News articles from various sources, academic papers for university classes, discission threads on Lemmy and Reddit, various short form fiction.
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Currently I'm re-reading entertaining trash.
- Dan Brown - Angels and demons. Basically indiana jones / national treasure on steroids. Very entertaining and good storytelling.
- Agatha Christie - And then there were none. An extremely entertaining who-dunnit in a mansion, with lots of twists. Not too long, and keeps you on your toes the whole time.
Audio books here. When I cook, when I'm at the gym, beginning of my shift while I go through my emails. I listen to mostly trashy sci-fi books, sometimes good / decent sci-fi. At the third book in the "Three body problem" trilogy now, it's pretty damn good.
I average at one - two books a month. Great majority sci-fi. I read only for fun, to disconnect, so my bar for quality is pretty low, there's a loooot of fun stuff out there.
Three body books are monumental. They reignited my will to read. Also really enjoying the murderbot diaries which I bet will appeal to all the rad commies in here.
Yes, I read every day, and do about 25 to 30 books per year. Am using https://bookwyrm.social/ instead of GoodReads to track them.
Because I'm often on the train, it's easier for me to take an e-book reader, than anytime carrying a book with me.
Leasure reading has fallen by the wayside. It's a pity but I like a particular type of book that is rarely fulfilled. I mostly just read my subscribed RSS feeds
If anyone has recommendations, I like surreal nonfiction and fiction (not too fantasy, think "his dark materials"), with an emphasis on storytelling and character development. I enjoy most densities, I occasionally dare read academia.
I try to aim for reading around 30 books per year. I tend to pick one fiction and non fiction to read concurrently. I tend to enjoy hard sci-fi the most for fiction, and politics/economics for nonfiction.
Yes, I tend to read the most boring kind of books I can find, they're fun.
I don't think I've ever really did any dedicated reading since the Eragon series when I was still in school.
Fantasy Sci-Fi Horror Post-apocalyptic/dystopian Medieval history Leftist texts Peter Joseph (whatever he is) Mythology/folklore Pagan interests
i read the intros to hundreds of pdf books
Yes: "God: An Anatomy" by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
I love reading fiction. I like classics American as well as contemporary fiction. Occasional foreign translations as well.
Economic textbooks, political science textbooks, computer science textbooks, science fiction novels, manga and visual novels
I like reading Light Novels/Web Novels. Usually Fantasy & Sci-Fi topics. But, since my eyes gets tired very easily reading I use often the Text-to-Speech function. Sometimes up to 90% of the time. I'll be honest, many are not that good quality but they entertain me and are in good format compatible with the Text-to-Speech function.
I also read with less frequency Fantasy & Sci-Fi books like Red Rising, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Green Hank, Enders Game, etc.
I regularly go to the library to expose myself to reading & discovering new books without distractions
I also frequent my local library! Great place to discover books. (To answer the original question: I read poetry, classics, comics, fantasy, sci-fi, history, and some specialist literature)
I've only recently started to get into reading books. I know it may sound silly, but the only books I read growing up was required by school (which was a lot and a lot of important books were read). I tend to read more non-fiction since I don't tend to use reading as escapism as much as I do education.
The other day I read an entire (small) book in a day, and it was a terrible book. It was called The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe. After reading it I looked at some reviews of it and saw that my sentiment was shared. The author did very little research and just goes about discrediting 150 years of scholarly research to arrive at his own conclusion. Additionally, there's a strong sense that the author is upset with political correctness because when referring to an indigenous tribe, he will say the following:
"... the nati -er, indigenous - peoples..."
and it just rubbed me the wrong way entirely. He did this so frequently that it was really upsetting my reading. This book review is pretty short, but devastating: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/08/the-kingdom-of-speech-by-tom-wolfe-review
I read the book because my spouse bought it on a whim some years ago, and I felt like it. Don't recommend though haha. My next two books will be Mutual Aid and The Ice People.
I've been reading Martin's The Armageddon Rag. Will probably read Stross's Quantum of Nightmares next.
It's almost funny to say yes, because I have to for my studies. It's book after book, nonstop. Nonfiction.
And yeah, in my daily life I also read nonfiction, mainly for practical purposes like self-improvement (#FoucaultWasRight), answering questions about conversations I had with my neoliberal friends (#FuckMe), and finding out whether we'll all be doomed or how we could avoid it (#ClimateChange.
But at night I read fiction. Dune rn ๐
Dune rules. Have u read past the first book? I still haven't done any later ones
I love it. His descriptions are always in service of memorable imagery sparking from the least amount of words possible (each character is given one or two physical traits, and that's it) and tension, as opposed to beauty or intellectual complexity for their own sake, or exposition with no drama. He knows his craft. Or I like his style. Take your pick lol
Last night I was at the scene in which the main character (the potential Muab Dib or whatever) is talking to his father about the arrival to Arrakis, the dangers involved, the strategies to mitigate them, and the spice's broader political context. That's 8% of the 3 books, so yeah, still a while from the end of the 1st one.
How was it for you?
It one of my fav sci fi books of all time, the storytelling, the political plotline, the islam influenced religious storyline and its psychedelic undertones, paul and jessica's transformations, the class struggle and fight for control of the planet between the indigenous fremen and the imperium, the ecology focus... there's so much to love.
I'm currently reading Immortel by J.R Dos Santos, I find it pretty good I don't really know the genre tho. Otherwise I really like biographical genre.
Btw I used to think that I couldn't read books because I simply couldn't focus but I've found a trick and now I love reading. The "trick" is that I must listen to a music from which I know the lyrics and I add some white noises to that, like that my mind can only focus on what I'm reading (or at least more than before).
