Currently reading the last book of the English translation of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past/Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin. It’s the first translation of Chinese sci-fi I’ve come across and I must say it’s pretty damn good.
@Mortlake I Am Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne’s autobiography, is worth the read too.
And now for something completely different:
“Der Zauberberg” by Thomas Mann. I’m after first chapter.
Yoss, reading the Three Body Problem too atm.
Just re-reading my Neal Asher collection - sci-fi as good as the Culture IMHO. If you like sci-fi and you haven’t read Neal Asher, start with Gridlinked and become a fan !
Just finished first Iron Warrior and Ultramarine omnibus by Graham McNeill
Read The 13 and 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear to my boys. A very difficult and fun book to read out loud. We started next and Halfway through both Dragon Rider, cornelia funke and The Book of Knights, by Ives Meynard. They like the first one more so far, but I favor BoK’s. Reminds me of Gene Wolfe’s, The Wizard Knight. My absolutely favorite fantasy book.
Started Mother Angelica autobiography, by Raymond Arroyo. Will be starting the 2nd book about her grand silence when I’m done with this one.
Thought I’d share a humble bundle deal I also picked up for Warhammer Horus Heresy audiobooks. 15 days left on it as of this writing. Most of these I’ve already read in print, but I was glad to have picked up the Garro audiodramas, which was a deal in itself. Enjoy.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/voices-heresy-black-library-books
To Inherit the Stars - James P. Hogan
Mein Kampf. I mean uh. Something appropriate and ordinary. Atlas Shrugged? Yeah, let’s go with that.
Diablo Archive: Legacy of Blood; The Black Road; The Kingdom of Shadow; Demonsbane
4 books in 1, 739 pages total.
Currently in the beginning of the first book, Legacy of Blood.
I took a long break from reading. I wish I hadn’t, but sometimes a person gets caught up in real-life’s hustle and bustle. Not this time.
I’m determined to finish Colonel Roosevelt.
I’ll also finish reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett.
The book satirizes rock and roll.
I finished reading Soul Music. As I said before: it satirizes rock and roll. I’m not that into music sector(I listen to whatever I like). I only got 3/5 of the references.
I am still reading Colonel Roosevelt. It’s a 1000 page book and I’m a slow reader when it comes to non-fiction. This is not “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” that I can read 450+ pages in a day.
I started The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. It is a novella of 200 pages, romance and it is easy to read. I read 25% of the book in 2 days. The book also has a movie adaptation which I haven’t watched but I know the main characters are played by Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. I imagine them in my mind accordingly.
After finishing it I ponder on reading some Sci-Fi. I don’t know if Isaac Asimov’s foundation series is easy to read. Can anyone confirm whether it is easy to read or not? In the OP I wrote that I’m juggling with it but that was technically not correct. I have only read 1 page after the intro and didn’t get enough gist of it to judge its readability.
Currently reading H. Rider Haggard’s Wisdom’s Daughter - his fourth book about Ayesha, She Who Must Be Obeyed.
The first book, She is a classic of Imperial Lost World fiction, which has influenced a huge number of other authors and become one of the most filmed books of all time. It is what it is, a late 18th Century adventure story, but the ideas and the concept (an immortal all powerful woman waiting for her lost lover to return) is in many respect genius.
Ayesha continues the story and wraps things quite nicely without telling you anything about who She really is. Allan and She overlaps her story with that of Allan Quartermain, one of Haggard’s other great characters and feels a little superfluous. Wisdom’s Daughter is then Ayesha telling her own story of her life in Egypt, but by this point you really don’t know if She really is who or what She claims to be.
Star that has Fallen.
Definitely products of their time, but none the worse for that. And while Haggard had more sympathy for African affairs than many writers of the period they do have a very British Empire view of the world.
Foundation series is very easy to pick up. The premise of the entire book opens up pretty early so you are not grasping at all. Let us know how you like it.
This reminds me of Song of Songs, and some other passages that talk of the woman that dwelt in the desert for some time. That always reminds me of Egyptology too. Recently reread The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep.
Started Hammers Slammers by David Drake and some rando gift book Out of my mind, S. Draper for the boys. For myself I started Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). I wanted to paste an excerpt. I’m not usually floored by writing, but I was and continue to be impressed greatly by Lawrence’ style and I think it serves as an excellent introduction and example to what you can expect if you’re interested.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T. E. Lawrence)
They were a people of starts, for whom the abstract was the strongest motive, the process of infinite courage and variety, and the end nothing. They were as unstable as water, and like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coasts of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed, and some day, ages yet, might roll unchecked over the place where the material world had been, and God would move upon the face of those waters. One such wave (and not the least) I raised and rolled before the breath of an idea, till it reached its crest, and toppled over and fell at Damascus. The wash of that wave, thrown back by the resistance of vested things, will provide the matter of the following wave, when in fullness of time the sea shall be raised once more.
Anything by Drake is gold, but you’ll find he reuses a lot of his characters and themes. Try “The General” series and then compare it to the “Belisarius” series, they’re basically the same story, same characters. The stuff he does with co-authors is pretty good. I’m a big fan of that era of science fiction.
Nothing beats Gene Wolfe in science fiction. It’s like tech plays a background role for the psychological themes that unfold.
I finished reading The Bridges of Madison County. It was a really, really sad book(the ending).
I have several options reduced to two now:
I may go with Limitless first, then Foundation. But before that I’ll read HHGTTG’s third book: Life, the Universe and Everything
I’m digging through old boxes and re-reading the old Destroyer series. It’s blatant pulp, but great pulp.
The Elder Empire series by Will Wight. Such a fun read cool concept. Each novel comes out as a pair, written from the perspectives of the main protagonist and antagonist. Although, which is which is up to your personal preference.
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I’m bumping the thread so it doesn’t get locked.
Btw I’m reading the Medical Medium books these days.