About half way through James Clavell's Shogun. Highly recommended if you're looking for a deep adventure novel!
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I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley (all 900pp!)
It's basically a US-centric "narrative" of the 2030's, told from the PoV of about a dozen different characters, with the thread of climate change prominent throughout.
Really it's hard to describe it as good or bad, an enjoyable read etc. It is certainly well written, and characterisation is exceptionally good and detailed, but for me it was by turns scary, amusing, depressing, profoundly sad and wrenching in its humanity. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy based on the science.
It took me almost a month to read because I had to take breaks to get my "cognitive dissonance" recharged.
I would definitely recommend it.
It would make a good streaming series on Amazon Prime or Apple TV.
I finished Waybound by Will Wight yesterday. It was a great finish to the Cradle series.
Now I'm on Honor of the Queen by David Weber. I don't think I'll make it through more than about the first five of the Honor Harrington books. They start to transition into a more political series than "space ships go boom", so that's about where I stopped the last time.
Then I've got The Day of the Triffids on my slate, but we'll see if that holds.
I'm finally reading Declare by Tim Powers. All I can say is holy shit I never knew how much I needed this book in my life.
Just looked up the description and this book sounds fun, I'll add it to the queue. What about it made you feel this way?
The level of research is evident---Tim Powers doesn't skimp on the details at all. I normally don't like espionage thrillers but he makes the Great Game come alive. And that's before the weirder elements come in.
Currently making my way through The Guns of August. It's pretty dense compared to what I usually read but something about the writing style makes each chapter fly by faster than expected!
Currently reading Baseball: an illustrated history. Quite a thick book so I'll probably be reading it for a while. It's a nice change of pace since the book I was reading last month was pop fiction
Number Ones by Tom Breihan
A history of the songs that made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 list. I'm really enjoying it!
I'm finishing up A Crown of Swords this evening.
After a decade of literary fiction I'm going back to check on some more mainstream stuff. I'm reading The Dark Tower saga by Stephen King. Just starting the first book.
memoirs of a revolutionist pt 1 by peter kropotkin
Chuck Palahniuk - Consider This
I’m reading Diary by him right now!
I'll have to check it out!
The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand. Recaptures the magic of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, but as an adult.
I’m reading To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, but only because my girlfriend told me to read from more modernist authors. I’m liking her prose despite the dry beginning, but I’ll see how it comes along over time.
The Journey to the West, translated by Anthony C. Yu. Given that it is 100 chapters long and I'm still at chapter 6 it's gonna take a long time for me to finish, so I'm thinking about reading another book alongside it.
Just finished Iron Gold by Pierce Brown. It feels kind of like a "bridge book" where it wasn't all that great compared to the others in the series so far.
Now I'm off to Shards of the Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I've started to read a lot of his stuff and I'm enjoying them all.
Wow. Your taste in books is right up my alley! I'd add Brandon Sanderson.
I am currently listening to the Way of Kings on Audiobook. I did mistborn years ago and I didn't enjoy it enough to keep going with the series. I've heard the second trilogy is much better.
Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
I'm just about to start Berg by Ann Quin, which seems to be about a man who stalks his dad and mistress through a seaside town. It looks really good from the first few pages.
Victor Of Tuscon
Exhalation by Ted Chiang. About 3/4 through so far and really enjoying it. The scifi concepts are great and I like that it doesn't always have a black mirror, technology is going to kill us ending.
SS by Barış Pehlivan and Barış Terkoğlu. It's basically a book about Süleyman Soylu's crimes. It's indeed a heavy read, but I think the book does a good job with shedding light on who Soylu really is, so far (I'm at Chapter 5).
Finished reading Blindsight by Peter Watts. I haven’t read this good Science Fiction book in a long time. On to Echopraxis, as it’s a double edition
Bit of a strange pairing, but currently reading:
Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best by Neal Bascomb
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov