Hey Beehaw, whatcha reading right now?

    • IAmNoJedi@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      I read this so many times that my hardback copy started breaking. You know how the edges of the outer cover about 2/3 of the way down start getting fuzzy from being held when you’ve taken off the dust jacket? Almost fuzzy enough to make into a rope for escaping from a tower.

  • owl@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    The Trouble With Peace, by Joe Abercrombie. Glad to be in a mood where I enjoy his cheerful cynicism again. Curious to see if any good deed in the whole long tale (this is book 7, depending on how you count) will remain unpunished though.

    • Ninefingers@lemmy.one
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      2 years ago

      Can never go wrong with some TFL! I’m on my second readthrough (actually audio, because Steven Pacey) now because of the BSC movie adaptation hype.

  • altz3r0@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.

    Gibson is tough to get into, personally, but his stories are very cool!

  • Ninefingers@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    I finally managed to read through Gardens of the Moon recently which I really liked, so now I’m on to Deadhouse Gates.

  • IndeterminateName@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Currently working my way through the Three Body Problem series. They are very good but I’m not sure how much I’m enjoying them, they are pretty bleak in places.

    • GooseDwarf@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I listened to the first two on audio book. I’m in the same boat as you, where I thought they were good, and pretty thought provoking, but very bleak, and almost propagandistic, I can’t really explain it though

  • scoobford@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    The Murderbot Diaries.

    I’ve been enjoying it, it has a surprising amount of heart for a series about an emotionally damaged not-robot.

    • EntropicalVacation@midwest.social
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      2 years ago

      I’ve reread the series more than once, and I hardly ever reread books—I just can’t get enough of Murderbot! I’m anxiously awaiting the new release, System Collapse, due out later this year.

    • IndeterminateName@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I was put off by the pricing on these. Full price for novella length. I really enjoyed the first one, I’ll grab the rest if they go on sale

  • DJDarren@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    My current read is Abarat by Clive Barker.

    I’d not heard of it until last week, when folks on r/books were singing its praises in a thread, so figured I’d give it a shot. Yeah, it’s enjoyable. Definitely aimed squarely at the middle of the YA crowd, but it’s an easy read at a time when my brain isn’t letting me really get into any books.

    • Frenchpress_Hellyes@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Barker has a fascinating imagination. I finished Coldheart canyon recently. I almost walked away repulsed many times but there was good story under all his signature flair. After Imajica I will try to read anything he writes.

    • Silence@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I finished A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford, feel like it was an interesting snapshot of the life and mannerisms of rich European nobility ~WW1, but Bedford was part of that group and doesn’t seem to realize her intensely spoiled characters might not be so sympathetic to people outside of it. I read A Compass Error, the sequel, first, which includes a lengthy chapter summarizing the plot of A Favourite of the Gods.

      Also finished Translation State by Ann Leckie - if I could go back in time I’d DNF’d this at ~75% I would, I had a really great time with the first part but did not think the ending was well thought out and irritated me. This is the newest book in her Radch series but they seem to be advertising it as a standalone.

      Also reading Dare to Go A-Hunting by Andre Norton, Palimpsest by Catherynne M Valente, and End of Watch by Stephen King.

  • HooGoesThere@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Not bad so far. I just finished The Dark Tower series (loved it) so it is definitely an adjustment.

  • GreyShuck@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    My ‘big read’ this year is Finnegans Wake - which I am (or have been) reading week by week along with the TrueLit sub on reddit. It would be a profoundly different experience to read it without the analysis and discussion going on there, so that is something…

    Otherwise, I am reading The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, which is engaging and entertaining, as was her The Hollow Places which I read immediately before. I am also dipping into a collection of the Para Handy tales by Neil Munro, which are a cosy - if stereotypical and patronising - glimpse into another time and pace of life.

    I have just returned from a couple of weeks away during which I finished an anthology of Clarke Ashton Smith short fantasy tales (all about the atmosphere: story and worldbuilding are very much secondary and character scarcely features); Haldor Laxness’s The Atom Station (a sparse look at the clash of modern - written in 1948 - and traditional Icelandic values); and Blackwood’s The Willows (an extrapolation of the original idea of “panic” - as several of this other tales are).