I am reading mangas these days. Read first 4 volumes of Attack on Titans, but since I am reading these through 3-in-1 omnibus, going to read till 6th volume at least. Will decide the next book after that.
What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Right now Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
It’s time. I’ve started my annual trek through Middle-earth. I’m reading the first book of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’ve been looking forward to this all year long. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to lose myself in Eriador.
Just finished Blindsight by Peter Watts (fucking excellent, possibly a new favourite)
Gonna try tackling House of Leaves again now that I’m all done school!
Interesting, haven’t read a hard sci-fi book in quite a while, going to check it out.
Definitely recommend Blindsight!
Thanks, have added it to my list.
Get echopraxia too (the sequal)!
Planning to! I also really wanna check out the rifters series, I really am quite fond of his style of writing.
This week I started The Dresden Files and have made it to the end of the second book in three days. So enjoying it so far!
Thanks for the rec ;p
Oooh, would love to hear what you think of the books as you continue with the series.
My initial thoughts so far are that the writing style / feel reminds me a lot of the Odd Thomas books from Dean Koontz but I will let you know as I go along how I am finding them :D
That’s a very strange comparison, but I only read 1 Odd Thomas book, and that was couple of decades ago, so don’t recall them clearly.
I can’t even put my finger on why it feels similar to me so I can’t quantify that at all, I guess it is just that. A feeling.
I’m having a Mistborn summer, already coming towards the end of #2 of 7! Sandon Branderson sure does write long books, but these are like popcorn, lots of action and easy reads
Sanderson is a machine. I love how prolific he is. Whenever I’m in the mood to read his style, there’s always something new to pick up.
I read the Mistborn books about 10 years ago – and the follow-up series maybe 3 years ago. Very fun!
Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive book 4, Rhythm of War. I opened Way of Kings for the first time 5 weeks ago and 3600ish pages later I’m still engrossed. I’d planned on waiting for the series to finish but I missed chewing through epic fantasy on this scale.
Once I’m caught up through book #5 I’m thinking its time for another go at Malazan.
Other than Martin, Rothfuss and Jordan are there any other works with similar scale/complexity/depth as Stormlight and Malazan?
Unconquerable Sun. It’s a sort of Alexander the Great in space with gender norms thrown out the window. Super detailed. Super layered. Amazing writing. Kate Elliott is one of my favorite authors based on this book!
Thank you, added to the list!
Have you read the witness stuff yet? I read the first butbhavnt started the second yet.
Its definitely not the same scale, but I got into Glenn Cooks black company from malazan and loved it!
Who wrote The Witness? Not an easy title to search for 😅
I read Black Company yeaaars ago and the grimdark and gritty writing definitely primed me for Malazan. I’ll definitely look into it again!
I partly want 1000+ page epics for the dollar to hour ratio; trying to support my local bookstore but paying $20-30+ for paperbacks stings. The look on bookstore lady’s face when I showed up for #4 a week after buying #3 was definitely worth it, though!
Oh sorry! I mean the witness trilogy by Steven Erikson. A follow up to malazan. The god is not willing was the first of the trilogy. Definitely a touch different stylistically but I really enjoyed the first one. Its Erikson so it’s a pretty long one so might be like what you’re looking for?
Also, Glenn cook released lies weeping, a new chronicle of the black company. I havnt read it yet, but its on my list. Might be worth checking out if you liked the stuff before!
I just finished Pachinko. I don’t get the hype. Interesting historical perspective regarding Koreans in Japan that I didn’t have. Decent story premise, but really flat writing. I cared enough to finish the book, but overall it was a big “meh” for me.
Working through the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown I’m on the third book Morning Star at the moment.
I was at a local book store and saw Pierce Brown’s book, but they didn’t had the Red Rising in stock atm. Should get to it soon-ish.
I started reading The Enemy by Lee Child. Not my first choice, but a friend gave me all her old books last Christmas so I feel somewhat obligated to read it. It’s easy to read, and it’s thrilling enough to compel me onwards, but the dialogue is vapid and there’s a lot of Clancyisms where the story will focus on over romanticising the army, kplus I think one chapter only existed so the author could use as many homophobic slurs as he knew, which was off-putting.
Every time I see those books I want to start singing “🎶Leeeeee Child, things are gonna get easier.🎵”
Continuing on with my summer reading, I’ve picked up I, Robot (Asimov) and Professor and the Madman (Winchester) from the library.
I also checked out Hatchet (Paulsen). My niece is reading it, figured it’d be fun and quick to join in.
On the listening side, I’ve been going through Disrupting the Game by Reggie Fils-Aime since he reads the audiobook himself. It’s very directed towards the business advice angle, but there’s good biographical and Nintendo history info in there.
Currently working my way through This Inevitable Ruin the 7th book in the DCC series. Really enjoying this series and glad I picked it up.
Also listening to Queens at War the last book in Aliison Weir’s series on English Medieval Queens. Thr series has been a bit hit and miss. Feels at times the Queen being documented isnt always at the forefront, but its a lot of information I never knew.
I’m currently very slowly making my way through The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem. Still in the setup phase about 20% of the way through; looking forward to seeing how it goes.
Last week, read/finished The Faerie Hounds of York by Arden Powell. Heavier on the romance than I normally go for, but the actual plot was intriguing, and the fae were thankfully kept quite alien. Kinda insta-lovey, kinda eye-roll romance trope-y in places, but if you don’t mind that, it might be worth a look.
After the game came out, I also read invincible, and solaris as well after watching the movie. Now I have developed a soft spot for soviet era sci fi.
Nice! Only thing I’ve read of that genre is Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, so this’ll be my second (recommended if you haven’t checked it out yet).
Currently working my way through book 3 of “The Sun Eater” series by Christopher Ruocchio. Enjoying the books so far!
Finished “BuyMort: Smart shopper” and started the third book “BuyMort: Rise of the Windowpuncher”. They’re a nice read, reminds me of the first books in the DCC series. On that note, also reading “a parade of horribles”, the latest DCC book. That one is going to take a long time since I usually only read one chapter of it before going to sleep.
I really liked BuyMort a lot but I do think it loses steam towards the end. It does come to a good conclusion though and it definitely isn’t bad.
I read DCC afterwards but like you I really felt like they were channelling the same energy!
I can also recommend Solo Levelling if you haven’t read that which is in a similar vein again and Beware of Chicken is also a lot of fun but a bit more feel good sort of vibe!
The Idiot on audio and some Christian books on physical.
The Idiot is very good. Better than The Brothers Karamazov I think.
I have not read that one yet, its next on the list, and its going to be very soon since the Idiot is almost done.
