Finished The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King.
It was a nice book. Kind of YA, but fun to read. Pretty much a typical story of good vs bad, where good characters are super good and bad characters are super bad, with very few gray in between. Worth a read if you want a standalone fantasy novel that’s quick to read.
Read The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. My first Scalzi novel and I loved it. A very light and easy to read sci-fi, with Kaiju in them. Going to get other Scalzi novels, may start with Old Man’s War.
Finally got my order my Dresden Files comics / graphic novels. So read the first omnibus, which has the original Welcome to the Jungle and graphic adaptation of first two Dresden Files novels, Storm Front and Fool Mon.
Second omnibus has all original graphic novels novels though, but will get to them later.
Just started Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I have read it before, but it has been quite a while, so re-reading it before starting on the sequel series.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
Covers One Less (Hard Mode), Older than You, Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie, and It takes two Bingo squares
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I just finished Terry Pratchett’s “Feet of Clay” and it was great.
I’m on the 4th book in the James S. A. Corey series The Expanse: Cibola Burn
Decent series. It always has me wanting to read another chapter before bed.
I’m on my first read through of the Witcher. I’ve stalled on the tower of swallows though.
It’s almost cyberpunkesque in how much the world hates it’s inhabitants. Which was interesting when it followed cyberpunk themes of “forget thriving, the goal is to survive this world”.
But, the players are in bigger arenas now, so the world is just a shit place to be. I find myself struggling to care about the politics, or follow who’s who. The early books geralt is so apathetic it didn’t matter which kingdom or who’s the prevailing lord. So I ,like geralt, just didn’t care. Now I’m supposed to, good development for geralt. I just don’t want to suddenly learn the names of 40 kingdoms, their kings, recent history etc…
The prevailing magic seems to be the vow, you’re fucked in a fucked world if you break one. Cool concept, I like it, but it does get watered down because the world wants to grind you down anyway. Breaking a vow is just another excuse for the universe to hurt you. I’ll probably push through this and decide if I want to keep going.
1964 Hugo Winner - Way Station
A man born in 1840, back in the Wisconsin boonies, is chosen to run an intragalactic stopover station for aliens moving about the Orion Arm. Earth is a new expansion, but we’re not invited to the alien fraternity. Yet. Oh, the guy only ages when he leaves his house (aliens converted it to receive travelers) so some are taking notice that the guy is 120+ years old and looks 30.
Has a more modern feel to it than most golden age sci-fi. Little slow up front, but it’s a short book.
Pet Sematary and it’s so creepy.
I have been doing a run on Malazan book of the Fallen series. Currently going through “Dust of Dreams”. It’s really dark and sad right now. Seriously thinking about taking a break from it. Maybe a Pratchett book?
Oooof, I feel that. I started Malazan back at the end of June, currently 2/3rds through Book 7, “Reaper’s Gale”.
It’s far less dark that books 2 and 3, but it’s still sooooo… I don’t know, not as many payoffs as previous books. Feeling some Malazan fatigue with 3 books to go
Hey, I was the guy who recommended Kaiju Preservation Society to you a few months ago! I’m glad you liked it. I personally liked Starter Villain over Old Man’s War but you do you
I’m currently reading Artifact Space by Miles Cameron. I’m 70% in and I like that every time it has a chance to go grim and edgelord the characters all go “ew, why would we do that? We’re civilized.” It does feel poorly edited, with a few misspellings, some odd continuity, and it’s a little hard to follow between certain paragraphs. Overall it’s a good space opera type with a character who learns to let down walls instead of having to put them up
Just finished: We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen. Man, this book sucked. The main character is unlikable, the story is nonsensical, and it quite clearly is just cobbling together ideas from better Sci-fi series. They had to spend a few pages towards the end of the book explaining the plot to the main character which is always a sign you didn’t tell a good story. Final takeaway being lost and confused is not the same thing as being scared of the unknown
bobiverse series by dennis e taylor. fantastic.
How do you like it? I started the first book a couple weeks ago but just couldn’t finish. Sci fi isn’t really my thing, although i did like John Scalzi’s books.
Scalzi’s Kaiju Presevation Society is great, his Starter Villain is definitely in the same vein of light and easy and fun.
I made it most of the way through Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. It holds up pretty well for being almost 100 years old.
I still plan to read Dungeon Crawler Carl next.
I am excited for you, I was hooked on DCC and left feeling so lost when I finished. The audiobooks are worth a listen, it’s more of an auditory cinematic than just an audiobook. I got very used to that being the norm that I’m now struggling with regular narration, same actor doing all voices, no sound effects etc.
I thankfully found the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson shortly after from another post on Lemmy. Not quite as cinematic but loving R.C. Bray’s performance and the series as a whole.
Finished 6th Dungeon Crawler Carl (haven’t started 7th yet) then started Expeditionary Force. Currently on book 16, with 17 having dropped recently, then I’ll cycle back for DCC 7 Faction Wars. Then I’ll be lost again haha.
Yeah, I took a look at his whole bibliography then went with KPS to check out how he writes, will probably be getting most of his books.
Lud-In-The-Mist looks interesting. Is it linked with any of her previous book?
Redshirts was where I started with Scalzi, one day I’ll get to Old Man’s War.
Lud is a one-off. I added it for bingo because a bunch of authors have listed it as a super formative book. I like her style, but it is a bit more dense than I expected going into it initially.
I’m wrapping up Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. Making my way through all of his books currently, it’s been a real treat! I haven’t been this excited to read books since I was a kid. Nice to see other fans around!
I finished Educated by Tara Westover. I really liked this book. It gave me a glimpse into an upbringing that is about as different from mine as I can imagine. If you want to get an idea of what it’s like to grow up in a distrusts-anything-government, survivalist family, I highly recommend.
Now I’ve started Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I’m still early on but I love how this book started. It instantly gripped me and I can’t wait to see how it goes.
JUST finished Project Haily Mary. It’s so good 5/5. Curious to hear your thoughts when you’re done.
Thanks for the info, going to check out Educated.
Loved Project Hail Mary. Enjoy!
Calico by Lee Goldberg
I’m about halfway through City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett. Still finding it an enjoyable read, still mixed on whether the world building is my cup of tea.
My reading list right now is:
- Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa
- Legends and Lattes, by Travis Baldree
- Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
Making very slow progress through each of them, but I’m still just trying to get into the reading habit again.
The Singing Sword, by Jack Whyte. It’s the second book in a historical fiction take on the Arthurian legend.
