What are you reading?

[goroth]

I've started reading Iain M Banks culture series, which I'm enjoying but I do miss the harder sci fi elements.

[coldbrightsunlight]

The culture series is high on my list of books to buy next.

[phantasmagorovich]

I loved pt.1 (Consider Phlebas?) but from then on it quickly lost it's fascination for me. I love his non SF stuff though. House of Wasps (?) I devoured.

[morange]

The Wasp Factory, I think. Haven't read any of his non sci-fi yet, though.

Got this in the mail not long ago. The long awaited 3rd edition of The Art of Electronics:

[cloudscapes]

Culture series is on my list.

Already finishing up Proxima (stephen baxter). That awkward moment where it takes a lot of effort to finish because the characters aren't very interesting at all, but the premises/concepts are. Unsure if I want to move on to the sequel (which is supposedly very good) after this. I can handle only so many 1-dimensional characters at any time.

Any of you "read" audiobooks? I do a lot. My job often requires me to work for hours with little concentration, so I like to kill two birds with one stone. Some narrators are pretty bring, but others are absolutely fantastic!

[phantasmagorovich]

Culture series is on my list.



Any of you "read" audiobooks? I do a lot. My job often requires me to work for hours with little concentration, so I like to kill two birds with one stone. Some narrators are pretty bring, but others are absolutely fantastic!

Mostly, actually. I have an audible membership for at least 7 years, probably more.
Currently in the middle of The Prince of Nothing, "The Warrior Prophet". I'm enjoying it, but it's a little hard to follow. The timing is a little off in my opinion. Lengthy descriptions and introspections often hide important plot points. Makes it pretty hard as an audiobook. But if I get in the beat with it it's a good series. And I like the middle eastern setting.

[oscillateur]

Any of you "read" audiobooks? I do a lot. My job often requires me to work for hours with little concentration, so I like to kill two birds with one stone. Some narrators are pretty bring, but others are absolutely fantastic!

I've got a friend who does that a lot and loves it. But he's a concept artist and can work efficiently while doing that most of the time.
I'm mostly doing programming and there's no way I can listen to an audiobook while doing anything productive. My work needs the same parts of my brain, sadly .

[cloudscapes]

I've got a friend who does that a lot and loves it. But he's a concept artist and can work efficiently while doing that most of the time.
I'm mostly doing programming and there's no way I can listen to an audiobook while doing anything productive. My work needs the same parts of my brain, sadly .

Yep, that's my experience as well. I'm an artist, usually it means I can be both job-artful and listen to/be able to imagine the stuff narrated. Probably like your concept artist. Must be a visual-brain kind of neural thing. But if I have a task that requires me to do writing/reading, or even coding in the case of my personal hobbies, my brain just shuts down if I have an audiobook playing. Gotta turn that shit off in those cases

[cloudscapes]

As you say, probably something to do with parts of the brain.

[GardenoftheDead]

Starting the Malazan Book of the Fallen

[DrMabuse]

I'm a little over halfway through Wanderer by Sterling Hayden. You may remember him as the Captain McCluskey in The Godfather, or General Ripper from Dr Strangelove, but he was also a pretty good writer. The book is part memoir, part travelogue, and all a search for a meaningful life. It's a rare Hollywood memoir that's enjoyable even if you don't know who he is.

Oh, and he was also Johnny Guitar...

[goroth]

Starting the Malazan Book of the Fallen

Wow, I've never heard of this series or world or author. Wikipedia has me intrigued - please post again when you can conclude if it's or not!

[Errant Tiger]

Currently reading Some of the Best from Tor.com.

http://www.tor.com/2015/01/06/some-of-the-best-from-torcom-2014-is-free-to-download-now/

Generally high quality selection of authors, more diverse than most anthologies. And utterly free, which goes a long way these days.

A really great palate cleanser after finally finishing Heart of Darkness, something like 20 years after it was first assigned to me.

[UglyCasanova]

I've been reading Emily Dickinson for the last couple of days. Non stop. So depressing. Send help.

[phantasmagorovich]

Non stop. So depressing. Send help.

That sounds like a message modern day Pippi Longstockings would find in a bottle.