Currently reading (or last read)?

[moats_art]

I’m currently reading Words of Radiance. The way the first book ended was so so good. I also just recently finished a Day of Fallen Night from Samantha Shannon. I’ve been meaning to read her Bone season series but this hold that BrandySandy has on me is unshakable.

 

[Ikagura]

I've finally finished reading 1984!

Now I'm pondering my next choice in books.

I'm just not wanting to get fed up with reading but I also want to keep the momentum.

 

[ilikeonions]

Last finished was "What I Believe" by Bertrand Russell, I tried "Darth Plagueis" by James Luceno but couldn't get into it, same with "Les Misérables" by Hugo. I'll probably try "Ghosts of My Life" by Fisher, hopefully I stick to the end with this one

 

[solidbatman]

On the last book of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series (Lords of Uncreation). Nowhere near as good as the trio of Children books (Children of Time, Children of Ruin, Children of Memory) but a fun sci-fi romp nonetheless. Honestly, just trying to be patient for Children of Strife. If I get uplifted talking sci-fi shrimp, I will be a very happy lad.

 

[Ikagura]

but couldn't get into it, same with "Les Misérables" by Hugo.

I kinda have lost the courage as it's a 5-books long story.

It's basically like having to watch a 5 seasons show since it was a serial.

 

[snes9x]

I just finished the Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche. His arrogance was refreshing after going through the "aw shucks I'm just a humble lover of truth" fake humility of the Republic. Definitely lots of food for thought.

 

[Ikagura]

I'm almost done with Nothing Lasts Forever.


I am pondering to know what I'd read next but I'll make a notebook of what I got.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Finished two James Patterson books back-to-back, a graphic novel and a YA mystery... The Runaway Diary and MK's Detective Club.

They were both pretty painful to sit through, even though both had their moments. I honestly want to call them "Discount Van Draanen's Runaway" and "Discount Sammy Keyes". It's honestly what they felt like, the first one specially.

YA and graphic novels are always a gamble, but most are better than this.

 

[ilikeonions]

I kinda have lost the courage as it's a 5-books long story.

It's basically like having to watch a 5 seasons show since it was a serial.

Yeah serialized books are a pain in the ass, they're usually filled with long descriptions of the most random topics from their respective time period, scenes are very stretched out to the point you lose track of details and are harder to get into. I was lucky with The Count of Monte Cristo, that one didn't feel like a slog and the plot was intriguing enough to keep me hooked, same with Crime and Punishment, can't say the same for The Idiot, took me almost a year to finish

 

[partymembervii]

The last novel I read was The Faithless, book two of CL Clark's Magic of the Lost series of sapphic adult fantasy. I loved the first book and I might've loved its sequel even more, with all sorts of juicy colonization and political commentary and sapphic tension building off that of its predecessor

 

[Ikagura]

Yeah serialized books are a pain in the ass, they're usually filled with long descriptions of the most random topics from their respective time period, scenes are very stretched out to the point you lose track of details and are harder to get into. I was lucky with The Count of Monte Cristo, that one didn't feel like a slog and the plot was intriguing enough to keep me hooked, same with Crime and Punishment, can't say the same for The Idiot, took me almost a year to finish

Speaking of series I like when each books are still separate stories.

2001 a Space Odyssey has two sequels but the first one is still good on its own, same with Dune. As for Lord of the Ring it's harder since it's a trilogy of the same story.

 

[Jimbo_McDumbo]

I downloaded the PDFs for all the completed Jojo manga. I have always had a soft spot for Phantom Blood. Regardless of what the haters say its a fun blend of a Dickensian tale, penny dreadfuls, and kung fu movies. The succinct length does everything it wants with the Joestars and moves on without lingering. It's a fun read or watch that sets up everything to come next in the Joestar dynasty.

 

[snes9x]

I'm one book ahead of my goal for a book a week. I'm gonna binge a few short books so I have wiggle room when I start on the Recognitions (1100 pages!) and can give it the attention it demands

 

[solidbatman]

halfway done with Lords of Uncreation now. fine fine, its a good book. after nearly dropping the series in Eyes of the Void, im glad I powered on through.

 

[Neopolitan]

Finally got to read Silverborn, Nevermoor book #4, after waiting five years for it to come out. Kinda underwhelmed tbh. Everything in it pales in comparison to book #3. The stakes are a joke (it's a cozy murder mystery, and yes, the characters even mention cozy murder mysteries as a thing themselves because meta 4th wall breaking references are a thing now), the mysteries we've waited five years to get some answers to (President Wintersea? The safeguard?), nope, nothing on them. What happened to Ezra Squall? I thought he was supposed to be EVIL?! Everything bad in the first three books are his fault (except he gets outplayed by President Wintersea in book 3, but he was still to blame for it all), whereas he's almost NICE in this one! He saves the day! He helps out! He doesn't do anything evil! Can people stop defanging cool villains and making them NICE please?!

I could complain for ages. It wasn't a terrible book despite my complaints, and if it had come out before book 3 I would have been perfectly fine with it. But the fact it came out after book 3, which set the bar pretty damn high, the fact it got delayed for FIVE YEARS, and the fact that we might have to wait another five or more years to get answers to questions book 3 raised, and I just ... blegh. Not worth the wait. So sad.

Oh yeah, I also read A Heart Full of Hatred, the new Skulduggery Pleasant book. Anyone else feel like he's just phoning it in at this point? Valkyrie is an even bigger punching bag than ever before (which is saying something for someone who once had her head ripped off and had to put it back on) and Skulduggery himself was barely even in it at all, like an actor who was only on set for five minutes and then went home.

 

[snes9x]

Reading Democracy Doesn't Exist (But We'll Miss It When It's Gone) and it's a decent if not terribly enlightening critique/defense of the western democratic ideal. Been incredibly jaded politically as of late so it's nice to have some grounding even if it's primarily demsoc platitudes.