What are you reading now?

[Aqua Letifer]

Didn't so much read this one as listen to it, but it was quite a hoot. It's a mishmash of roughly the following:

• You wrap a wire around an iron nail and run a current through the wire, you can create an electromagnet. This works because there's a current running through the wire. Okay, so, instead of a wire, say you have a highway. And instead of a current of electrons you have a constant stream of souls with the power of free will, passing by other free-willed souls who are stationary on the side of the highway. This creates a kind of spiritual current, a kind of electromagnetism between our world and the afterlife.
• Daedalus isn't dead, he's just been busy elsewhere.
• The Minotaur is a place, not just a thing.

Seriously fun sci-fi. I was happy to learn that Powers follows a writing method similar to Ray Bradbury. Makes sense, too, when you compare how the plots of both writers unwind. There's a lot of "dream logic" going on.

[Klaus]

I haven't read a real novel in a long time, maybe decades. I read this one in two days (the original German version).

It was quite cool and inspiring. I had almost forgotten what it feels to read a novel and how to emphasise with its characters. This one was rather tear-inducing in some places (cried like a baby) but also strangely fulfilling.

This is a book about how we are shaped by our past, about what family is, about love. It's all super-relatable. Great book!

[George K]

I'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.

So....

[Renauda]

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27109827

[Copper]

I have been looking at textbooks lately.

There is not really a degree in the book. But that would have advantages over some school-bought degrees.

[George K]

@George-K said in What are you reading now?:

'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.

Ahhh...screw it.

Time to reread "The Shining."

Interesting to see how his style has changed, and yet, remained the same over the last 40-plus years.

[Aqua Letifer]

This is excellent.

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.

[Copper]

Got book #2 (WW II) in the 4-book series for Christmas.

I still have to finish book #1 - West Point History of the Civil War.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.

I read the first three books, probably, 40 years ago. I re-read "Dune" twice, the last time about 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it. I suppose I should do the next two, but I'm not in a messianic mood.

However, if you like good, hard, sci-fi, the "prequels" written by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin Anderson are fun. The give the whole backstory of the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, the origin of the Mentats, Bene Geserit, "folding space," and all that.

They get a lot of criticism for not being Frank's work, and "simplistic." Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. I believe @LuFins-Dad has read them as well.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:

I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm

My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.

The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.

I read the first three books, probably, 40 years ago. I re-read "Dune" twice, the last time about 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it. I suppose I should do the next two, but I'm not in a messianic mood.

However, if you like good, hard, sci-fi, the "prequels" written by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin Anderson are fun. The give the whole backstory of the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, the origin of the Mentats, Bene Geserit, "folding space," and all that.

They get a lot of criticism for not being Frank's work, and "simplistic." Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. I believe @LuFins-Dad has read them as well.

His son made a graphic novel version of the first book.

Is awesome.

[bachophile]

on the shelf in the office next door to mine.

Bathroom reading I guess

[Doctor Phibes]

Is there a graphic novel version available for these?

[jon-nyc]

Or even a YouTube short?

[taiwan_girl]

On my trip, I read "Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August"

A very easy read. Basically, it looked at everyday life in Berlin during the 1936 Olympics. Focussed on ordinary citizens, a restaurant/bar owner, etc. Not too in depth, but kept my attention. A quick history lesson, or at least history background.

[Horace]

This book did its job as literature. It gives solid perspectives on some eternal human questions. It's not the engrossing story of Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men though.

[Jolly]

[bachophile]