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Tell us about it. Got any recommendations? Do avoid spoilers if applicable, of course.

As for me, I just got done with The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a Black-Jewish agender particle physicist and social justice activist. Its a wonderful book, weaving physics, anthropology, sociology, and her own autobiography together as a lens to examine how we do science, why its not the best, and how we could do it better. Shes extremely smart, well-educated, witty, and possesses great clarity of thought and humility. I feel smarter and wiser for having read it.
Also she ends the book with a pages-long thank you to her mom, which is pretty adorable. But enough about me. Tell me about what youve been reading!

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i'm currently reading Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

as for a recommendation, yeah, a few weeks ago I read The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity and i believe everyone needs to read it. it represents the most desperately needed paradigm shift of all-time. not to oversell it or anything.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Heists/con artistry set in a low-fantasy setting like Game of Thrones. Basically the Thieve's Guild in Skyrim. I'm 200 pages in. Not bad so far.

The writing on the wall

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
It started off really good, especially since it deals with suicide and I've lost a good friend to it. Really articulates the feelings you get. But slowly it just started getting less poignant and more sexual and boring. Almost done it!

I'm also technically in the middle of The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. Fun little young adult read but I'm not sure if I'll finish it anytime soon.

I'm in the middle of a few other series' (The Dark Tower, Kingkiller Chronicle, Red Queen, Abyss Surrounds Us, Song of Ice/Fire) but I don't know when I'll start the next book in each series.

ApherosyLove posted...

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
It started off really good, especially since it deals with suicide and I've lost a good friend to it. Really articulates the feelings you get. But slowly it just started getting less poignant and more sexual and boring. Almost done it!

I'm also technically in the middle of The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. Fun little young adult read but I'm not sure if I'll finish it anytime soon.

I'm in the middle of a few other series' (The Dark Tower, Kingkiller Chronicle, Red Queen, Abyss Surrounds Us, Song of Ice/Fire) but I don't know when I'll start the next book in each series.

You write very well

I know this looks bad.

A friend of mine wrote it, it's oddly entertaining.
It's a great before-bed read. One notable thing is, there is an entry for each day of the year, so if you like one in particular you can just remember the date. Same with if your book closes without a book mark...you can just think...Oh I was at about August 13th.

It hits a lot of things, but I will say, there were moments when I almost bounced my cat off my chest at 3AM laughing at some of the entries. Others are a bit more serious.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-know-this-looks-bad-jpv-oliver-gent/1140114787

Your mind

1984 for the first time. Scary stuff so far.

a-c-a-b posted...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

Much better than the film.
You should check The Electric Koolaid Acid test as well.

Nothing at the moment. Fresh off comps exams and can't read anything right now lol.

This is probably next on my list though:
https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Ages-History-Medieval-Europe/dp/0062980890

Or Dune.

ApherosyLove posted...

Kingkiller Chronicle,

The popular opinion on the internet is that book 2 isn't as good as the first. I disagree. Almost all the most memorable moments happen in book 2, and Rothfuss is clearly a more experienced writer by then.

The Metamorphosis by Kafka is THE most underrated horror novella of all time.

Deadly serious, recommended reading

I'm also listening to the Oryx and Crake audiobook. I'm about halfway in. Post apocalyptic/dystopian triggered by humans playing with genome stuff. Written by the same woman who wrote the Handmaid's Tale.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein,

Hey so I'm pretty stupid, especially when it comes to science. How difficult is the read? It sounds interesting but, again, I am of very small mind.

Metal_Bug posted...

The popular opinion on the internet is that book 2 isn't as good as the first. I disagree. Almost all the most memorable moments happen in book 2, and Rothfuss is clearly a more experienced writer by then.

I honestly don't know that I could choose. I just see them as part of the same story and love both equally. But you're probably right.

ApherosyLove posted...

Hey so I'm pretty stupid, especially when it comes to science. How difficult is the read? It sounds interesting but, again, I am of very small mind.

Lovecraft

Metal_Bug posted...

I'm also listening to the Oryx and Crake audiobook.

Frankenstein

Dude what the fuck are you doing

ApherosyLove posted...

Dude what the fuck are you doing

It's all he ever does. He just enters any topic on the front page and posts totally random bullshit to derail it.

