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[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Revan from the Star Wars Legends series.

[-] tyrefyre@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Just started “Yumi and The Nightmare Painter”

[-] GeoGio7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Perdito station by China Meiville(hope I spelled it right) I just started a week ago and have only been able to read a bit because of time constraints but so far I'm pretty intrigued.

[-] Prinny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] tejrik@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan.

The first two books flew by. Things are changing a bit. I'm still having fun but Im going to take a WoT breather after this one.

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[-] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Do audiobooks count? I'm on chapter 27 of The Stand with about 38 hours to go. It's been quite the experience in this post-Covid world.

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[-] Jogging_Baboon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Book 4 of the Wheel of Time (about half way through). Series has been something I've started on and off for 20 years, but picked up the first book after my Dad died a couple of months back and finding it a lot easier to stick with it this time around.

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[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 3 points 1 year ago

Trudi Canavan - The Ambassador's Mission

Loved the first trilogy, only recently found out there's a second.

[-] Sockks@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brando Sando

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[-] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Everything is f*cked.

[-] tram1@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Call to Arms, by Lu Xun

It's a short story collection. I'm actually at the beginning, I've only read two stories so far. Kong Yiji is really good!!

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[-] selfreferentialname@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just finished Ten Days that Shook the World. I really enjoyed it. It's one thing to read history from a large-scale top down perspective, another to see how a revolution was actually conducted on a minute by minute street by street basis. Looking for the next thing to read now

[-] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

"Uncle Tom's Cabin". So far very powerful writing. Just finished reading "Tuesday's with Morrie" which is fantastic.

[-] provomeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I'm halfway through the first Witcher book. After being disappointed with the Netflix show, I had to read the original source. I'm enjoying it so far. My goal is to read them all and play the games afterwards.

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[-] NotNKVD@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Catch-22. The classic itself

[-] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle and The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić. I always go over two books at the same time where one has heavier material (philosophy/history) and the other lighter that I can read when I'm tired.

[-] unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just started reading Wool by Hugh Howey. I finished the first season of Silo and didn't want to wait a year to get more of the story. The book has been great so far. It seems like the show followed the book pretty well with a few changes.

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[-] WackyTabbacy42069@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

A couple, The Institute by Stephen King and Cosmos by Carl Sagan

[-] lugal@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

"The Dawn of Everything"

It's a thick one but it's worth it because it gives you a whole different view on history

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros.

Seeing Like A State by James C Scott.

[-] Embargo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The Wastelands - Stephen King. It's kinda nearing the middle of the Dark Tower series and it's pretty damn good.

[-] chtk@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. I'm on page 30 of 160.

Also procrastinating on these:

  • Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
  • A Manual for Creating Atheists - Peter Boghossian
[-] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Wheel of Time

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

Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno and Postmodernism by Frederick Jameson. Just finished Lacan’s lectures on the 4 fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and understood about 10%. I’m playing catch-up with the serious people from the last century.

[-] Zyansheep@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng

Category theory is awesome!

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson. It’s the third of his Kickstarter books and I’m enjoying it so far, but I’ve barely started it.

[-] Dave_r@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Consider Phlebas

[-] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Endymion by Dan Simmons. Part of the Hyperion Cantos.

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[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Blood Meridian by Cormac Mcarthy. Book is outright brutal but written in such a compelling way you can't help be want more. Fantastic writer.

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Escape from Billings Mall, by Chuck Tingle. It's a choose your own adventure book!

[-] buco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård. Only read the first couple of chapters yet but I'm enjoying it so far.

[-] readwallah@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Currently reading Coda vol. 1 right now. Liking the main character particularly his pentacorn.

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