What are you reading?

[TheGITM]

Getting ready to start 'The Midnight Library' by Matt Haig.

Should be a good read.

[Jeff Scott]

Great book; it dispels a lot on misinformation about the artists discussed in it, in the same way as the book I recently read about Harvey Ellis does.

[Gunny]

It took me nearly 23 years to want to read them but W.E.B Griffin's series "The Corps" After serving in the Marines for 20 years, I am only now willing to watch certain movies and read certain books. 10 books and I am enjoying them.

[Gordon Currie]

Just finished Dark Forest by Cixin Liu. Now working on Death's End, the final in a trilogy that began with The Three Body Problem.

Devastating, mind-blowing and poignant.
I never thought a book was capable of bringing me to tears over the concept of an ant on a gravestone.

I also binged the Chinese and Netflix TV series adaptations.

Chinese: faithful, overly long in spots, captures the existential dread of the books.
Netflix: mostly watchable, but I would primarily recommend it to people who don't enjoy reading.

[bfm612]

Originally Posted by Gordon Currie

Just finished Dark Forest by Cixin Liu. Now working on Death's End, the final in a trilogy that began with The Three Body Problem....

I'm so jealous you're reading this for the first time. I found that trilogy to be just mindblowing, and really set the bar for any other scifi I'll be reading afterwards.

[Gordon Currie]

Originally Posted by bfm612

I'm so jealous you're reading this for the first time. I found that trilogy to be just mindblowing, and really set the bar for any other scifi I'll be reading afterwards.

I've read many reviews from people saying that the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy ruined sci-fi for them for awhile. I completely understand now!

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Gordon Currie

Just finished Dark Forest by Cixin Liu. Now working on Death's End, the final in a trilogy that began with The Three Body Problem.

Devastating, mind-blowing and poignant.

I never thought a book was capable of bringing me to tears over the concept of an ant on a gravestone.

I also binged the Chinese and Netflix TV series adaptations.

Chinese: faithful, overly long in spots, captures the existential dread of the books.

Netflix: mostly watchable, but I would primarily recommend it to people who don't enjoy reading.

Originally Posted by bfm612

I'm so jealous you're reading this for the first time. I found that trilogy to be just mindblowing, and really set the bar for any other scifi I'll be reading afterwards.

We’re currently watching the Netflix series on my younger son’s recommendation. He’s read the books, and I will be doing so too, based on what I’ve seen so far.

Now, back to Shift, the second of Hugh Howey’s Silo series.

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[dhodgeh]

With the recent airing of Shogun on FX, I decided to give the book a read. A long, but enjoyable tale.

After Shogun, I decided to tackle the entire Asian Saga by James Clavell.

I'm currently on the third book, Gai-Jin.

The books are great, but my goodness, they are long and detailed. Makes The Lord Of The Rings look easy.......

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[TheGITM]

About to dive into The Midnight Library... after staring it on the night stand for several weeks...

[Bob Womack]

Written by a wartime colleague. This my bedside re-read.

Bob

[Joe Beamish]

Revolutionary Road, a 1960-ish novel by Richard Yates. Very funny, and very depressing. And perhaps the first instance of an author capturing the arbitrary, dead-end office job of the Office Space sort, well before Don DeLillo and others did it.

A war between funny and depressing. I’ve read Yates before, so I’m pretty sure depressing will win in the end.

[random works]

just finished Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes.

I have Guns,Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond and have read only the first bit.It won a Pulitzer which delves into history's hidden dimensions, or so the back cover claims.

[GCWaters]

Originally Posted by Joe Beamish

Revolutionary Road, a 1960-ish novel by Richard Yates. Very funny, and very depressing. And perhaps the first instance of an author capturing the arbitrary, dead-end office job of the Office Space sort, well before Don DeLillo and others did it.

A war between funny and depressing. I’ve read Yates before, so I’m pretty sure depressing will win in the end.

For me, depressing definitely won…

[frankmcr]

Originally Posted by random works

just finished Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes.

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Congratulations! I struggled though it once, long ago, I don't remember why. The wikipedia article has a great quote from the author himself, disdaining the idea of writing as entertainment -

When a man comes to my time of life and has his bread to make, and very little time to spare, is it likely that he will spend almost the whole of his yearly vacation in writing a story just to amuse people? I think not. At any rate, I wouldn't do so myself.

That said, it gives a much better insight into what people thought back then (or thought they ought to think) than any agenda-fitting academic analysis.
That said

[Tahitijack]

THE WIDE WIDE SEA

Essentially the story of Capt. James Cook's third and final voyage. I thought I knew about it. Apparently not. A few months ago, I read the Wager, this is better written. Thankfully the storyline is not judgmental in the telling. All voices are given equal opportunity to have their say. Best non-fiction I've read in quite a while.

Endless Summer

A collection of short stories by the queen of summer beach books, Elen Hilderbrand. Each story relates to other full novels by Elen as either as background and character development or some other chapters that could not be included in a previous book. Ironically the final summer novel by Elen, Swan Song, is due out soon and she will move on with her life as an influencer of books by other writers or in some other role other than the regimen of a writer that can be counted on to publish each spring. In other words, she is tired of the structure and pressure of always holding herself to the highest standards her readers have come to expect with the clock ticking each day, week and month.