Literature

Currently reading Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy really fun reads though it got weird in some places

Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.

Gibson is tough to get into, personally, but his stories are very cool!

The eyes of the dragon by Stephen King

Black House, by Stephen King and Peter Straub

The Murderbot Diaries.

I've been enjoying it, it has a surprising amount of heart for a series about an emotionally damaged not-robot.

I finally managed to read through Gardens of the Moon recently which I really liked, so now I'm on to Deadhouse Gates.

Currently reading "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley. Next up Isaac Asimov's Foundation.

My current read is Abarat by Clive Barker.

I'd not heard of it until last week, when folks on r/books were singing its praises in a thread, so figured I'd give it a shot. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Definitely aimed squarely at the middle of the YA crowd, but it's an easy read at a time when my brain isn't letting me really get into any books.

Finally finished with Pattern Recognition, William Gibson. It was... nice, it definitely felt like Gibson was uncomfortable writing in the present tense.

Next up is a Brazillian book, As águas-vivas não sabem de si by Aline Valek

I'm currently reading through Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I'm a fan of SciFi, and cyberpunk especially. This book was on my reading list, and I decided to pick it up while in the bookstore the other day.

So far I'm really enjoying it. It feels a bit more pulpy than some of the other cyberpunk classics such as Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but that's not a bad thing. It certainly doesn't take away from the entertainment in my opinion. Not every book needs to have a grand philosophy behind it.

The Count of Monte Cristo! Liking it so far and I've heard good things

I’m halfway into “Guards! Guards!” by Pratchett. My first story of his, and I’m having so much fun!

I usually have a print/ebook and an audio book (for the car) going at the same time.

For print book, currently reading Crooked Kingdom, one of the books in the Grishaverse series/world. I, uh, got a little obsessed after watching the first season of Shadow and Bone a year or two ago.

For audiobook, currently listening to Children of Ruin. Not too far into it yet, but I loved loved loved Children of Time (also listened to the audiobook version), so I'm excited to see where this one goes.

Expeditionary Force: Match Game

Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland.

So far, it is intriguing and enjoyable! Got a ways to go, but I think it'll hold up.

do comic books count? i just started reading DCeased. otherwise i've finally cracked open Lolita, it's an interesting but disgusting read.

Currently working my way through the Three Body Problem series. They are very good but I'm not sure how much I'm enjoying them, they are pretty bleak in places.

@Kamirose I am currently reading the hobbit

Just started Howl's Moving Castle. Liking it so far!

Not exactly like the movie, but it's pretty close.

My 'big read' this year is Finnegans Wake - which I am (or have been) reading week by week along with the TrueLit sub on reddit. It would be a profoundly different experience to read it without the analysis and discussion going on there, so that is something...

Otherwise, I am reading The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, which is engaging and entertaining, as was her The Hollow Places which I read immediately before. I am also dipping into a collection of the Para Handy tales by Neil Munro, which are a cosy - if stereotypical and patronising - glimpse into another time and pace of life.

I have just returned from a couple of weeks away during which I finished an anthology of Clarke Ashton Smith short fantasy tales (all about the atmosphere: story and worldbuilding are very much secondary and character scarcely features); Haldor Laxness's The Atom Station (a sparse look at the clash of modern - written in 1948 - and traditional Icelandic values); and Blackwood's The Willows (an extrapolation of the original idea of "panic" - as several of this other tales are).

Hello, first post here. :D I'm reading A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford.

To sleep in a sea of stars.

A very interesting sci-fi book that was a little slow for the first 50 or so pages but then really took off after that. It's honestly caused meany sleepless nights as I stay up far too late reading because I just can't put it down.

Demons of Good and Evil by Kim Harrison. I've been reading the series since 2004, and I do a little happy dance every time a new book comes out.

I just completed The Terror by Dan Simmons and I am currently reading the second book in the Malazan series by Erikson, Deadhouse Gates.

Malazan is amazing.

I found quite difficult to assess the Terror. It was quite a long read for the first 700 pages, then I really enjoyed the last 2 hundreds. But in retrospect I appreciate this slow pace so ... I am not sure about my judgement. In the end I am glad to have read it. I also learned a lot about people and cultures of the Artic circle.

After the Malazan novel I will probably follow upon the third one, but I could also switch back to (re) reading Iain M. Banks or reading Peake's Ghormenghast for the first time.

The Two Towers. I’ve been needing to read more slowly in the past few years for health reasons, and I am finding lotr just so perfect for that. The nature descriptions are absolutely to die for.

Neuromancer. It's okay so far.

I just finished Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle. I LOVED it.

The Trouble With Peace, by Joe Abercrombie. Glad to be in a mood where I enjoy his cheerful cynicism again. Curious to see if any good deed in the whole long tale (this is book 7, depending on how you count) will remain unpunished though.

Singularity Sky (The Eschaton #1) by Charles Stross

Dracula and Treasure Island. I do so love Project Gutenberg and my Kobo

Memories of Ice - Malazan Book of the Fallen I am really enjoying this series so far. I get absorbed right in even with how dense it is at times.

I have adhd and have a bad habit of starting lots of books and only finishing a few. Currently reading for fun:

• recursion by Blake crouch,
• escape room by Megan goldin,
• and the 2000s made me gay by grace perry.

I also keep some educational books around that I’ll pick up and read maybe once a week:

• liberator psychiatry (an academic book with a few authors can’t remember rn)
• the burning by Tim Madigan
• there’s another essay book I’m reading about asylums but I can’t remember the name nor author. It’s meh so far

The War For Late Night by Bill Carter. It's the follow-up to his book The Late Shift, about the war between Dave and Jay for the Tonight Show. It's not literature for the ages, but it's pretty interesting.