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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
I finally finished Player Piano. It was a good book, but reads a lot more stiff than Vonnegut's other work. Also, seeing the "love of the machine" themes in the book and applying it to the current state of the tech industry really hit home.
I think my next read is going to be Andromeda Nebula (Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale) by Ivan Yefremov. I saw the recommendation under a Soviet-wave playlist on YouTube and decided to give it a spin.
I just finished A City On Mars thanks to some long flights.
As far as pop sci books go, it was great! Around 400 pages of book followed by 30 pages of citations (excluding footer citations) - that is a heck of a ratio for pop sci.
I found that some bits dragged on a lot, especially the part about the laws around the moon, sky, and how they compared to the Antarctic and the deep sea. That isn't to say it was a bad section, maybe just not for me.
I did enjoy the parts about reproduction issues (both physical and ethical) especially.
Overall, I think the book does an excellent job of going over the various challenges that are usually glossed over, providing a little bit of information from any side of the argument that might exist, and trying to treat it all as well as possible. There are a lot of apologies in the book about not being able to see every issue from every lens.
I’m reading “ the Saint of Bright Doors” by Vajra Chandrasekera
Set on a different world, one which has lots of religions and prophets, and some magic? ( not entirely sure to what extent, only a little into it). He is in a support group of children rejected by their religious order.
So far it explores extremism, indoctrination, de-radicalization, traumatic upbringing.