I'm currently on book 5 of the Hitchhiker trilogy. Some people seem to actively dislike the fifth book but I don't mind it so far.
Just finished Perturabo a few days ago.
It got really sad and tragic near the end.
About to start the latest book in The Expanse series Persopolis Rising.
Hopefully this will be less annoying than some of the previous books and FINALLY explore the lingering questions and mystery that have been frustratingly teased across the series as a whole.
Currently reading Norse Mythology it's really good, Wasn't ready for the amount of humor it offers but it's all good.
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American Gods.
Had it for ages, slowly getting through it. I just can't keep focused on reading lately.
Currently reading through the Dresden Files series, on book 2 right now.
It's pretty interesting so far, lots of sarcasm, sardonic humor whilst being grounded amongst the supernatural. The characters are believable and well written so far.
Also it isn't para-porn like a good chunk of urban fantasy is (e.g. Any sweep-me-off-my-feet vampire bullshit).
Impure Blood
It's actually mandatory as part of school curriculum, but it's a good book
Read through the first book of the Witcher series last month, Blood of Elves. Found it hard to get into the flow of reading this, don't know whether it's due to the translation or what, but it turned out to be a pretty good read. Hoping to pick up the next few books in the series soon.
Started reading through Rise of Nagash from the old world of Warhammer Fantasy at the start of this month, really digging it. Didn't know WHFB had such an extensive range of lore and it's sorta sad that Games Workshop just got rid of it all and started from fresh a few years ago.
go back and read the short story collections first.
The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny.
I read the two short story collections, then tried reading Blood of Elves. My god, the first few pages are just overly descriptive to talk about someone performing at a bar. It just goes on and on and on.
Started going through the Expanse books after watching the series; the books are way better from what little I've read so far.
Coming up on halfway through Caliban's War.
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I've been thinking of getting Sartre's "Nausea",heard it's similar to Camus' "The Stranger" which is one of my,if not the,favourite book I've read.
Would have been pretty boring without learning about the world the characters inhabit. The argument between Dandelion's listeners is fantastic tbh, helps show Geralt and Ciri's fame, and what happens to Dandelion sets up the rest of the plot for the book.
I've been listening to Disaster Artist recently. It's really entertaining.
Leviathan Wakes is still the stand out in the series to me so far (Miller's such a fucking good character). They're all really solid (well, from what I've read so far), though. I liked Cibola Burn better than most people, apparently.
I'm currently at the start of Nemesis Games.
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And I'm also reading Sapiens.
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Absolutely loving this, getting great insight. It goes very hardcore on the classic Freudian style though, but I'm reading it as setting extremes for the spectrum of disorders, with the implication that there's obviously inbetweens and variations. On the topic of depression it went very rough that there's only two types (introjective and anaclitic), describing the two types and what the common causes are, but it never really goes into how it can be varied or mixed.
Yeah it's been ages since I've found a nice long book series that I've enjoyed this much, both Miller and Holden are great characters and the show did not do them justice (it was close mind).
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Synopsis
In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet.
I've been getting interested in Chomsky's philosophy lately. This is a fun bit of light reading, but it's not really what I was looking for. I guess I'll want to read one of his older, more theoretical books next. Any recommendations?
I've been stockpiling books to read throughout this year and the next. For now I'm reading these three below. I felt I read too much sci-fi and wanted to widen my views.
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You know Psychoanalysis is pseudo-science right?
Freud's original perception & execution of it was extremely pseudo-scientific, yes, but methods derived from his ideas are very relevant in modern psychology & cognitive therapy.
In January I read Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
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It's a book about a guy with a severe learning disability, who undergoes a procedure to increase his intelligence. The book is in the style of a journal, chapters referring to his individual diary entries. I can't really explain why without spoiling it, but this quickly became my favourite book of all time. I would recommend it to anyone.
In February, I read Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
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A great book, though you probably have heard all the good bits in the news. It explains in detail how Trump's own staff try to manage working with him, both trying to pander to his good side with flattery while evading his more petulant, nasty side
March's book is How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
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Too early to review fully yet.
I've been off and on reading Gravity's Rainbow which is like a Jackson Pollock painting put into words. I really like it though.
De Architectura and a pilots license guide book.
Flowers for Algernon is one of my favourite books as well. Was quite an emotional ride.
Finally got around to getting a bookshelf in my new apartment, so I figured I'd use it as an opportunity to share my collection thus far:
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Packing and then unpacking all this made me realize just how much of my collection is comprised of memoirs and history books.
Der Zauberberg (English: The Magic Mountain) by Thomas Mann
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It's in pre-spelling-reform German so it's a slow read for me (German's not my first language), but I intend to finish it someday.
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Just started on this one, not too sure how I like the start-up of it. But it's one of those books that I hear so many people recommend that I should probably keep reading.
I recently read Migraine by Woshibai after randomly finding his tumblr:
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It's not quite the same genre as most of the comics posted online (It's autobiographical.), but it still felt similar and was interesting.
Funnily enough the reason I found some time to read it was that I had a bad migraine that was slowly fading at that point.
Note that due to the format, it's one panel per page. There's a (spoilery) review here, though if you like the comics on Tumblr you'd probably enjoy this. Note that it's one panel a page.
For work I'm (on and off) reading Programming Scala, 2nd Edition from the recent Humble Book Bundle: Functional Programming by O'Reilly:
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It's a very (and in my opinion unnecessarily) messy programming language full of workarounds and special cases to make it compatible with existing Java systems, while inheriting most JVM flaws and hiding others in ways that (due to superficially being being indistinguishable from more efficient programming) implicitly burn through processing cycles. Overall, I strongly recommend against using it yourself.
However, if you have to work with Scala, this book offers a very good introduction to the language itself (but not to programming. You should be decent at that and probably have some Java experience and experience with better functional programming languages already).
Have anyone read "Future" from the author of the Metro Series? Iv'e seen it in stores but haven't picked it up since I had a bit of hard time getting in to the metro books even if I find the setting cool/interesting.
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Call me a nerd, I like me some good lore.
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