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Books you are reading. - SilverFang01 - 04-05-2018
So, two weeks ago I decided to scrap my Facebook account and re-invest that time into getting back into the habit of reading books.
Before 2013, I used to read between two and four books per month and plan to build up to that again, hopefully.
Right now I am finishing Cal Newport's Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World which actually was the kick in the pants I needed to finally kill the Facebook hydra.
Feel free to add books you are currently reading to this thread or any recommendations. Me? I read biographies, religious studies, philosophy (Love the ____and Philosophy books), manga, graphic novels, sci-fi, fantasy, science, even romance novels if they are interesting enough.
Can also add audiobooks if that is your preferred way to consume them.
RE: Books you are reading. - ECSNorway - 04-05-2018
Currently been reading through M D Cooper's 'Aeon 14' series, the start of which deals with the trials and tribulations of a nearly-ready-to-depart STL interstellar colony ship. Several volumes later, they eventually do arrive at their destination, sorta. And that's when things -really- get complicated.
RE: Books you are reading. - DHBirr - 04-05-2018
Just started The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet, fifth in the Captain Alatriste series.
For several months, I'd fallen behind on my reading while continuing to buy, so I had a lot of books — more than twelve at one point (or was it more than fifteen?) — waiting to be read. That backlog's gone ... for now.
RE: Books you are reading. - Rev Dark - 04-06-2018
Let's see - in the last two months or so.
Errant Gods by Erik Henry Vick - not bad -
Wildwoods Boys by James Carlos Blake - best novel about a backwoods, murdering, sister diddling thief I will likely read this year.
MJ-12 Shadows by Michael Martinez - neat idea - pretty solid executions -but missing a spark somewhere.
Brothers in Arms - Kareen Abjul Jabber - a great read about the history of the sole black tank brigade in the Second World War.
Jack of Diamonds by Bryce Courtenay - Not his best work - but it is Bryce fuck-mothering Courtenay - always worth a read.
Precinct Siberia - P. J. Ochlan - Hard, ugly, gritty, police drama. Spillaine would have loved it.
For Love of Mother Not by Alan Dean Foster - a book of my youth - still worth a read, but your mileage will vary.
A whack of Destroyer Novels - because Remo and Chiun.
The first four Soul Eater novels by DaCosta - not great, but cheap like the budgie - so I got my money's worth.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare for Damien Lewis - great read - two thumbs way up.
Corpies - Drew Hayes - I you haven't read his Superpowered Series - do yourself a favor and snap up all four.
Super Powereeds Year 4: This series is about as good as the supers genre gets -
Donald Jack - Three cheers for me - revisiting the Bandy Papers - good Canadian fun.
Red Rising - Golden Son, Morning Star - by Pierce Brown - great ideas, great implementation, protagonist is a knob end.
I probably missed a few hear and there.
Oh and Audiobooks during the same time
The Sherlock Holmes Definitive Collection as read by Stephen Fry
The Historical Jesus (12.5) hours by Bart Ehrman
Decisive Battles of World History (18.5 Hours)
The Vikings (18 hours)
The Other side of History - Daily Life (Robert Garland) 25.5 hours - a great series of lectures.
RE: Books you are reading. - ECSNorway - 04-09-2018
Also recently been enjoying the "Fox Meridian" series, by Niall Teasedale. Near-future police procedurals, very cyberpunkish feel to them. A lot of focus on transhumanism, rights and psychology of artificial beings, politics of privatized policing, and terrorism in the age of weaponized memetics. Good stuff.
RE: Books you are reading. - SilverFang01 - 04-09-2018
On audiobook, I am finishing Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
Found it very interesting. The book is about what goes on in the subconscious processes of our brains and how they affect our behavior, sometimes without us being aware of it at all.
Today I am starting The Wolf by Leo Carew
From the summary: Violence and death come to the land under the Northern Sky when two fierce races break their age-old fragile peace and start an all-out war.
RE: Books you are reading. - Disruptor - 04-15-2018
Well, I have went back to some older works that I finally got around to picking up.
The stories by James H. Scmitz collected into 4 volumes:
Telzey Amberdon
TNT: Telzey and Trigger
Trigger & Friends
The Hub: Dangerous Territory
RE: Books you are reading. - Bob Schroeck - 04-16-2018
Oh, the Telzey books were a favorite of mine when I first discovered them in the late 70s/early 80s. They're very Golden Age of SF in many ways, the stories having been written just about at the end of that era. Not that that's bad in any way! And the things Schmitz did with psionics... wow. Some of that has stuck with me all these decades, influencing the way I look at both psi and magic in my own writing.