mega thread What book are you reading?

[The Kaeya Simp 13,988]

Currently reading... the Bible, actually

[Troblems 5,617]

I’m on #5 of 9 of a high fantasy series from Maria Snyder. The book I’m on is called Sea Glass. It’s fine, but it’s got a lot of romance, and I could do without that. Unfortunately a lot of books written for women, particularly in the adventure/fantasy genre all seem to have a romantic lead (or two) somewhere involved.

[Fluttershutter 2,398]

I've been wanting to read this Firefly book.

[Dark Horse 12,961]

I've decided to start reading through the saga of James Bond novels as written by Ian Fleming. Just finished with Casino Royale and I have to say I enjoyed it very much. There are a few things which remind you that this is very much a 50's period piece: Bond shamelessly holds a number of sexist and anti-semitic views, there's an overarching cloud of the Red Scare with most Eastern European characters portrated as cartoonishly villainous, and there's generally quite a bit of outdated phrasing in the narrative. These aren't necessarily faults as more simply observations for me, though. The story itself is still very gripping and obviously written with passion. Fleming seems to have really liked portraying the 'grandeur' of high-stakes gambling. He actually spends a whole chapter carefully explaining the rules of Baccarat. 

Funny enough, Bond himself is portrayed as much more gritty and troubled than the suave, sharp-witted agent he'd be known as later. He barely even does any "secret agent" work at all, and when he does try and chase down the bad guys, he's easily captured and subjected one of the most brutal torture scenes in literature. It can be quite jarring, but makes you want to keep reading. 

Overall, very impressed. Next up will be Live and Let Die, one of my favourite movies in the franchise. Let's see if the original novel holds up! 

[Oleks 1,993]

I'm currently reading His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. It expores a rather interesting concept: "What if dragons existed throughout history?". This particular novel is about dragons in the Napoleonic Wars period. Not bad so far.

[Cagey 4,248]

Once I get a mandatory book out of the way, I’m going to start reading A Better Man by Louise Penny. After that, I think I’ll pick up a low fantasy or two. 

[Lulaypp 2,555]

Reading Dracula. It isn't my favourite thing but far more interesting than I thought it would be. 

Other than that, I just finished The Magic Faraway Tree series and I love love it! 

Also had been reading alot of Robin (Tim Drake) comics. Currently reading other comics titles that are part of the Joker: Last Laugh storyline before going back to Robin. 

[Bastian 13,319]

Im reading "the Simarilion" by Tolkien, its a very complicated book but worth it.

[PoisonClaw 8,164]

The Mutants and Monsters Player's Handbook.

[Clawdeen 12,189]

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima

[StargazerDC 24]

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Interesting book about what we could call the father of computers. Most of the theoretical work for modern computers comes from him, also the idea and realization of a machine that could do several different jobs, imitate the human brain. A posteriori it seems nothing special but 70 years ago was revolutionary and visionary.
I'd suggest you this book if you are also interested in cryptanalysis and want to have a different point of view of the Second World War.

Edited January 3, 2020 by StargazerDC
forgot to mention the author

[Tropical Melody 6,031]

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple, set in Victoria, Australia. Very good cop-based whodunnit

 

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,440]

My Uncle’s book covering his time in Vietnam:

[Tao 7,526]

Beastars by  Paru Itagaki. 

[Oleks 1,993]

Rereading Animal Farm by George Orwell. It’s one of those stories I would recommend to everyone. Simply brilliant satire.

[Tropical Melody 6,031]

On 1/22/2020 at 9:32 PM, Oleks said:

Rereading Animal Farm by George Orwell. It’s one of those stories I would recommend to everyone. Simply brilliant satire.

It was a set book for English lit at my school. We went to see the film as well.

 

[Shigaraki 270]

Making Bombs for Hitler

[Oleks 1,993]

I finally did it. I started reading Fallout: Equestria. And I'm only 9 years late. After the first few chapters it seems pretty decent for a fanfic. And it's a fitting read while playing Fallout 4.

[Concerned Bystander 2,902]

Just finished reading 'Picking Up The Brass' by Eddie Nugent.  It's actually a collaboration between two guys, written in a semi-fictional style but based on their very real experience of going through army training and the early part of their careers.

Now reading 'Alien: The Cold Forge' by Alex White.  I'm a big fan of the Alien extended universe, it consistently produces better offerings than most of the recent films in the franchise.

[Rebel the Wolfgirl 5,601]

The works of Aleister Crowley.

[Bojo 1,172]

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, by Alan Watts. I don't read a lot but it definitely made it to my Top 3 list.

[Pentium100 2,120]

I recently finished "Chernobyl. How it happened?" by A. Dyatlov. It was really interesting, with quite a few points that other sources and the TV show did not show or showed differently. For example, he says in the book that there was no minimum limit on the reactor power, so running it at 200MW was in line with the rules. After the explosion, the rules were updated to include a lower limit of 700MW and the operators were accused of not following the rule that was not there at the time. I read the book in English (as I do not really understand Russian) and it seemed like the translation was done with Google Translate, but I like his style of writing.

[Tao 7,526]

Lancelot by 

Giles Kristian

[CatCat 1,118]

Rereading the Harry Potter series, I need to go get the sixth book from the library soon cause I need something to read again

[Dabmanz 2,139]

I have not started it yet but I am going to read the book Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony due to the fact it is the first form of media that uses the word alicorn to describe a horse with both wings and a horn. It is for this reason I am curious.

Edited February 24, 2020 by Dabmanz