What Book are You Reading Now?

[jrgold]

Just finished the third book of the red rising series by Pierce Brown. Great example of sci-fi where sci-fi is the background as opposed to the focus. The story is more about the class struggle between the blue collar and the ruling elite. It's not a soft read, very war focused.


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[turbodog]

Finished: guns, germs, and steel
Currently: the death of expertise

 

[ledbetter]

Finished: guns, germs, and steel
Currently: the death of expertise

Congrats! Guns, germs, and steel is awesome but not an easy read. If you liked the topic, you might also like "Against the Grain" by James Scott. Informative and enjoyable.

 

[5S8Zh5]

Book two (of 20) of his Scot Harvath series.

 

[5S8Zh5]

His first book. Timely in that Memorial day is tomorrow.

 

[jrgold]

Book two (of 20) of his Scot Harvath series.

is that book in the same genre as Dune?


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[5S8Zh5]

Almost done with The Terminal List (James Reece #1), Jack Carr 2018.

 

[5S8Zh5]

Put down White Fang, which I started earlier today, and started Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy #3), Michael Connelly 2020, which just arrived today.

 

[StarHalo]

is that book in the same genre as Dune?

If you're wanting legendary sci-fi, look to Ted Chiang's Exhalation if you didn't already read it last year when it blew up; it's a collection of shorter stories, but they're of that caliber where the storytelling is so strong that it transcends genre, this one appears on plenty of non-sci-fi fans' lists..

 

[5S8Zh5]

Ted Chiang's Exhalation[QUOTE]

^ A great read. He wrote Story of Your Life, which the Amy Adams movie Arrival (2016) was based.

from that story:

Mom, can I ask you something?

Sure sweetie, go ahead.

Can I be, um, honored?

What do you mean?

At school Sharon said she got to be honored.

Really? Did she tell you what for?

It was when her big sister got married. She said only one person could be, um, honored, and she was it.

Ah, I see. You mean Sharon was maid of honor?

Yeah, that's it. Can I be made of honor?

 

[jrgold]

If you're wanting legendary sci-fi, look to Ted Chiang's Exhalation if you didn't already read it last year when it blew up; it's a collection of shorter stories, but they're of that caliber where the storytelling is so strong that it transcends genre, this one appears on plenty of non-sci-fi fans' lists..

i'm reading jemisin's "the fifth season" now, will put that on the list next, thank you


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[5S8Zh5]

Finished
Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee #2), Tony Hillerman 1973 &
The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee #1), Tony Hillerman 1970

Started Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee #3), Tony Hillerman 1978.

 

[raggie33]

curius goerge goes to rehab

 

[5S8Zh5]

Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver 1990.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

One on how not to end my sentences is a preposition. :nana:

 

[5S8Zh5]

Hour Game (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell #2), David Baldacci 2004.

 

[Monocrom]

"The Boy Captives."

By: Clinton L. Smith

Non-fiction. Two young boys get kidnapped by Indians during the years of the settling of the Wild West in America. Indoctrinated into Comanche, and Apache tribes (with one brother sold to Geronimo). The only two brothers known to have endured captivity, and made it back alive.

If you enjoy your non-fiction with a politically correct slant, this is NOT the book for you. If you want your non-fiction to tell it like it is, with no sugar-coating of reality; this is the book for you.

What struck me was the sheer lack of any caring for human life. Human life is precious? Oh heck no! Absolutely worthless back then, in that setting. People getting murdered for their horse or just for fun?.... Common thing for the Author. About as common as the Sun rising in the morning.

 

[jrgold]

finished the Stormlight Archives by Sanderson so naturally reading Mistborn now. I really like how simple his writing style is, but character development is complex


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[turbodog]

Cult Of Trump.

 

[Folgore202]

Articles on the post-COVID real estate market in the Mediterantean, because I have to write an investment strategy into this property in Spain and I'm a bit overdue...
But before that, I was reading Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday; that's a pretty fascinating, if naive, insight in what the people who grew in the Austro-Hungarian Empire felt and thought after the country fell apart and was divided between all of the countries of Central and Southern Europe...