What book are you reading...

UTmaniac · 29 Apr 2022 at 18:39

Oops, thought this was a GD thread.

toshj · 29 Apr 2022 at 19:12

PlacidCasual said:
I started the Joe Abercrombie - Age of Madness trilogy a few weeks ago having loved the First Law trilogy. So just finished "The Trouble with Peace" cool book loved the plotting and scheming and the grand battles very entertaining. I have the final book in the trilogy on pre-order and due out in a few weeks time so looking forward to completing the trilogy.

For those who haven't read it the First Law trilogy is brilliant, fantasy with a very real and lived in feel. The Bloody Nine became in an instant one of my all time favourite characters.

That's good to hear. I've just started listening to it on audio book. Finished Red Country last week, and Beat Served Cold before that.

Red Country was a solid 7/10, maybe more. Slow build was too slow in my opinion, but it had some great payoffs.

Best Served Cold is simply an amazing book.

Werewolf · 30 Apr 2022 at 23:30

I finished Kaiju Preservation Society by John Sclazi the other day, which is quite a fun take on "what if humans discovered they existed and tried to protect them".
I really enjoyed it, although it's quite a short read.

Tor.com have a related article about the safety handbook for the organisation.

Earth[Tera].bin · 10 May 2022 at 20:35

The Fall of Babel: Book Four of the Books of Babel.

Enjoyed the first three but the start of the fourth seems to be dragging on a bit. Longer chapters don't help either. Hopefully it improves as the story moves on.

potatolord · 11 May 2022 at 13:34

Just finished The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. A memoir of a German soldier fighting (mostly) in ukraine during ww2. Not bad, but drags a bit towards the end.

Russian artillery seems to still be a thing...

potatolord · 17 May 2022 at 13:44

I've just finished Nebula Winners 16, a Sci fi short stories book from 1980. Surprisingly good, as I normally don't like scifi written after 1970.

IvanDobskey · 18 May 2022 at 09:59

Finished Dune. Now reading the final expanse book.

cheesefest · 20 May 2022 at 16:22

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Always-Mum-xxx-surviving-ebook/dp/B07GRDSC6G on Kindle

If anyone saw my Kindle contents - serial killers and history with the odd smattering of humour, they think I need think I am a psycho.

potatolord · 7 Jun 2022 at 15:18

Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley. More scifi short stories, and mostly good.

throwaway4372 · 7 Jun 2022 at 15:28

Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything
by Rob Eastaway
[Amazon Link]

Handy tips for roughly calculating stuff.
More useful in the real world than a Maths GCSE.

pepp77 · 7 Jun 2022 at 15:31

I'm working my way through the Tom Lowe - Shaun O'Brien series of books. On 10 of 13 at the moment. They are easy readers with nothing too deep in them, great for when sitting on that beach in the sun

PlacidCasual · 7 Jun 2022 at 21:58

The Wisdom of Crowds 3rd book in Joe Abercrombie’s Age of Madness trilogy. Really good stuff building very nicely to its finale.

I always new how bad The Terror of the French Revolution was but I’ve never read a novel in that setting. This book captures some of the hopeless brutal savager, the waste and the pain really well.

Kyo · 7 Jun 2022 at 23:15

Gaunt's Ghosts- Salvation's Reach by Dan Abnett.

doogs · 8 Jun 2022 at 12:08

I'm currently reading "I am Pilgrim" - good so far - think its jumping about a bit but enjoying it.

potatolord · 9 Jun 2022 at 22:28

I've just finished The best of Richard matheson. The guy who wrote I Am Legend. Horror/ scifi short stories that range from humour to deeply moving. Excellent!

potatolord · 15 Jun 2022 at 23:05

Just finished To The Last Round, by Andrew Salmon. It's about the British troops who fought in Korea in 1951.

It's excellent, and very well-written.

roccles · 16 Jun 2022 at 09:56

Just finished The Stand by Stephen King, took me a good few months to read but was absolutely brilliant and probably felt more relatable due to covid and the pandemic than if I had read it beforehand.

hood1971 · 16 Jun 2022 at 16:48

Just finished Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. It is brilliant and strange in equal measure. Enjoyed the movie, though not sure if that was based on the trilogy, as they story departs quite a bit.

Currently reading Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Quite enjoyable but I find very short chapters take me out of the book.

arc@css · 16 Jun 2022 at 22:26

Steve Davis: Interesting.

regulus · 20 Jun 2022 at 03:54

15 years late but currently reading 'The Name Of the Wind'.

Don't need to talk it up too much. It's well documented on here what an excellent book it is. And it's not disappointing thus far at all.