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There's a thread about how people find new books, and one of my favorite ways to find things to read was browsing comments from the weekly 'What are you reading' threads in r/truelit and r/books. So what is Lemmy reading?

I'm finishing The Passenger, and about to jump into John Williams' Stoner. Excited to see what is next!

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[–] FearTheCron@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. I love reading science fiction from people with engineering and science backgrounds. Another good book I finished recently was Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

[–] dynamism@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Project Hail Mary was such a fun read for me! I loved how concrete the engineering problems were throughout the book. It kept me tied to the stakes of the story.

Haven’t been able to finish Three Body Problem, unfortunately, it kind of lost me within the first 100 pages. May have to give it another shot! I hear a lot of good things about it.

[–] thematrixisdown@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I personally think the author wrote The Three Body Problem as a prequel to set up for the sequel book, The Dark Forest. Maybe I was just more invested in the world they built at that point?

[–] Maerman@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that's your vibe, try Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's a very technical examination of the phenomenon of consciousness which isn't afraid to get into the weeds, but never quite gets lost in them.

[–] FearTheCron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blindsight was great, I need to read it a second time.

[–] Maerman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Right? It just slaps so hard.

[–] Higlerfay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This book seems to have an equal measure of haters to fans but I loved the entire series. As it goes on it gets weird but imo was soo worth the read. Enjoy!

[–] Dave_r@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Man - 3 body problem (and the whole series) were a great read. What kind blowing shifts in perspective.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That book (three-body) was weeeeird. Really thought it was going to go in a very different direction during the introductory chapters.

I don't know if I liked it but it sure made me think about stuff!

[–] FearTheCron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I still haven't finished it so I am still forming an overall opinion, but its certainly interesting so far.

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greg Egan is another great author like that. Diaspora is a posthumanist acid trip with a ton of esoteric math thrown in. Absolute blast.

[–] FearTheCron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome, adding that one to my reading list!