Current Events > Been reading anything lately, CE?

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Recently finished up the Books of Babel and what a ride, loved that series. Great setting, memorable characters. Really looking forward to book 4 in November!

I read the Firewall Trilogy on an impulse buy because they were 2 bucks a pop on Amazon. It was very... Okay. Cool setting but pretty flat characters and some very bland prose at points. Not bad at all though!

I then quickly went through A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking which was just a fun read. I don't read many comedies so it was a good palate cleanser.

I'm starting the Poppy War series next, has a ton of acclaim so I'm looking forward to getting into it.

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I read your obituary.

DUN DUN DUUUUNNNN.

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I haven't read anything in a while but I went to Barnes & Nobles yesterday and was overwhelmed lol. There was one book that caught my eye called A Darker Shade of Magic and I thought it was interesting with the multiple Londons

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DuranOfForcena posted...

been doing a reread of Plato's The Republic on audiobook while i get in my daily cardio the last couple days. should finish it today.

i need to get back to Rhythm of War though. got about a quarter of the way into it a few months back and just kinda... dropped it, i dunno lol. i think it was mostly series fatigue, since i started The Stormlight Archive this year and was going through the series proper as well as the novellas, and also Warbreaker in direct succession.

Bro you powered through Stormlight insanely fast, not surprised you need a break lol. Rhythm of War has my favorite moment in the series though so it's definitely worth the time when you are feeling up to it.

Touch posted...

I haven't read anything in a while but I went to Barnes & Nobles yesterday and was overwhelmed lol. There was one book that caught my eye called A Darker Shade of Magic and I thought it was interesting with the multiple Londons

I have that one on my TBR list, heard good things.

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I started reading a linguistics textbook with someone and reread parts of Artificial Intelligence by John Haugeland

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The last books I finished like a month ago were the Witcher series and Capitalism and Freedom.

I've been very slowly working on the first Broken Earth book and The Art of Strategy (game theory for laymen).

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yeah.

I was reading Deep Adaption: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos

it's on hold for a week while I read The Ministry for the Future, which i had on hold at the library and was informed when i went to pick it up that it's due in 1 week because other people have it on hold. so, one week to do 564 pages. i'm doing it.

Jabodie posted...

I've been very slowly working on the first Broken Earth book and The Art of Strategy (game theory for laymen).

Nice, that first Broken Earth book is a trip with the second person narration chapters. I'm not the biggest fan of the other two books but Fifth Season was excellent.

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My girlfriend is a big fan of the books. I've been more into gaming lately than books, but I sneak in chapters here and there.

Usually I try to have one fiction and one nonfiction book going at a given time.

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Currently reading a webnovel called Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. It's quite good; it's about a guy who reads a webnovel to the end, and then the apocalypse begins. The novel he was reading was titled, "Three ways to the survive the apocalypse", and he's the only person in the world who read all 3,000+ chapters of it. It's a fun twist on the "deathgame" genre (Alice in Borderland, Tower of God, etc) where it's from a Reader's perspective. Someone who knows the ending, didn't like it, and wants to derail the plot to get to a new, never before seen ending.

After that I may try the Animorphs books. They've got some cool anti-war themes and the author released them for free somewhere I think.

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