Book reader community.
I've just started reading The Wager. I'm a sucker for ship based media, and I'm hoping this'll be no exception.
It's my third book of the year after previously reading both A Clash of Kings and How to get rid of a president
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I'm reading The Wager as well!
How are you finding it?
idk I don't have any trouble finding it. It's just there when I open my kindle.
Currently reading Brute Force: cracking the data encryption standard by matt curtin.
Your pick reminds me I really should get into some naval fiction. I used to love it on the screen (Hornblower, Master and Commander, etc), I'm a big fan of it's sci-fi equivalents, I was into sailing as a kid and I am a total sucker for command drama stuff. Frankly, I'm shocked I've never read any naval fiction as far as I can remember.
This is an excellent story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I saw another comment mention it but after you finish this, you must read (or listen to) "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing. The narration was excellent. I borrowed the audiobook from libby and it was such an amazing story!
Currently switching between Prequel by Rachel Maddow and Naked Empire (book 8 of the Sword of Truth series) by Terry Goodkind.
Slightly off topic but can anyone recommend a good android based ereader?
Edit: I mean a device, not an app.
Finishing the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks.
Next up is I think Murtagh by Christopher Paolini.
Ilium by Dan Simmons. Haven’t got to the end yet but already boggled my mind.
Slugging through book 6 of A Practical Guide to Evil. Still have about 4000 pages to get to the end of the series
Just finished The Breach. Poor Jacob
Just starting "The Time Regulation Institute," by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (translated).
Gnomon. A massive disappointment.
Half way through the fourth book in the Shopocalypse Series -
Buy Mort: 30,000 Leagues: How I Merged And Became New Earth Affiliated by Joseph Phelps and Damien Hanson
I just finished reading Leech, by Hiron Ennes. Very strange book, some described as Gothic horror science fiction. Thought provoking, but weird.
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics. I saw it mentioned in one of the threads about the recent apple sauce food poisoning, and it's very interesting (whoever that was, if you are reading it, thank you!).
Currently on the third book of J. D. Kirk's Bob Hoon series
I've never laughed so much at an audiobook in my life.
Imagine if you took something like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and made it really Scottish, extra violent and incredibly sweary. That's Bob Hoon
Female villain - "I'd ask you to join our operation, Mr Hoon, but I know exactly what you'd say"
Hoon - "I'd tell you to shove it up your fish-hole, you badly-aimed batch of ejaculate"
Female villain - "Well ok, I didn't know exactly what you'd say..."
Damn, this sounds exactly like my next book, thanks for recommending it.
Might be easier to read if you're not used to the accent, but the narrator of the audiobook absolutely fuckin nails Hoon's voice
I have never tried to listen to an audiobook. I am just afraid I will get distracted and miss part of it.
That's what the back button's for. But if you're interested in audiobooks at all, I'd suggest starting with a book you've already read that's pretty low stakes. Stephen Fry's narration of Harry Potter is excelent.
If you didn't already read it: O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin Series. He greally goes deep into ships and sailing but the story is still compelling.
Exile
Book 2 in the chronological order of The Legend of Drizzt series
Not sure what happened but I used to knock back 50-80 books a year, now I barely read anymore. I'm trying to get back into it with all the books being on every electronic device so I can read wherever, and I have two physical copies of the books from different releases. Yet I'm still dragging my feet getting through it.
The frustrating thing is once I get into the book I don't want to put it down, but once I stop reading it's hard to start again.
I miss reading.
Incidentally, I was looking at the Kobo readers recently and they look pretty neat!
I bought a cellphone sized e reader, called the moaan inkpalm. It being so small has really helped me get more reading in. There are better ones available now, but it's pretty cheap for what it is. I can pull it out whever i'm waiting for my family somewhere, and pick a book that i'm in the right mood/mental state for.
Sometimes a book just isn't for you, or you need something with more fun and less substance because of all the other demands on your time and attention. I used to plow through difficult books when I had the time. Now that I generally read in 15 minute stretches that's not nearly as easy. It's not a black and white thing.