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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Death's End by Liu Cixin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Poet by Michael Connelly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul:Re. A decade late but I loved it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I finished Machine Learning (short story anthology) by Hugh Howey about an hour ago, so pretty fresh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oryx & Crake - solid start to a Margaret Atwater series. Lots of world building and exposition. Looking forward to continuing the series. Currently reading Fairy Tale by Stephen King

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just finished re-reading all of the pre-Disney Star Wars novels. I'm into Patrick O'Brian's standalone novels now, starting with "The Unknown Shore".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just finished reading Waybound, the 12th and final book in the Cradle series by Will Wight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just finished The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. I've kind of half-followed Welcome to Night Vale for years and enjoyed all the books so far.

I'm currently reading House of Leaves. This is my second attempt, after making it about halfway a few years ago. It's a great book, but a challenging read because it's dense and shifts context frequently. I find that the context-switching adds to the unsettling feel that the book is going for, but it's definitely not for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The last new book I read was Ready Player One.

The last book I've read in general was At The Mountains of Madness for the umpteenth time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is How You Lose the Time War

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A. Das and T. Ferbel -Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics.

It was an interesting book but a horrible experience in general. I gotta finish this degree

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World - Steve Brusatte

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Unsurprisingly, I've become more conscious of my bedtime, but one small diagram was significant to meβ€” having small periods where you wake up every 3 hours or so was a normal part of sleep. Since then, I've become less stressed over the quality of sleep I was getting, which then improved my sleep quality...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was called β€œDrunk” and was about human’s history with inebriates with an emphasis on alcohol. For a book on booze it was incredibly dry and while the author made some decent points he tended to just repeat them over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Given the amount of fantasy books in this list - you're all welcome to come join us over at [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve been on a memoir kick. Specifically women celebrities. I just finished Mean Baby by Selma Blair and it was good. I’m about to start Hello Molly by Molly Shannon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm chewing my way through the stormlight archives by Bryan Sanderson. Just finished book 2.5, on book 3 now.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

somewhat interesting and in the same vein as the Barsoom/Mars books by Burroughs but more preachy and less action.

It was on the "free" pile at the library.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Herb Mertz, The Selection Effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

fiasco by stanislav lem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was okay, though I don't think it lived up to the hype for me. I actually preferred Klara and the Sun to this one, though still worth a read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Gate of the Feral Gods; Book 4 of recently 6 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl LITRPG series by Matt Dinniman. It's been an absolute blast so far, and I highly recommend the series if you like some combination of tabletop RPGs, cats, death games, or explosions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

5th book of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, currently reading. Before that I read the 4th book.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Overlord. I've need to finish volumes 14-17, but it demotivates me that author abandoned his work.

[–] leviathan 1 points 1 year ago

I'm currently binging the Cradle series, just finished volume 4. I can't recommend it enough if you're into power progression fantasies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Currently reading war and peace by Tolstoi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I read The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb and it was fantastic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (Viktor E. Frankl)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"GOD: An Anatomy" by Francesca Stavrakapoulou.

"An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippersβ€”with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous."

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