[Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

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[Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by !saak (?) » Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:57 am

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So I just finished reading the Three Body Problem by Chinese author Cixin Liu and gosh what a ride. :D
I was initially excited about reading it cuz it delves into the Chinese Cultural Revolution and I hardly knew anything about it and uses scifi as a lens to look at that. On top of that it's a Chinese novel, granted I read the translated (English) version, but it comes from a culture that I don't read many stories from.

As the story built it became bigger and bigger, and it eventually ended up doing what I think sci fi should be doing: present ideas and technologies so big and universe changing that leave you mesmerized for days after finishing the story.

I'm still reeling from the impact, again: what a wild ride. I'm probably going to Christmas gift myself the other two novels in the series cuz I'm dying to find out how it wraps up.

Yesterday I started reading Ancillary Justice. I'm only like 30 pages in but already it offers ideas and characters that are very much out there. Super excited about this one too.

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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Princess Flufflebutt (?) » Sun Dec 03, 2017 10:54 am

Books are for nerds.

I haven't read in a while. Last book I touched was You Shall Know Our Velocity by some person and what I know about the plot is there are two guys doing a round-the-globe trip because they need to spend $32.000
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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Applepie2017 (?) » Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:55 pm

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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:07 pm

I'm almost done with The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. I've got the second book ready to go, but he hasn't finished writing the trilogy yet :gonkity:
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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Auxiliatrix (?) » Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:19 pm

I'm currently delving into the world of "Absurdist Fiction". I've already read Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and right now I'm reading Franz Kafka's The Trial. Not only is there great situational humor in both books, but they add in some pretty interesting deeper themes underneath the absurdism.

I love this genre. :-I
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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Durandal (?) » Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:55 pm

I'm halfway through The Palace Job, which is basically Ocean's 11 reimagined as a D&D campaign. Not too shabby
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Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:07 pm
I'm almost done with The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. I've got the second book ready to go, but he hasn't finished writing the trilogy yet :gonkity:
Heard a lot of good things about this and it's on my shelf. I'll probably tackle it next

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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue May 01, 2018 4:43 pm

I just finished The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco. It was a really good mystery with some great insight into 14th century life. I definitely recommend it if you don't mind reading about monks going on and on about whether Jesus was poor or not :-P

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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Durandal (?) » Wed May 02, 2018 10:26 pm

Just started The Name of the Wind and yep I am totally hooked by Rothfuss' ways of turning a phrase
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
Kote sat in front of the fire and ate his meal mechanically, as if he were simply finding a place inside himself to keep the food.
All the scars were smooth and silver, streaking him like lightning, like lines of gentle remembering. The flare of flame revealed them all briefly, old wounds and new. All the scars were smooth and silver except one.
The fire flickered and died. Sleep met him like a lover in an empty bed.

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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Applepie2017 (?) » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:53 pm

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Re: [Book Thread] Whatcha reading?

Post by Ragnar (?) » Thu Nov 21, 2019 11:05 pm

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky - John Langan

Good and leisurely horror.
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