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[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Share what you have been reading/listening to and what you thought of it.

I'm currently halfway through "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows (audiobook version).

I find it super charming and interesting, genuinely funny, and even brilliant at times. Truly surprised by this book that, at first glance, really didn't seem to have much to offer... I guess there's a reason why that one saying is eternal.

What about you?

 

[dropsmegamega]

I am slowly starting Melmoth the Wanderer. I don't know very well how to describe it, its a fairly unique gothic novel written in a cynical style that borders comedy by being absurd and dark. Definitely my kind of stuff.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I've been reading the Kuu ga Ue kara Shitsurei Shimasu or Kuu Intrudes from Above manga. I guess it's interesting because she wanted to get taller and she got really tall.

 

[PhrawzT]

My mom gave me an e-reader so I immediately got The Hobbit. I'm a little over halfway through.

 

[moonbits]

Why has nobody told me this before? by Dr Julie Smith

 

[gerorisuto]

My last read was Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. Small book but a hard read. Still very interesting.

 

[Octopus]

I'm finishing up Doom Guy, the John Romero autobiography then after that I'm planning on going through The Shadow pulp novels; I have Partners in Peril and The Shadow Unmasks lined up, I'm excited. After that, no idea.

 

[BinaryMessiah]

I'm currently trying to get through the Halo novels on my Kindle Oasis. I own a ton of video novels physically, but I got to a point in which I had nowhere to put them. I also read comics on my tablet. So far, the Halo novels are great.

For physical books I recently dropped a bunch of money on BitMap Books. Some of the most beautiful history based hardbacks on video games I have ever seen. Just stunning layouts and tons of great information.

 

[_Lorenzo_]

About two weeks ago I finished reading a substantial collection of short stories by Alphonse Allais, an author gifted with great sagacity and subtle humor who lived at the turn of the early 20th century. I had already read a few of his short stories as a young man, but nothing more. I read the book in Italian translated from French and the title reads as follows: <<A truly Parisian drama and other tales>>... you guys, this is GENIAL! If you are in the mood for a read that is at once light, relaxing and playful, I recommend it!

 

[Inkingsama]

The Silmarillion. In comparison to the Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, it has both the best and the worst of tolkien writing( in my opinion): An epic narration of a fantastical world filled with creatures, heroes and villians. There's drama, betrayal, conflict, moments of sorrow, moments of joy and then there's 6 pages worth of the description of how the elves, dwarves and humans are distributed over the world. I'm not the type of guy that likes to check a map every few lines to see where are those places that tolkien is talking about.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Currently... "Queen Bees & Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman.

Even though my girls are still nowhere near the age where I'd need the advise presented on this book, I appreciate the chance to learn it before "crisis time".

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Gonna read another Nichijou chapter in a bit.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne.

 

[Flaming_Metal_Systems]

The Book of the Perfect Life: Theologia Deutsch-Theologia Germanica by Franckforter

Theologia Germanica - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[A man on a computer]

I know it's very overrated, I've been reading the "House of leaves" recently. I find it very thoughtful.

 

[Gorse]

I know it's very overrated, I've been reading the "House of leaves" recently. I find it very thoughtful.

Overrated or not, I'm desperately hoping that the renewed interest of House of Leaves leads to more of these deep, dense ARG-style books. There were loads of them in the 2000s, but they seem to have completely died out, now. They'd be a great way to get kids back into reading in the modern age.

 

[A man on a computer]

They'd be a great way to get kids back into reading in the modern age.

The thing is I recently turned thirty... I'm at page 58 right now in the house. I also got "The King in Yellow" I'm at page 36 on that.

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I love horror, or maybe very abstract things I don't really understand. It makes me feel like the world is bigger than it really is.

 

[goldman2786]

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne.

I recently finished that a month or two ago. Way better than I expected. It's aged quite well for the time. Really fun story that I don't think has ever had a proper adaptation.

 

[Karnik]

Whispered voices, for a few, out of the chorus: Who am I? teachings by Ramana Maharshi and I am That, talks by Nisargadatta Maharaj. ? ?

 

[CaptainGreedEye]

I Am In Eskew a podcast series I listen to.​

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I Am In Eskew

Science Fiction Podcast · 32 Episodes · Series

podcasts.apple.com

 

[chrismas]

Spent the last few days ogling (not reading) this collection of Cormac McCarthy's 90s books (his so-called "Border Trilogy")... still haven't opened the damn thing. Last thing I read to completion, about a month or two ago, was a short story, The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin.

 

[OnTarget]

I've been reading A Clockwork Orange. It's a rather difficult read because a good half of the words are a conlang that Burgess made up as a language teens adopted so that their parents couldn't understand them. That said, you can suss out most of the meanings from context.

I've also been re-listening to an audiobook of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

 

[PKT]

Ever since college I've been mostly reading textbooks. Self study is quite fun since the pressure to present or test is gone. Been reading up on Universal Algebra cause algebra was always what interested me most.

 

[Bonkers225]

Get Happy - Judy Garland Biography
Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Witches

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Reading Against the day by Thomas Pynchon and The Recognitions by William Gaddis.