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[snes9x]

I finished Parasite Eve and I would definitely recommend it. Makes me want to replay the game.

Rereading Infinite Jest (lol) and trying to get through Martyr! but it reads like I'm watching a Netflix comedy-drama, idk if that makes sense. It's not awful but I wanted to give something contemporary (≥2020) a chance and my impression has been not very good.

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Currently re-reading 'Suicide' by Éduoard Levé. One of my favorites. The author ended his own life shortly after it was written, but I find that it's a surprisingly optimistic rumination on life and love/friendship.

Ooh, that sounds right up my alley.

 

[lestagio]

Just started reading The Martian by Andy Weir. My previous read was the Bachman Books Collection (Stephen King, contains Rage, Long Walk, Roadwork, and Running Man) which were all pretty solid. I've never read any King before that. I've been looking into some other King books like Misery, as I hear that his books under the Bachman name aren't indicative to a lot of his work. I especially enjoyed The Long Walk, though.

 

[Spyrone]

Just started reading The Martian by Andy Weir. My previous read was the Bachman Books Collection (Stephen King, contains Rage, Long Walk, Roadwork, and Running Man) which were all pretty solid. I've never read any King before that. I've been looking into some other King books like Misery, as I hear that his books under the Bachman name aren't indicative to a lot of his work. I especially enjoyed The Long Walk, though.

A lot of the Bachman Books are more brutal and far more cynical than his normal stuff. The Running Man is one of my favorite books of all time. Misery is good, the others I'd recommend are Cujo, Carrie, It, Pet Sematary, Desperation/The Regulators (those two are back to back and take place in parallel universes, The Regulators being the Bachman universe), Cell, The Stand Uncut and 11/22/63. I'm definitely more of fan of his scifi and horror stuff though, but I've heard good things about The Green Mile and Hearts In Atlantis. Also definitely check out his short story collections, like Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

 

[Ikagura]

A lot of the Bachman Books are more brutal and far more cynical than his normal stuff. The Running Man is one of my favorite books of all time. Misery is good, the others I'd recommend are Cujo, Carrie, It, Pet Sematary, Desperation/The Regulators (those two are back to back and take place in parallel universes, The Regulators being the Bachman universe), Cell, The Stand Uncut and 11/22/63. I'm definitely more of fan of his scifi and horror stuff though, but I've heard good things about The Green Mile and Hearts In Atlantis. Also definitely check out his short story collections, like Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

Bachman >>> King.


Hehehe.

 

[solnK!]

Been wanting to read Moby Dick, might as well doing it soon.

 

[snes9x]

Moby Dick was surprisingly homoerotic, though concepts of sexuality don't translate 1:1 through every era/culture. If anything it just proves we need to hug our homies more often.

 

[Ikagura]

Moby Dick was surprisingly homoerotic, though concepts of sexuality don't translate 1:1 through every era/culture. If anything it just proves we need to hug our homies more often.

No idea if this was intentionally done in an era where it was better to hide and have codewords or if it's merely coincidental.

Like when you see overly manly things from the past as it was considered the summit of virility but nowadays could be seen as homoeroticism.

 

[goldman2786]

I am 400 pages into the first Dungeon Crawler Carl. Honestly, I thought it was going to be (for lack of better words) "tumblr/Booktok bait", with lots of irony and quirkyness. Suprisingly, the story is dark humor and very well written. The characters are all given a lot to work with and the fight scenes(especially the boss fights) are all genuinely gripping.

This is my "light" read, as I just finished Marathoning Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, Peter Pan, Princess of Mars, and The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll. I would rate Dracula as my favorite out of them all. Princess of Mars was least favorite.

 

[CraigJinx]

Moby Dick.

 

[goldman2786]

I just finished Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. Really good. Reading my last several books really helped me get the references since it's half vampire alt history/half cross over for all of British Literature. I want to read the sequel when I can.

 

[Majora Fi]

I subscribed to Kindle Unlimited because it was the only cheap and legal way to read Shaman King (I need to figure out if I really hate this story or if the both anime are terrible).

 

[snes9x]

Been reading Empire of AI. Pretty depressing stuff.

 

[zombie100379]

13 hours of christian bale as

Patrick Bateman​

 

[Tsukishima]

I finished reading Metamorphosis & Before the Law from Franz Kafka.

I can't decide from No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai or some of H.P Lovecraft's stories next

 

[solnK!]

I subscribed to Kindle Unlimited because it was the only cheap and legal way to read Shaman King (I need to figure out if I really hate this story or if the both anime are terrible).
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Strange, I haven't met anyone who hasn't liked Shaman king

 

[Majora Fi]

Strange, I haven't met anyone who hasn't liked Shaman king

You just found it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

An uncle of mine dropped and handed me some of his old DnD Choose-your-own-adventure books, reading them to see how fast i kill my own ass by mistake

 

[badagess]

Bought a copy of one those “Inspired by a tabletop game session” books called “Falling on Folded Wings”. I'm two chapters in, and so far, so good. Here's hoping it sticks the landing and doesn't FALL flat on its face.

 

[snes9x]

I finished Empire of AI and it was good (other than a glaring overestimation in water usage they had to later retract) but it was kind of a slog near the end. I guess I got kind of burned out on all the inter-office drama/politics of OpenAI. Now I'm reading a Short Stay in Hell (which I very much enjoy), and also Sense & Sensibility because I don't read enough by the fairer sex. Still trucking through my second reading of Infinite Jest, about 850 pages in (counting footnotes)

 

[Bakuma1997]

Had to wash the 3D sin that was the 2026 Animal Farm movie off my mind, so i read the original novel after watching the 50's film

 

[seaglass]

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

 

[goldman2786]

After reading the second Anno Dracula book by Kim Newman(the bloody red barom), I decided to continue through my unread books and read what is probably my first Western novel, True Grit. It's pretty enjoyable and I barely remember the movie. Really goes into the characters heads and is a lot more emotional than I expected.