Cringe

Your bullshit is acceptable but mine isnt? Yuck

Ysmir posted...

I honestly don't know that I could choose. I just see them as part of the same story and love both equally. But you're probably right.

Same. I can't finish the first book and then just not read the 2nd book.

SiO4 posted...

Much better than the film.
You should check The Electric Koolaid Acid test as well.

Yep. I hated how the film adaption totally minimalized the role of Chief Bromden even though the entire book is from his perspective.

ApherosyLove posted...
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Heh. Europa Universalis IV has an achievement named Norwegian Wood. The reference ends there though: it simply tasks you to control every province in the world that produces naval supplies, as Norway. It is both difficult and tedious and I have no intention of attempting it.

ApherosyLove posted...

Hey so I'm pretty stupid, especially when it comes to science. How difficult is the read? It sounds interesting but, again, I am of very small mind.

She explains things very clearly and concisely, IMO. She's not expecting you to have intimate knowledge of physics or anything like that.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/6/1/AAW5a5AACrnx.jpg

Bruce Catton's Civil War. Surprisingly enough it's about the Civil War. I'd like it more if it had more maps, cause I like maps in my history books.

ApherosyLove posted...

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
It started off really good, especially since it deals with suicide and I've lost a good friend to it. Really articulates the feelings you get. But slowly it just started getting less poignant and more sexual and boring. Almost done it!

I'm also technically in the middle of The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. Fun little young adult read but I'm not sure if I'll finish it anytime soon.

I'm in the middle of a few other series' (The Dark Tower, Kingkiller Chronicle, Red Queen, Abyss Surrounds Us, Song of Ice/Fire) but I don't know when I'll start the next book in each series.

You totally need to read Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

Night CE bump. I ordered The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy, to help me become a badass lady, like Mona.

Also she shared an anecdote about once meeting Bjork in a queer bar on Twitter on Bjork's recent birthday, which made me super jealous because I would love to meet Mona and/or Bjork.

The Complete Idiots Guide to Chess

The first Witcher book

a-c-a-b posted...

Yep. I hated how the film adaption totally minimalized the role of Chief Bromden even though the entire book is from his perspective.

Ya, it couldn't hold my attention really. Granted this was 20 years ago.

All Quiet on The Western Front however is a film that matches the novel.

CrimsonWaffle posted...

The first Witcher book

First time?
The ending to the 2nd one can almost make me cry every time.

Flight or Flight - a collection of short stories edited by Stephen King

It's got some big names in there (King himself, obviously, Joe Hill, Bradbury, Dahl, Matheson, Conan Doyle) but also some writers I haven't experienced before.

I just finished another read-through of Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui.

It really speaks to me as an atypical story of teaching and learning, and one that allows the students to grow incredibly well thanks to an amazing teacher.

Rimuru.

Metal_Bug posted...

First time?
The ending to the 2nd one can almost make me cry every time.

Yeah, first time

CyricZ posted...

I just finished another read-through of Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui.

It really speaks to me as an atypical story of teaching and learning, and one that allows the students to grow incredibly well thanks to an amazing teacher.

@CyricZ
Have you read Great Teacher Onizuka? You'd probably like it

the two towers

it's kinda boring

I just finished the last of the Witcher books today.
While I'm glad I read it, they aren't the best written books. The stuff with the main characters was all enjoyable, but they tended to get sidetracked in boring political intrigue (and normally I'm a fan of boring political intrigue).

Feline_Heart posted...

@CyricZ
Have you read Great Teacher Onizuka? You'd probably like it

I haven't. I worry it'll be too outdated.

Leviathan Falls a couple weeks ago. now i'm without again. might start on the sandersonverse

Read Moench/Trimpe Godzilla last night, haven't picked a new comic yet.
Plots were pretty good, Moench has a fun 50s style of scripting, Trimpe was the perfect guy to draw big G. Ending made me tear up too, I'm a sucker for "a kid and his X" type stories.
Xethuminra posted...

Your mind

Laughed out loud, bravo my friend, bravo

CyricZ posted...

I haven't. I worry it'll be too outdated.

I read it a year ago and it didnt feel outdated to me

Started reading the DC Challenge

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb. It goes into serial killers using poisons in that era and how detectives came up with testing and modern methods to track them down.

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