This was a nice week for book reading. Don’t usually get this much time generally.
Finished The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid. I didn’t like the writing style initially but got used to as I read along. It’s a small book, just a little more than 100 pages. An umm… interesting read.
Got my copy of The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. Really liked the book. It was a fun, light book. There was much less action than I was expecting, after reading the announcement of the book, but that didn’t make book any less enjoyable. Finished the book in two days, which I rarely get to do now.
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher. Book 3 of Dresden Files. I have just started it, but it’s the same Dresden Files. Nothing to say about that.
What have you been reading?
I am currently reading The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett. This was really rough at the start to get into it. I have a hard time with fantasy stories that throw a ton of made up names at me since I have such a hard time remembering “normal” names. But I got over the hump and have started to enjoy it.
Here’s the list of books, recent to oldest, I’ve read since Reddit went down. I decided that instead of purely replacing Reddit, I would use my time better. I haven’t read this much since before high school.
I, Robot-Isaac Asimov The Player of Games-Iain M. Banks The Secret History-Donna Tartt Circe-Madeline Miller Shogun -James Clavell Flowers for Algernon-Daniel Keyes Only Human-Sylvain Neuvel Waking Gods-Sylvain Neuvel Sleeping Giants-Sylvain Neuvel
A lot of people recommend starting the Discworld series with Mort rather than The Colour of Magic (I’m not actually sure the reason, perhaps something to do with growth into the style?) But I hope you enjoy the book, and series, should you continue with it
The first two books are stylistically (and canonically) quite different from the later books. The first two books are more likea sketch shows. There isn’t much of a story besides getting Rincewind in a new predicament.
The humour and especially the characters are also less… Developed. Death for example is quite cruel in the first books.
The first books also mainly make fun of fantasy tropes, while later books use Discworld more as a mirror to explore social issues on our world.