Still reading When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.
Had some vacation, so didn’t get time to read much.
What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Finished all of the BuyMort series. All in all I’d recommend it, great series. I did skip over some of the “ad” texts though, it was a bit too much at times. Still reading the latest dungeon crawler Carl book, but slowly. About 20% in, and haven’t decided if I like this one yet.
Finished The Player of Games by Iain M Banks the other day. Loved it and can’t wait to read more in the series!
I’m reading through You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat as part of the book club I’m in. To be honest I’m not enjoying it that much - the story is all over the place. But it’s fairly short, so I’ll push through and give some feedback during the next meeting.
Funny, I had the opposite reaction. I quit reading Banks after that book! I did appreciate the subplot with the companion bot, but Gurgeh was so unsympathetic that I really just couldn’t enjoy it.
I’m currently reading Consider Plhebas and am almost done! I am liking it and am excited for more in the series — no doubt there will be Damage in The Player of Games
I really liked most of the series, but I didn’t finish three of the later ones. That’s up to my preferences, for example I didn’t like Dune or Children of Time.
“Cibola Burn” by James S.A. Corey, so The Expanse #4. I like the TV series a lot (watched first, before reading the books), I really liked “Leviathan Wakes” and “The Butcher of Anderson Station”, but the second and third volumes were meh. The second one is too similar to the first one and the third one, I don’t know, just didn’t click. “Cibola Burn” is good, finally the themes have changed, the setting has changed (Ilus) and there are new mysteries to uncover (well, I watched the TV series, so the story is kinda spoiled for me, but it’s not like I remember everything).
I’m reading Horror Stories Shocking Tales of Unspeakable Terror, a collection of old gothic horror stories, they’re compelling but there’s a severe lack of diversity, I’m over halfway through and they’ve already spent the big hitters of Stoker, Poe and Shelley.
I’m currently binging Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit by Judith Hermann. As it’s been just released it’s only available in German yet, but if you’re able to read that I highly recommend. It’s about Judith’s own journey towards discovering the story of her grandfather and the traces this man, who was a convinced Nazi, has left in the family. The horrible shadow that drags way into the third generation, that no one seems to want to acknowledge.
The Path Of Daggers In mijn ogen draag ik wolken
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I have done the first 4 books of The Dresden Files now. It is alright and the last book, the summer knight was better than those preceding it but generally not sure how I feel about it so far.
It isn’t bad and I will continue on a few more books to see how it goes. I like the ideas and setting but I really don’t like any of the characters to be honest, particularly Dresden and his excessively ethical approach to everything even to his own detriment is pretty fucking tiring to be honest. Also if I hear the word fuego one more time I might break things…
So to have a break from Dresden I have been listening to He Who Fights Monsters. It is another litrpg book and so far it is like Solo Levelling and Dungeon Crawler Carl had a child with a bit of Beware of Chicken sprinkled in. It isn’t bad so far but as it is right now all of the aforementioned books do what they do a lot better. I’ll see how I feel at the end of this first book but I think it could go either way.
It’s been a while since I’ve read the Dresden books, but IIRC it sticks pretty close to the formula:
There’s a new threat in town.
Dresden investigates.
Dresden gets in over his head and mouths off at the baddies.
Dresden gets the shit kicked out of him.
Dresden refuses to give up. His grit is key to vanquishing the threat even when it looked impossible.
He does fuego a lot in the early books. I think that lessens later on, but IDK how soon it tapers off.
I do enjoy how he upgrades his equipment from story to story.
Finished There Is No Antimemetics Division (audiobook), started Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book 3 of the Children of Time series)
I read There is No Antimemetics Division a few weeks ago
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. I loved how it turned into an SCP flavored love story at the end.
I just paused Steel’s Edge the 4. Part of illona Andrews edge series to start the Odyssey because we want to go to the cinema next week.
Finished the first trilogy of Red Rising, and enjoyed it. I’ll probably come back and read more of the books in the future, but I needed to break it up a little bit I’m on to T. Kingfisher’s Hemlock & Silver
I am on a Dungeon Crawler Call run at the moment. Listening to book 4.
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s pretty much Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (that style of deadpan humor and comedy of manners) with dumb robots and not-so-sane people taking place on post-apocalyptic Earth.
His Children of Time series has been so good. Empathy virus building a post scarcity society - so cool.
Recently finished The Angel of the Crows, liked it a lot!🐦⬛
Now reading Project Hail Mary. Enjoying it well enough.
Next up is Mona Lisa Overdrive
“The Kings of the Wyld” by Nicholas Eames. Only a few chapters in, but I love it.
The premise is: decades after a famous band of heroes has retired, one of them tries to get the band back together again to rescue his daughter. They’re all old and grumpy, and it’s just awesome. Very dry humor.
Very fun read! Reminded me of a combination Terry Pratchett and Joe Abercrombie in a way.
Just finished Fool’s Assassin. I’m not sure how I missed it a decade ago; I love Robin Hobb.
I loved and hated it at the same time. It’s one of those books that feels like half the book is the intro. But…it’s Robin Hobb. I love her writing! And I’ve read 6 of her books starring one of the main characters (and another 6 set in the same world), so there’s a cozy sense of the familiar.
I also just finished Neal Asher’s The Soldier. Based on that, I’ve started reading Gridlinked (which, hindsight, I should have picked up Gridlinked first! But I grabbed The Soldier off the shelf at the library, so c’est la vie…(ou livre?)
