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Wendigee posted:I liked the library at mount char by Scott Hawkins.
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I enjoyed it I'm looking for A new book right now
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Dec 26, 2023 09:27
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I'm reading Capital: A Portrait of 21st Century Delhi, by Rana Dasgupta. It's about how India's 90s economic liberalisation and other earlier historical factors contributed to Delhi as it is today. It's largely told through interviews, mostly with Delhi's oligarch class but also some poor and middle class people. I like it partly because I agree with the author's politics, but also because he usually writes fiction so the prose is more interesting than usual. I also like books that are a deep dive into a city.
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Dec 26, 2023 11:21
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A Feast For Crows, the fourth book in A Song Of Ice and Fire. This is my third read of it and I love it because Cersei's pov chapters are the most entertaining thing I've ever read. She's making so many mistakes but thinks she's a genius and is smarter than anyone else living or dead. Plus there are minimal Starks and I find the Starks super boring.
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Dec 26, 2023 11:30
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Recently fell down the rabbit hole of Ancient Greece and found this little gem on ancient Greek farms. It's well researched, concise and specific when it needs to be, and just really interesting to me overall. https://www.everand.com/read/364039895/The-Ancient-Greek-Farmstead
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Dec 26, 2023 11:32
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Wages Of Destruction, an economic history book about the downfall of Germany in WWII. It's taking a while, because it's an absolute behemoth and I don't have as much reading time as I'd like.
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Dec 26, 2023 13:21
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Beyond the Mauve Zone by Kenneth Grant. Loony Thelema stuff is highly entertaining to me. Before that it was a reread of Flow My Tears by Philip K. Dick which is just a great book.
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Dec 26, 2023 13:27
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Two things: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlöf and The Persian expedition (or however you want to translate that title) by Xenophon. The former is a whimsical, cosy, moral Swedish fairy story, the latter is ancient Greek war/autobio/philosophy/statecraft. The contrast works imo.
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Dec 26, 2023 13:57
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BigHead posted:I'm plugging my way through The Dark Forest trilogy for the second time. It's pretty good sci fi. Also it is a look into Chinese culture where the Chinese culture isn't the star of the show. Like an American writing about Chinese culture will make the culture some big obstacle or spectacle or something. It's refreshing just reading what people do someplace that isn't my country. Although this author really leans into the trope of everyone getting a label and acting in accordance with that label. I’m enjoying it a lot too, it’s a very fresh perspective on what humans and aliens interacting might be like the first book dragged a bit before I got what was happening and then it really got to me in a good way there also are an awful lot of wise, older chinese men who take one look at a young women and how her face is pretty like the sun, on a starlit moonscape, like unto the golden days of yor, and he knew then she had to be mine “oh yes am I shall date you forever, oh wise older chinese guy, because of how hot a lady it is that I am” reminds me of this trope: 
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Dec 26, 2023 16:07
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Those books get really bad because the dude's gender politics are so unbelievably cringe inducing. Cool concepts but just awful moment-to-moment prose and beyond one dimensional characters.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:13
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Anyone read The Expanse series of novels? If you're into page turning sci-fi, these books are it.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:07
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It doesn't really count since I finished it a few weeks back, but a book that really stuck with me was LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer; a quasi-academical/memoir of a Jewish linguistic professor who survived Nazi Germany who tells how he survived through the framing of the language used by the Nazis and how it influenced the general population. If you like Eco's Ur-Fascism, I'd definitely recommend this.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:44
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Me, who is not reading a book, sneaking into the thread in hopes of finding a book to read.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:47
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I'm about halfway through Aparna Nanchurla's Unreliable Narrator and I'm liking it a lot. It is about the author's imposter syndrome and she uses her comedic talents to alleviate some of the tension around the topic.
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Dec 26, 2023 19:28
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redshirt posted:Anyone read The Expanse series of novels? I'm just starting the 7th one of these. They are super fast reads and i think they do a good job with tonal shifts when they change narrators. I also got the 8th book in the series for Christmas so maybe I'll actually finish this bloody series this year, lol
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Dec 26, 2023 19:30
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rear end-penny posted:I'm just starting the 7th one of these. They are super fast reads and i think they do a good job with tonal shifts when they change narrators. I also got the 8th book in the series for Christmas so maybe I'll actually finish this bloody series this year, lol You're in for a treat! 7-8-9 are the best books in the series IMO. They finish so strong. These books were also not filmed yet for the show (a few parts were though).
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Dec 26, 2023 19:35
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Super Powereds Book 3 by Drew Hayes. it's free on Kindle unlimited and really long, series about newly turned superheroes going to superhero college. surprisingly decent if a little CW-esque relationship stuff, on top of the fun from all the different powers and combat and whatnot.
