necropolis" (Gaunt's Ghosts 3) by Dan Abnett. Whole lot of Warhammer 40k goodness.
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