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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.
David Foster Wallace’s essay collections. I’m absolutely enjoying the writing, the informative footnotes, and the high number of fairly obscure terms/expressions. Some of the essays, like “Authority and American Usage”, seem to be flawed - apparently, DFW didn’t get everything right about the more complicated topics he wrote about. Many of them are still great, though.
I've only finished one book in the past two weeks. Oof.
The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven. A fantastic first contact story. Its a little dated but what a phenomenal book. Highly recommend.
I started and gave up on Hammers Slammers by David Drake. I was expecting military scifi story based on tanks but it was a disjointed short story collection. Not a fan and gave up at ~20%
I've been listening to Histories by Herodotus for the past few weeks and i've nearly finished it. Listened to a lot while painting over the weekend. I really enjoyed it for the most part. Some is very dry or not very interesting and its often confusing when he moves on to a tangential topic for a while but ive read so much of it through other history or historical fiction that reading it first hand and getting the complete book is nice. I love the "well i dont think it holds much water but this is what ive been told...". Makes me laugh every time.
EDIT: Just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller jr. Great book, i read it for the first time years ago and found it mostly dry and a bit boring, espcially after the first section. This time i know more about Catholicism and i'm a less virulent atheist and got much more out of the book.
Hey, you're doing better for me! I've been working on the same couple of books for .... months?
I started a re-read of the Malazan Book of the Fallen recently (10 main series books only). Finished the third a couple of nights ago. I remember them being heavy, but oof, the weight.
I'm spacing out the books by reading stories from "100 Great Short Stories" edited by James Daley. This is a chronologically-ordered anthology of some really good shorts, covering the years of 1705-1923.