Hey Beehaw, whatcha reading right now?

  • scoobford@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    The Murderbot Diaries.

    I’ve been enjoying it, it has a surprising amount of heart for a series about an emotionally damaged not-robot.

    • IndeterminateName@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I was put off by the pricing on these. Full price for novella length. I really enjoyed the first one, I’ll grab the rest if they go on sale

  • Duchess@yiffit.net
    2·
    1 year ago

    do comic books count? i just started reading DCeased. otherwise i’ve finally cracked open Lolita, it’s an interesting but disgusting read.

  • DJDarren@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    My current read is Abarat by Clive Barker.

    I’d not heard of it until last week, when folks on r/books were singing its praises in a thread, so figured I’d give it a shot. Yeah, it’s enjoyable. Definitely aimed squarely at the middle of the YA crowd, but it’s an easy read at a time when my brain isn’t letting me really get into any books.

  • rancidity9480@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have 2 going right now:

    • Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
    • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

    Snow Crash is good, but IDK. It just isn’t pulling me in the way I expected it to, so it’s taking me too long to get through.

    Then I have some Jack Reacher novel on my bedside table waiting to be started, and I was just eyeballing a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories on my shelf.

  • Scevola@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m halfway into “Guards! Guards!” by Pratchett. My first story of his, and I’m having so much fun!

    • DJDarren@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Once you’ve read that, get a copy of Nightwatch. Much the same cast of characters, but it’s widely considered to be Terry’s magnum opus. That book is a damn work of art.

      #GNUTerryPratchett

      • Scevola@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I already have planned to read the whole night watch saga. Then I’ll see what other side of the Discworld to move on to

  • GreyShuck@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    My ‘big read’ this year is Finnegans Wake - which I am (or have been) reading week by week along with the TrueLit sub on reddit. It would be a profoundly different experience to read it without the analysis and discussion going on there, so that is something…

    Otherwise, I am reading The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, which is engaging and entertaining, as was her The Hollow Places which I read immediately before. I am also dipping into a collection of the Para Handy tales by Neil Munro, which are a cosy - if stereotypical and patronising - glimpse into another time and pace of life.

    I have just returned from a couple of weeks away during which I finished an anthology of Clarke Ashton Smith short fantasy tales (all about the atmosphere: story and worldbuilding are very much secondary and character scarcely features); Haldor Laxness’s The Atom Station (a sparse look at the clash of modern - written in 1948 - and traditional Icelandic values); and Blackwood’s The Willows (an extrapolation of the original idea of “panic” - as several of this other tales are).

  • GooseDwarf@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m currently reading through Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I’m a fan of SciFi, and cyberpunk especially. This book was on my reading list, and I decided to pick it up while in the bookstore the other day.

    So far I’m really enjoying it. It feels a bit more pulpy than some of the other cyberpunk classics such as Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but that’s not a bad thing. It certainly doesn’t take away from the entertainment in my opinion. Not every book needs to have a grand philosophy behind it.

    • drowned Phoenician@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I guess I should finally read Snow Crash, but other books keep getting in the way. I just finished Neuromancer which surprised me with how well written it was. No idea why, but I expected the classics to be more … exhausting.

  • Ninefingers@lemmy.one
    1·
    1 year ago

    I finally managed to read through Gardens of the Moon recently which I really liked, so now I’m on to Deadhouse Gates.

  • lunasloth@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I usually have a print/ebook and an audio book (for the car) going at the same time.

    For print book, currently reading Crooked Kingdom, one of the books in the Grishaverse series/world. I, uh, got a little obsessed after watching the first season of Shadow and Bone a year or two ago.

    For audiobook, currently listening to Children of Ruin. Not too far into it yet, but I loved loved loved Children of Time (also listened to the audiobook version), so I’m excited to see where this one goes.

    • lamentforicarus@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I really want to read Children of Time. I actually did start it and got half way through, but I have such an intense arachnophobia that I had to give up because I kept dreaming of spiders and waking up terrified. I enjoyed his writing style, though, and am curious about his new trilogy coming out.