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What book(s) are you reading right now? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by porkloin@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Title says it all! I'll go first.

I'm doing my first re-read of LOTR since I first read it when I was in middle school ~15 yr ago. Just finished up Fellowship the other day and started Two Towers yesterday. It's really fun to revisit it with an adult brain 😛 Up next after RotK will be Katherine Addison's sequel to The Goblin Emperor, The Witness for the Dead

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[–] sagar@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Dictator's Handbook, 48 laws of power by Daniel Greene and Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger.

[–] blank_sl8@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Just finished I, Robot. I enjoyed Foundation much more.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I haven't had much time to read for leisure lately, but Marx is high up on my reading list. And while not technically books, I am reading a lot of papers and scholarly articles for my environmental science major.

[–] Azure@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

The Coldfire Trilogy! I'm not sure if I like it so far. It hasn't really grabbed me, but I'm giving it a chance to see if it does.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Re-reading an audiobook of Dune with wifey in anticipation of the movie this october.

Also reading the count of monte cristo, its a really damn good revenge story.

I usually reread the silmarillion, but I might try to reread LOTR, same as you, I read in middle school and havent done since, but I remember really enjoying them.

[–] IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Critical Theory, by Max Horkheimer and The Red Book, by Mao Zedong.

[–] felipeforte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

"Lenin's Democratic Centralism"

[–] poVoq@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Similar thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/53844

I just started reading: "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers. Not sure if good or not yet.

Edit: about 1/3 into it now, seems like a fun story, but nothing that will blow your mind or such.