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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just finished Ten Days that Shook the World. I really enjoyed it. It's one thing to read history from a large-scale top down perspective, another to see how a revolution was actually conducted on a minute by minute street by street basis. Looking for the next thing to read now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Everything is f*cked.

[–] tram1 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Call to Arms, by Lu Xun

It's a short story collection. I'm actually at the beginning, I've only read two stories so far. Kong Yiji is really good!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm halfway through the first Witcher book. After being disappointed with the Netflix show, I had to read the original source. I'm enjoying it so far. My goal is to read them all and play the games afterwards.

[–] readwallah 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats on walking the path! Yeah the books are great and really hit you hard at times. No spoilers from me but enjoy the book series!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brando Sando

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Blindsight by Peter Watts. it's a really unique take on first contact, but wow is it dark

[–] readwallah 2 points 1 year ago

Currently reading Coda vol. 1 right now. Liking the main character particularly his pentacorn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently reading A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark on and off. It's a sequel to a story called A Dead Djinn in Cairo (and others in the same universe) by the same author. The worldbuilding is pretty good. It transports you to this fantasy steampunk version of the world where Egyptian and Arabian culture is dominant (vs just Victorian, as is usually the case with steampunk).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Book of Leaves and Tao Te Ching

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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

The Time Hunters by Carl Ashmore, It's target audience is young but I enjoy books for any age so it's an easy read!

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

The Hooligans of Kandahar by Joe Kassabian.

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

The latest Thrawn book

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

Count Zero by William Gibson

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

Kazohinia by SΓ‘ndor SzathmΓ‘ri. It's a fun double dystopia, especially fun once you recognize our own world.

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

Latest Miss Peregrine book. Recently found out there were three more since I last read it, so I've been catching up this week.

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

Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan

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

Match Game, book 14 of the series Expeditionary Force.

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

Fellowship of the Ring but also Children of Hurin

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

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

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

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky and for non fiction, The Friendly Orange Glow, a history of the Plato system. It's an old online community from like the 80s.

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

Actual reading: Dune. listening to: [The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig](Listen to Wanderers by Chuck Wendig on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/198489174X?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007)

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

I need to pick Cracker! Back up, i started reading it in 8th grade by borrowing it from my English teacher, found it years later on amazon. I just have an issue with not wanting to read books anymore after havign the fun sucked out of them due to public school book tests.

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

Diary of a Drug Addict by Alister Crowley

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

The Fight Club, I can't get myself to finish it, knowing how it ends because of the movie does not help either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dark Age by Pierce Brown, part of the Red Rising series

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

My notes for the next exam... Before that I was reading the Amaranthe series by G. S. Jennsen. I just finished the first three books which make up a trilogy of their own and don't want to start the sequel trilogy until exams are over because I have no self control

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

Douglas Adams Starship Titanic: A Novel by Terry Jones

I think that is the official title. It's set inside the wider Hitchhikers universe, but so far hasn't touched on the events of that series.

Did take my a fair bit of time to get Into it, but as I approach the halfway point it's definitely got me.

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

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator's "voice".

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

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

I usually don't stay engaged with non-fiction, but this book I couldn't put down.

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

I am reading the first book of the series Empire of the Moghul right now.

Classified as historical fiction, it is very interesting to see how the kingdoms evolved and spread in Central Asia.

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