Just started the full collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s work.

Also going through Ambrose Bierce’s work as well.

In terms of more modern literature, I’m reading Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer amd Book 2 of the Three-Body Problem series by Liu Cixin.

For the most part, I’m looking for a good fantasy series or historical fiction series, but I’m not sure where to start or where to find a good one.

What about the rest of you? Reading anything you like?

Discuss!

  • Black AOC
    3•2 years ago

    I go back to House of Leaves whenever I feel like I need a mental tune-up. It’s been a very House of Leaves winter for me. As for suggestions for good fantasy, have you given T.A. Barron’s “Lost Years of Merlin” series a try? It was one of my first; and coincidentally, one of the only pieces of fantasy tied to Arthurian mythos that I actually enjoy.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
      1•2 years ago

      Never really read much in the way of “Arthurian mythos” literature (do you mean the original stories or the later “additions” in the 20th and 21st century)?

      • Black AOC
        2•2 years ago

        Oh either or, it’s just typically not my groove independent of era. Barron’s work, though, it’s easy to forget you’re even following that Merlin as the world draws you further and further into it, which imo, is a VERY strong point in dispelling that Arthurian feel.

        • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
          1•2 years ago

          Like, in a good way or a bad way? Just curious (don’t mean to “interview” or browbeat): do you mean that it’s easy to kinda lose yourself and forget that it’s just “more King Arthur” or do you mean in the sense that it’s not “that faithful” to the Arthurian feel and mythos?

          I… actually do like the King Arthur tales, the original ones, truth be told, so I don’t see it as a con, I suppose, but I guess I would prefer the “Arthurian and epic” feel to it.

          • Black AOC
            2•2 years ago

            Oh, very much a good way. It’s like, the world it constructs around itself is for the most part, a while before Merlin would come to accompany that Arthur, so i suppose a more clear read would be that it sort of takes on its own kind of identity, while still retaining the epic, ‘land-spanning’ kind of tale.

            • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
              1•2 years ago

              OOOOHHHHH

              Yeah. Gotcha.

              Epic, Arthurian, but able to stand on its own.