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submitted 3 weeks ago by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world

Still reading The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore. First book of The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and The Legend of Drizzt / Forgotten Realms series (publication order).

Book is pretty fast paced and full of action. Really enjoying it.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?


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[-] Harrk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I just finished listening to We Are Legion (We Are Bob). It was a fun one to listen to and easy to follow even whilst working which meant I blitzed through it.

Now I’ve gotta wait almost a month for my next credit :( Not sure what I’ll try next though, I don’t usually bother with sci-fi but I’ve been on the lookout for something after finishing The Three-Body Problem trilogy. Nothing is really hitting the mark currently.

[-] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The prose is beautiful and mesmerizing. It forces me to read it at the speed of speech, to let it flow. I'm a sucker for long and winding sentences (when they're done well), and this doesn't disappoint.

It's also quite disgusting, just as everyone says about it. If you can't handle brutal senseless violence, don't pick this up. It's pretty interesting to see the racism/xenophobia of today reflected in American history (1850-ish). It reminds me of the Dark Forest theory from Three Body Problem: these guys go around killing not just out of a love of violence, but because it's the only guaranteed way to come out on top. If you aren't the killer, someone else will be. Capitalism and greed work like this too.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just finished the telling, by le guin. With that I finish the novels in the hainish cycle. I’m not sure why but I never quite got into the flow with the telling, though I do think it was good. Usually when that happens to me it’ll only be a part of the book, but for this it was most of it. I ought to give it another go at some point . Probably just the influence of life’s going one on my mood and my adhd.

Next will be four ways to forgiveness and then I’ll start Earthsea

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Currently reading Venomous Lumpsucker and enjoying the hell out of it. It's ~350pgs of snark sniping at our ecological apathy and "market based solutions" to the problem. It's so on point it hurts sometimes: Imagine if Wall St financialized species extinction so that the invisible hand of the market could solve the problem, but the solutions all end up being fraud and fraud derivatives.

Recently finished James S.A. Corey's new Captive's War books The Mercy of Gods and the novella Livesuit. Both good, though Livesuit was the more engaging. Looking forward to more in the series when main events kick off on the human side.

Finally read Blindsight last month after seeing it endlessly recommended over the last few years. It's good, definitely worth the read, but I enjoyed Freeze-Frame Revolution and the Sunflowers short stories a bit more. I think I'd have been more impressed with Blindsight if I read it back when it was released, I feel like the shocking big idea has diffused into other works over the last decade and a half so it's not quite as arresting now as it would have been then.

Read Linda Nagata's Pacific Storm as a palate cleanser between Blindsight and the Captive's War books. This one was interesting, Nagata writes a good near future thriller and I'll probably recommend it to family members who are into those sorts of things.

Read the anthology Shine in an afternoon at some point as well - while I appreciate the optimism it feels forced at this point. It was published just over a decade ago now and it feels distinctly out of place in the current timeline.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago

Am I the only one irked by the improper grammar on this weekly post going back months? How has it not been corrected yet? In a community full of readers.

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