I'm trying to read as many Terry Pratchett books as I can get my hands on, from old to new. Fun fact: if you like his style of writing, it holds up incredibly well, and there always seems to be a unique sort of social commentary.
And then I have The Road by Cormac McCarthy to feel upbeat about the world with.
It's nice tor read again, I reckon. Way better than anything on TV where I am, and, you know, sometimes you just need a break from vidja games. Shocking, I know.
Reading the Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy at the moment. Not entirely sure how I feel about it, as I'm just about halfway through the first book, but it definitely has potential. Probably won't be better than the Farseer or Tawny Man trilogies, though.
nothing right now, my sister gave me some book on insomnia saying it helped her and she knows mines way worse, but the book looks like stupid hippy crap so eh, probably wont read it
I rend to read a few books at once and jump between them when I feel one starting to bore me. Right now I'm around 900 pages into A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, about 150 pages into Catch 22, and about 70 into Snow Crash. I'm thinking about starting up one of Dawkin's books when I finish Bryson's.
If anyone is even just a little interested in any type of science and aren't especially scientific minded, I would highly recommend A Short History of Nearly Everything. It covers the basics of nearly every scientific field as well as the history that lead to major findings in each, and is extremely easy to read and understand.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Been trying to read up on his books. I like that a lot of the characters pop up in different books. Sean Batemen from Rules of Attraction is Patrick Batemen's brother.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearnes Goodwin. After that, I'm not sure. Maybe more Hemingway or Poe. Kind of in a readers block and can't think of what I'm in the mood for.
Water Sleeps by Glen Cook, part of the Black Company series.
The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland, really good english translation of the old myths, though the more I read, the more I find that the actual history of the Vikings is way cooler than their religion.
I'm neck deep into the Horus Heresy books, currently just finished Tales of Heresy- Wolf at the Front Door, this series is fucking brilliant, i haven't read any other WH40K books, but this series is so gripping, i used to collect the miniatures when i was 11 or 12 and stopped at around 14 or 15, but this universe has always stuck with me, especially with help from the Dawn of War games, but i'm definitely going to stick with the literature for quite some time.
I was reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. I was loving it, but got busy and didn't pick it up for like two weeks. I need to get back into that.
Nemesis by Max Hastings. Fascinating read - it's about the Pacific Theatre of WWII - not the battles necessarily, but what it was like for both sides during that time. It's mostly filled with personal recollections by Japanese and American Soldiers and boy, oh boy does it make for some very unpleasant reading at times. Fascinating, but horrifying at the same time.
I recently started running again, so I picked up Born To Run by Christopher McDougall for some inspiration. It's been highly recommended, and so far it's really good. Might even try out barefoot running some day just for fun.
Just read through Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I was left extremely disappointed as I had quite high hopes for this one after hearing all the praise it's been receiving.
Gonna read The Lord of the Flies by William Goldberg for the first time now. Looking forward to it!
Started reading Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson for the second time. First time, I got like 100 pages in and put it down because it just seemed incredibly boring and literally nothing was going on. If I don't make it through this time, I don't think I ever will. I'm definitely enjoying more than that first time, I think it was because I was expecting a Neuromancer/Count Zero style of book and this one is very different from those ones.
I'm currently polishing off MAO: the untold story by jung chang ( 800 pages of abject misery), How mumbo jumbo conquered the world by Francis Ween, (better than it sounds) and still popping into Ulysees every once in a while ( don't let the reputation fool you, its probably the best work of fiction of the last century)
Been slowly going through Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It's a little bit bitty (each section is only about a page long) but that works for me because my dissertation takes up too much time to do much fiction reading. It's great though, absolutely beautiful in spots.
Other than that, it's an unholy concoction of Foucault, Derrida and Judith Butler, with some Giorgio Agamben as the cherry on top.
"The Last Wish", from the Witcher series. It is seriously good stuff. That and "A Casual Revolution", by Jasper Juul, a book about the recent history of video games and how they have been changing. Not sure about the second one
Gorky Park--good but very dense and it's taken me a week-and-a-half to get through 60 pages. About to pick up Black and White by Kittredge and Kessler. In the mood for some superhero fiction and hear this is a good 'un.
The Book of Jhereg by Steven Brust. I'm on the last story in it, "Teckla". After that.... I'm not sure. Either Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson or Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie.
I recently started running again, so I picked up Born To Run by Christopher McDougall for some inspiration. It's been highly recommended, and so far it's really good. Might even try out barefoot running some day just for fun.
That book is pretty incredible, even though I think it is as much of a ploy for barefoot running as fancy running shoe company ad campaigns are a ploy to sell fancy running shoes.
I'm reading The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's a pretty crazy book. It sort of reminds me of PKD's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It's got a pretty heavy cyber/steampunk vibe, even though it is neither cyberpunk nor steampunk.
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