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Diary of a Drug Addict by Alister Crowley
The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren. It’s decent. Wouldn’t say it’s my favorite yet and I’m halfway through. There’s a lot of talking in rooms for a political action sci-fi series. Pace is a bit slow for my taste.
The Three Body problem by Cixin Liu
I’ve had this one recommended to me recently. How do you find it?
I’m just getting into it. It’s an interesting premise so I’m looking forward to digging deeper.
I just finished it! It really is a great novel. The translation is great and the footnotes are pretty enlightening, considering my lack of deep knowledge on recent Chinese history.
It’s good. If you can find enjoyment in a book that’s more about it’s fascinating premise than it is about it’s characters then it’s especially good.
Same, as I read it I’ve been thinking of it as Chinese Michael Crichton, but overall it’s been very good.
This makes sense to me, I just finished Jurassic Park for the first time a little over a month ago. Lots of similarities, cool premise, I don’t care much for the characters so far.
The Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng
Category theory is awesome!
I’m in the middle of the Wax and Wayne series by Brandon Sanderson, just finished Shadows of Self.
Sanderson’s books are a really fun read, highly recommend them to anyone interested in fantasy.
Let me bring this thread’s intellect down a little by sharing my delight in listening to He Who Fights With Monsters. Absolutely goofy book about a guy who gets sucked into an alternate world full of magic. It’s an homage to RPG games and had me chuckling and feeling wistful.
You might Scott Meyer’s Magic 2.0 series.
The Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Wastelands - Stephen King. It’s kinda nearing the middle of the Dark Tower series and it’s pretty damn good.
Engine Summer by John Crowley. I’m only about 100 pages in, but liking it so far.
Rereading Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, so I can read the new book, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. Been a few moments since I did a full reread.
I have Greg Egan’s Scale and John Shirley’s Stormland next on the tsundoku.
I tried to like it, but I couldn’t concentrate on it, I gave up in the middle of the 2nd book.
A couple, The Institute by Stephen King and Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson. It’s the third of his Kickstarter books and I’m enjoying it so far, but I’ve barely started it.
Endymion by Dan Simmons. Part of the Hyperion Cantos.
Great series. My personal favorite from Simmons is the Ilium/Olympos duology, although Olympos was a bit of a letdown at the end. Simmons is brilliant but he does have a way of setting a lot of things up and occasionally failing to deliver a satisfying climax. Hyperion and Endymion, read as two complete works, do a better job of concluding things.
I distinctly remember reading Ilium when I was like 12 and just being absolutely dumbfounded by the erotic scenes with Helen of Troy. I had never encountered adult content like that in a book and it just blew my horny teenage mind.
Simmons’ fusion of historical literature with robust far future science fiction is chef’s kiss.
I just read Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion for the first time this year. When I got to the end of Hyperion I did something I rarely do. I usually buy all my books used as sort of a “thrill of the hunt” thing. I bought The Fall of Hyperion new… out of rage. I demanded to know what was going to happen next, because without knowing I couldn’t tell if I loved or hated the fucking book! I then read through The Fall of Hyperion as fast as I could manage.
Now I can say, without a doubt, it’s one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. And yet I’m still not sure I am willing to go forward with the Endymion books.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I borrowed it from a friend so long ago I don’t remember who it was. Like… More than 10 years ago. I didn’t expect it to start out so strangely, especially after finishing The Three Body Problem lol. And that one started very strangely!
Snow Crash is on my “to read” list. I keep running into references to it.
It’s a little dated but I’m enjoying it, knowing it was written during a time I’m familiar with
