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Beyond Command and Control by John Seddon, my second time though and a good book about systems and how systems dictate human behavior and how to alter them instead of beating people up to get results.
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, a series of short stories. I'm on the third story in the book now and I've loved each one of them. Compelling hook, well written. They have all gotten me obsessively thinking about the world he's created.
My 6 favorite authors either haven't published in a long time, or they've begun publishing early works that weren't good enough to get published when they started out. 2 of my other favs have died. This has pushed me out of my comfort zone and delved into Steven Fry's Mythos series... and I rather like it. Oh, and if anyone sees Patrick Rothfuss around, please smack him upside the back of his head.
Stephen Fry's voice acting on the audio book of Mythos is phenomenal as well
Tanith Lee. 'Night's Master.' A Demon Prince spends his nights tormenting and/or seducing humanity,
One of the Wheel of Time books.
"The Peacock And The Sparrow," by I.S. Berry. It's a spy novel the same way 'Catch-22' is a war story. The narrator is a burnt out CIA agent trying to convince himself and the world he isn't a loser.
"The Crook Manifesto" by Colson Whitehead. Stand alone follow up to 'The Harlem Shuffle.' It's like going into a local bar on Malcolm X Blvd. and listening to the oldtimers talk about back in the day. A semi-retired fence goes to a crooked White cop to get tickets to a Jackson 5 concert for his teenage daughter. High jinks and hilarity ensue.
Reading Stalking Darkness, by Lynn Flewelling. 2nd book of the Nightrunner series. Up next is the rest of the series! :P This is my 2nd read through. After that, I'm planning to re-reading a few Mercedes Lackey books before finally reading the newest one. Might just hop into the newest one if I get impatient though.
I just finished Dune: Messiah and am gonna read a short monograph about Commodore Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie before cracking into Hornblower: Flying Colours
Wouldn't consider myself a bookworm but
Finished recently:
Reading currently:
And I think the next one is gona be Sci-Fi. Maybe I will check out The Wandering Earth from Liu Cixin. But I am open for recommendations.
Currently reading The Wandering Inn, a fantasy web serial.
It's really hard to communicate just how good it is, because the synopsis sounds very much like a million really bad books.
It's set in a fantasy universe where RPG things like levels and classes and skills are all real... And humans from Earth start appearing in this world for reasons unknown.
Told you it sounds like a bunch of other (bad) books. I promise it's great though. The writing goes hard. Characters are distinct and feel fleshed out, and the author isn't afraid to kill off a character you like - or to give you sympathy for the devil.
It's a long series, but it's never been dull. And if you don't believe me (fair, you hardly know me), it was also the highest-grossing serial on Patreon for long time. I still pay my monthly due just to get access to the latest chapter a few days early.
The whole thing is available online for free (barring the latest chapter delayed for a few days).
Start here. Have fun!
After a long time of no reading, I started reading on the beach The Handbook of Epictetus. I bought it thanks to the recommendation of PewDiePie of all people in the video he did after losing the first spot in YouTube rankings
Yumi & The Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, and I'm also re-reading The Stand by Stephen King.
Do CompTIA study guides count too?
Misery. My second time reading it.
Before two years ago it was the only Stephen King book I’d ever read. I read it when I was a teenager, then never read any other King.
A couple years ago a friend talked up the Dark Tower series, but listed me off some other books to read beforehand as the books tended to loop in with each other.
I decided I’d just give myself the fan-since-way-back experience and read all of King’s books in order of publication. There’s like 50+!
So far I’ve read:
I love how Misery’s about an author. I bet King started with the image of himself with broken legs, looking out at the barn. The presence of the sadistic jailor, the big evil nurse woman acting as his editor. I bet that image is where the whole notion of the book began.
How to make a setup that enables that scene to exist?
No Game No Life Volume 4
The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow
I'm currently reading "tremendous" by Joey Diaz and "a promised Land' by Barack Obama
Currently reading the third Percy Jackson book right now
Wish the best
Fairytale by Stephen King
I just finished Tatouine by Jean-Christophe Réhel.
I LOVED this book. It was written from the first person POV and tons of pop culture references but I was really sucked in and enjoyed the read.
I just finished the Eddie Flynn series by Steve Cavanagh and would highly recommend it for anyone looking for an easy but captivating read. It’s kinda like watching a decent Hollywood action thriller. You have to suspend belief for a large part but it’s kinda fun and the characters are likeable.
This isn’t a spoiler, it’s on the blurb, but Eddie Flynn is a con man turned lawyer and I really enjoy antihero protagonists, particularly in the crime/thriller genre. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know!
Currently reading The Golem of Hollywood, by Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman, I'm half through it and enjoy it very much.
Nothing on the shelf yet (except Holly by Stephen King but I think I will read one or two novel before the release). I'll probably look on the lemmyverse for suggestions.
Currently re-reading Matter by Iain M. Banks. The Culture books just get better and better as they go on.
Currently reading Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications by Abraham et al. Basically, how do you do geometry and calculus on surfaces or objects that are enough like a surface?
For STEM nerds: this book discusses manifolds in infinite dimensional spaces as well as finite dimensions. I believe there is a fluid dynamics application in the book that requires the infinite dimensional theory. There are far simpler books to learn this material if you just need to speedrun into calculations, but I really want the "full story".