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Dec 26, 2023 19:36
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Grey Cat posted:Me, who is not reading a book, sneaking into the thread in hopes of finding a book to read. Kokoro by Soseki Natsume
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Dec 26, 2023 19:41
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and World War Z
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Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart I’m about halfway through but enjoying it greatly. Also the first physical book I’ve bought in ages because for some reason it doesn’t seem to be available for Kindle.
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Dec 26, 2023 19:43
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currently flipping through how to be a renaissance woman: the untold history of beauty & female creativity, a treatise on the history and power dynamics of hotness. a decent read so far
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Dec 26, 2023 19:56
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after i mostly quit drinking i started reading a lot more because i was just bored with video games. ive been focusing on books with interesting magic systems. i like sci fi too, also going to promote kobo as a place to also buy books digitally. they have lots of deals and some of the books are drm free incoming : children of time: sci fi. modified animals that create their own society. i only read the first 2 so far, but different species in each. foundryside: very good. female MC. magic is kind of like programming, and essentially the MC interacts with it unique to the world. Unnatural Magic: the sequel is Ruthless Ladys Guide to Wizardry. i dont know if they are considered together, but it follows the same characters (ish). more romance based but described troll life as a sort of hippy-ogre (in my mind). female MCs Malevolent Seven: Male MC who is able to use magic because he made a deal with a devil. i think most magic has to come from somewhere else for humans. devil/angels are among the races. implies a sequel but nothing yet Black Prism: magic comes from lights and colors. very good. 5 books. DO NOT MISS A Deadly Education: wizard school. magic is eaten by creatures and essentially wizards dump their kids in a "school" the locks down until graduation, to protect them from the world. if they cant survive too bad. but of course creatures come in. female mc just started Ninth House. i think its wizard illuminati. tom holt is also good for contemporary fantasy. and i like chuck palakniuk.
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I liked A Deadly Education. The idea that everyone's room had one wall as this nebulous void they asked for new spells and got something ... vaguely relevant in the form of some old book or scrap of paper of spells was fun.
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Dec 26, 2023 20:32
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Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut It's the first book I've cracked open in years; it's high time I get off a screen for leisure more often. I have a stack of Vonnegut from my early 20s when I still read regularly, gonna revisit them all.
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i'm reading the salvation gambit and its pissing me tf off!!!!! actually most of the new books I've been picking up are pissing me off with their wishy washy rear end main characters so I reread all of Ann Leckie's catalogue recently.Edgar Allan Pwned posted:
Unnatural Magic is one of my favorite books, one of the characters in Ruthless Lady's is the child of two of the characters from the first. Ninth House is "yeah they're literally doing magic at skull and bones" and it does own.
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Dec 26, 2023 21:48
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I finished reading Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro a few days ago, and I loving hated it.
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Dec 26, 2023 21:54
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An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. It's been a busy season so I haven't picked up the book in a few weeks, but it's excellent; a great companion piece to Zinn's A People's History of the United States. We're probably not unique among other countries of the world but so much of our own history is bullshit.
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madhouse at the end of the earth by julian sancton-the belgian 1897-99 expedition to antarctica. features a young roald amundsen. also so many penguins, 3 members give themselves medals and call themselves the order of the penguin. what else are you going to do when you're trapped in ice for months with no sun?
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Dec 26, 2023 22:42
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What I’m reading: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. What’s good about it: it “caused” the Civil War
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I’m reading about the Plantagenet Kings of England because I’d always assumed they sounded pretty dull, but it turns out they did things like “arrange the massacre of the Archbishop of Canterbury on the altar of his own Cathedral” and other stuff that very clearly inspired Game of Thrones
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cumpantry posted:Kokoro by Soseki Natsume Looks like it's the final in a trilogy? Should I be reading the first two?
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goatface posted:I finished reading Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro a few days ago, and I loving hated it. The movie sucks too
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Grey Cat posted:Looks like it's the final in a trilogy? huh. i wasn't aware of that LOL. well i dont think i'm missing anything but you never know. still good readan
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Grey Cat posted:Looks like it's the final in a trilogy? Read The Expanse. It's great.
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Wendigee posted:I'm upset you didn't comment on my excellent book recommendation. sorry I missed it. what was your excellent book recommendation?
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Dec 27, 2023 04:57
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It was mentioned earlier, but again if you like sci-fi, this one more "hard": Children of Time It's real good and worth all the hype you've maybe heard. Read it. The next book is good too, but doesn't reach the same heights IMO. Children of Time is like wild sci fi concepts played out for 800 pages and it all works and you want more, story wise.
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anyone else remeber that weird time in the 2010s where everything had to be a trilogy? Like there was no point in the second book, but they gave you a three book deal? Twin Pines and The Magicians are the ones I really remember
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:anyone else remeber that weird time in the 2010s where everything had to be a trilogy? Like there was no point in the second book, but they gave you a three book deal? Twin Pines and The Magicians are the ones I really remember Hunger Games
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redshirt posted:Hunger Games yeah, that second book was just a pile of words
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