What are you reading?

[Faldoe]

Audio book though, it count?

[Dapper Bandit]

Not going to list all the books of late but some recent top picks are:


Very cyberpunk/early Gibson in terms of set up and exposition but boy, this guy creates a world well. Just immensely satisfying and a great follow-up to The Windup Girl.

This book is steamy as duck and clinical at the same time. Absolutely fantastic stuff, Yoko Ogowa is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful and everyone should read her.


I'm not even sure how to describe this one. Magical Realism I suppose? This is a book I would recommend to everyone in the world, Ogowa has such a concise flow, it's almost minimalist in approach. She writes lucid dreams and I love her.


Murukami is always a pleasure to read.



These are good books with some very interesting ideas. Characters are the big problem here and specifically female characters but getting past that they are enjoyable reads and I would recommend if you are looking for a different twist on sci fi, and these are different.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh no I didn't know the water knife was a sequel of some kind! I read it last year and really enjoyed it. I'll have to check out the windup girl now.

[Dapper Bandit]

I'm not sure it was written as a straight sequel but they seem to exist in the same universe, if that makes sense? If you enjoyed Water Knife I think Windup Girl will tick all sorts of boxes, one of my favourite sci fi debuts and it's probably due for a re-read really soon!

[coldbrightsunlight]

OK neat. Glad it's not a sequel so I haven't ruined the plot. Would have read it anyway but that makes me feel less dumb lol.

[BetterOffShred]

Started rereading all the Tolkien stuff since it's been about 13 years, since the last refresh. I plan on finishing with the Silmarillion and Unfinished tales

[Dapper Bandit]

Started rereading all the Tolkien stuff since it's been about 13 years, since the last refresh. I plan on finishing with the Silmarillion and Unfinished tales

I tried to get into Tolkein years back, made it through the first chapter of the Silmarillion and couldn't go any further. Did I start in the wrong place? I think someone once told me to read the Silmarillion last but I honestly can't remember now.

Finished Siddartha yesterday, surprised by how much I liked it. Not enough to do an 8 hour improvised modular synth performance but I still really liked it.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Started rereading all the Tolkien stuff since it's been about 13 years, since the last refresh. I plan on finishing with the Silmarillion and Unfinished tales

I tried to get into Tolkein years back, made it through the first chapter of the Silmarillion and couldn't go any further. Did I start in the wrong place?

Yes!!!!!

The Hobbit - LoTR would be the traditional route. The Silmarillion is dry as a bone history and not a fleshed out story. Interesting if you're into the world but a bad intro for most people.

[decomposing]

The Mind of the Cells - Satprem

The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

I have so many books I want to read still...

[Dapper Bandit]

Started rereading all the Tolkien stuff since it's been about 13 years, since the last refresh. I plan on finishing with the Silmarillion and Unfinished tales

I tried to get into Tolkein years back, made it through the first chapter of the Silmarillion and couldn't go any further. Did I start in the wrong place?

Yes!!!!!

The Hobbit - LoTR would be the traditional route. The Silmarillion is dry as a bone history and not a fleshed out story. Interesting if you're into the world but a bad intro for most people.

Cool, may try the Hobbit at some point down the road then. After that chunk of the Silmarillion I was sat for an hour thinking "Do people actually like this? What am I missing here that so many other people got and couldn't resist reading the rest of this thing?"

[dubkitty]

so i bailed on the two books i was reading. i was enjoying Trainspotting, but i just didn't care about the characters. and about 50 pages into Neurotribes i twigged that i'm just not that interested in autism. right now i have three books lined up: two Colin Wilson novels in a sci-fi/Lovecraftian vein, one of which i've read before and one that's new to me, as namechecked by Mark E. Smith:

"have you been to the English deer park/it's a large type artist ranch/this is where C. Wilson wrote Ritual in the Dark"

and the autobiography of Jorma Kaukonen of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. he's one of my early musical heroes, and has led a pretty extreme life, raised overseas by foreign-service diplomats, into the Airplane while in a long marriage to an abusive wife, through ugly drugs and back to the light.

[jirodreamsofdank]

I'm on the third book of Jo Walton's Small Change trilogy - English detective novel meets alternate history. Good detective fiction but effective, above-average alt history (which might be damning with faint praise).

Farthing, Ha'penny, Half A Crown

[odontophobia]

Reading SAGA again because I was talking about it with a co-worker and lent it to him.

Also reading Rat Queens.

Then back to the Night Angel Trilogy.

[dubkitty]

i tried to read Lord of the Rings back in junior high, but could not get into it at all. and at this point in my life i just don't have time for that many pages...The Hobbit and the Trilogy together are longer than The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich, which IMO has a more interesting story line.

[TraceItalian]

I'm trying to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell at my girlfriend's request. Man this fucker is dense.