Thread: What are you reading?

"Other Lands" by David Anthony Durham (Book Two of the Acacia Trilogy)

Has anyone read "The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin? If you did what did you think about it?

Read it and seriously be disturbed. It's so disturbing this book is banned in England :p

Book-banning really grinds my gears.

There is never a good reason for banning ANY book.

@O, i was just reading that but I had to return it to the library xD

right now I'm reading this



But I'm also dabbling in

No one? I am dissapoint. I don't think I've ever had a better time reading a book.

Reading William buhlman's Adventures beyond the body and

Originally Posted by Mancon

Read it and seriously be disturbed. It's so disturbing this book is banned in England :p

I've seen the movie. But they didn't put all the nasty stuff in the movie, I heard there are some deleted scenes. Something about him jizzing in his pants, excuse my language.
Pretty disturbing indeed.

and I'm reading Other Lands - David Anthony Durham (book two of the acacia trilogy)

Originally Posted by Oneironaut Zero

That looks awfully more dense than the one I read. o.0

Originally Posted by Erii

@O, i was just reading that but I had to return it to the library xD

right now I'm reading this



But I'm also dabbling in

That 'The Trial' was quite enlightening. ^_^

I need to read a really good book. Everything I've read lately is manga. :3 Can anyone recommend a mystery with an awesome twist at the end?

I burned through the manga Berserk and started re-reading Gantz to get caught up to where I left off last time. I'm a little over halfway through Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, and I'm asymptotically approaching the end of The Windup Bird Chronicle audiobook (I've been working through the last 90 minutes for about two weeks). All of the above have been great; characterization in Gantz is more shallow than I remember, but the mindfuckery carries you along. I haven't been so slow getting through TWBC because it's boring, but because I always turn it on when I'm ready to go to sleep

Originally Posted by Taffy

I need to read a really good book. Everything I've read lately is manga. :3 Can anyone recommend a mystery with an awesome twist at the end?

Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I think you'll enjoy his jazzy literary style, like most do. I wouldn't exactly call it mystery, unless you label the mystery of the mind as such. ^_^

Originally Posted by Taosaur

I burned through the manga Berserk and started re-reading Gantz to get caught up to where I left off last time. I'm a little over halfway through Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, and I'm asymptotically approaching the end of The Windup Bird Chronicle audiobook (I've been working through the last 90 minutes for about two weeks). All of the above have been great; characterization in Gantz is more shallow than I remember, but the mindfuckery carries you along. I haven't been so slow getting through TWBC because it's boring, but because I always turn it on when I'm ready to go to sleep

Ah, what are the chances. You mention a Murakami novel moments before. And I'm currently reading Gantz lol.....yeah, not sure what the hell is really happening in it recently. Fight after fight without any real story progression.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I think you'll enjoy his jazzy literary style, like most do. I wouldn't exactly call it mystery, unless you label the mystery of the mind as such. ^_^

That one sounds really cool. I'll try it if I can find it.

@Tausaur I heard Gantz was good. I'll read that too since it's gotten so much love. I recently finished Mirai Nikki, and I really liked it. It's definitely worth checking out.

Originally Posted by Taffy

That one sounds really cool. I'll try it if I can find it.

@Tausaur I heard Gantz was good. I'll read that too since it's gotten so much love. I recently finished Mirai Nikki, and I really liked it. It's definitely worth checking out.

Haha, Gantz has got much love, but in Gantz, it's quite the opposite.

Originally Posted by hermine_hesse

Read that - The section where it incorporates mediation practice into the success of lucid dreaming is very valuable, I've found. Though it appears that the ultimate 'dream state' of LD in the book differs from the usual, desired dream state; we like narrative, action, sequences of events, and magic. Insightful read though.

All I've been reading with my eyeballs are sci-fi short stories on the train and in waiting rooms (on my phone or tablet), but I've been burning through audiobooks. I even finished that Vinge novel mostly via text-to-speech, which was better than a badly narrated audiobook but worse than a good one. I still haven't finished the last 20-30 minutes of Windup Bird. I've got this thing lately where I save the endings of things I like, which is kind of new and weird.

After A Deepness in the Sky I started on a fantasy audiobook, Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. It had a novel and maybe-too-intricate magic system like the Mistborn books, but both the exposition and the dialogue got tedious at times, like the worst parts of the third Mistborn book. I stopped 1/3 of the way through and decided I was still in the mood for space opera, so I switched to the second Ringworld audiobook, which was a bit more pulp-adventure than the first but still a fun ride. When I went back to Warbreaker it was more palatable, but it's my least favorite of Sanderson's work that I've read. As I understand it he revised and re-released it at least once, so he wasn't that happy with it, either.

Now I'm listening to Ready Player One read by Wil Wheaton (which is funny, because Wheaton gets mentioned very flatteringly about halfway through the novel). Reviews suggested it's definitely flawed, but well worth the read, which sounds about right so far. There are some massive infodumps, mitigated by the fact that Wheaton reads them as if they're the most interesting thing in the world even if they're not. Some of the ideas have that 'futures past' feel of old books like 2001 A Space Odyssey or Neuromancer, even though RPO came out last summer. Still, there are some very cool ideas, too, and the central contrast of a near-future world dominated by the personality of an '80s-obsessed recluse stays pretty satisfying. I'd be interested to hear how many references in the book actually mean anything to 'millennials.' A lot of it is before my time, but I played me some Joust and Defender back in the day.

Hmm i just knew there must be a thread like this... finally found it

Currently i'm reading this:


Gotta buy the next chapter soon..