Last week I finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, and I am currently working on the fourth book in the Chequey Series by Daniel O’Malley, Royal Gambit.

The Chequey Series started with The Rook, and I’ve been reading every book as it comes out. I enjoy the whole series, but it can be controversial because not everybody agrees with its structure, as each book doesn’t directly follow the characters of the one before, but instead tells another story with different characters who interact in the same world. They slightly overlap at some point.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately??

With regards to Bingo, I’m provisionally planning to use When the Moon Hits Your Eye for the square New Release and Royal Gambit for the square Political, but they may drop off or be changed as time goes on.

For details on the c/Books bingo challenge that just restarted for the year, you can checkout the initial Book Bingo, and its Recommendation Post. Links are also present in our community sidebar.

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Wow this is an unreal listen…

It is about the madness that is the special forces particularly the ones stationed at Fort Bragg.

The first chapter is about how two Special Forces guys took their families to Disney World. They spend the trip snorting coke, dropping Molly and shoving speedballs (coke and Herion) up their asses.

When they got back, the wives went shopping and left thier children with the fathers.

One of them fathers (SF guys) got uber paranoid and became convinced there were listening and tracking devices in the car, so he began to dissemble the car in the driveway. The two starting fighting and things escalated and one shot the other 7 times.

The shooting was ruled self defense and by ruled I mean swept under the rug.

The story gets more intense and delves into the GWOT and the madness that caused globally and the role that the Delta Force and SF played in that.

It lays out the insanity of afghanistan, Iraq, the Arab spring and all the fucked up shit that we caused.

It lays out the culture and world of the SF world..

It is an intense read/listen.