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!
Assorted furry erotica
I just started The Three Body Problem as well. Are you enjoying it?
I liked “A Memory Called Empire” as well. Hoping she does another book in that series.
I need fiction to eyebleach out whatever the fuck reality is doing these days.
Oooh! I was thinking abour reading The Three Body Problem! Let me know how it is! Otherwise, I’ll just keep reading Neal Stephenson :-)
Will do 🥰- I’m about half way through and it’s yet to bore me. I have zero interest (or understanding) in physics either and read that it was a bit of a slog in reviews but it’s really kept my interest so far.
We need a little book club for fiction up in this joint! I’m gonna go look and see if there is one haha
I just started Arkady Martine’s book today, actually. Also, I finished the first Three-Body Problem book. I enjoyed it a lot.
Western media on Ukraine.
I kid, I’ve been rereading some of the star wars comics lately.
I’ve been trying to keep up with the recent Marvel ones.
Also, new thread:
I haven’t read fiction for over a year. If you want something non-fiction thats not too heavy I’d suggest Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Although be warned, he often wrote like he just discovered a thesaurus.
Walden is pretty good. I read a bit of it and wanted to throw out most of my shit. It’s a book that gets me into spring cleaning mood.
I do remember needing to look up some words, but compared to a lot of communist writing from the turn of the century it’s comparatively light reading.
I like that, tbh.
Currently making my way through the Expanse series, and before anyone asks I haven’t seen any of the shows.
Good. I hate TV shows based off of books.
Cixin Liu, check out literally everything he’s written.
The man is a fantastic sci fi writer, an engineer at water treatment facility and a real ‘Communist with Chinese Characteristics’. Highly recommend for all looking for a truly forward looking and intelligent individual.
A lot of Chinese friends that I know have said the same thing; he is indeed a communist and a great writer.
I am in the process of reading Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. I hope to start the wheel of time afterwards.
Good luck!
I will sure as hell need it.
haha
Penguin Island by Anatole France, a satire of the history of western civilization. You can get it free here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anatole-france/penguin-island/a-w-evans
Been on an entertaining but possibly trash book kick lately. Currently reading jurassic park, 20k leagues under the sea, the three musketeers. Recently finished “surely you’re joking mr feynmann”.
How is three body problem? I’ve heard good things.
Liu Cixin is considered to be the best sci-fi writer currently living in China, at least in terms of popular appeal.
Certainly my WeChat friends know him and like him, though of course, a lot doesn’t get translated into English (I mean other writers) so it’s not like I can compare.
But I really do like his work.
Sweet! I found an audiobook for three-body problem, so I gonna download it soon.
An audiobook might be good. I read it, but listening is good too.
The Kingkiller Chronicle
Nice!
Almost finished with a novel called Rule 34 by Charles Stross and I’m a third into a graphic novel called Kobane Calling
Noice.
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.
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)?
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.
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.
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.
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Yeah. Gotcha.
Epic, Arthurian, but able to stand on its own.
HP Lovecraft’s Necronomicon
lmao
I’m on a gothic lit binge - Vathek, The Castle of Otronto, Melmoth the Wanderer, Jane Eyre, the Monk - all super fun.
Nice! I hear the Gormenghast series is great Gothic literature (more Gothic than fantasy, anyways).
Diary of a Drug Fiend by Alister Crowley
Ah interesting.
