What book(s) are you reading right now?

[highland145]

^^^
Harry Bosch, Charlie Parker, Agent Pendergast series.

 

[tynopik]

Anybody have recommendations for non-thinking fiction to read?

. . .

I've read the expanded Star Wars universe stuff as non-thinking fluff

they don't fluffier than Thomas DePrima's A Galaxy Unknown series (think honor harrington taken to the mary sue extreme, and then a bit further . . . and a bit farther still)

better quality is Evan Currie's Valkyrie Rising and Odyssey One series

Aer-ki Jyr's Star Force is also light, fun and bite-sized, currently at 57 novellas of a planned 100.

I have trouble recommending it because
a) it's a bit pricey unless you have alternate means of getting it
b) the writing and editing is baaad
c) the politics can be preachy and annoying
d) the plot holes are numerous and ginormous

but yet i still keep reading it because the story's that good, fwiw

Another worth checking out is Doug Dandridge's Empires at War series

More mainstream space sci-fi stuff is Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series and Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife series

 

[thedarkwolf]

Just finished book 6 of the Wheel of Time. Think I'm done. 950 pages about clothes and maybe 50 that actually advanced the plot a tiny bit.

 

[highland145]

Just finished book 6 of the Wheel of Time. Think I'm done. 950 pages about clothes and maybe 50 that actually advanced the plot a tiny bit.

I stopped with the book that started with the heroine in captivity and ended with her still there.

 

[ManyBeers]

Anybody have recommendations for non-thinking fiction to read? Wife and I just had a baby and don't have the willpower to think when I read, but would like something trashy to flip through for the next few weeks. Over the years - back a few years - I've read the expanded Star Wars universe stuff as non-thinking fluff. I dig spy thrillers a la Tom Clancy and read Lee Child's stuff. I tried some dude named Brad Thor, but he personal politics came out too much in the books and it annoyed me.

For the record, "The Count of Mote Cristo" is one of my all-time favorite books, but don't think I can push through Dumas between baby feedings right now.

Yes The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. Easy reads and the author has a sense of humor. Or the Myron Bolitar series by Harlen Coben.

 

[squarecut1]

Anybody have recommendations for non-thinking fiction to read? Wife and I just had a baby and don't have the willpower to think when I read, but would like something trashy to flip through for the next few weeks. Over the years - back a few years - I've read the expanded Star Wars universe stuff as non-thinking fluff. I dig spy thrillers a la Tom Clancy and read Lee Child's stuff. I tried some dude named Brad Thor, but he personal politics came out too much in the books and it annoyed me.

For the record, "The Count of Mote Cristo" is one of my all-time favorite books, but don't think I can push through Dumas between baby feedings right now.

Try Elmore Leonard. Get Shorty. Great fun book.

 

[tynopik]

for light, fun reading you can also try looking in the more juvenile section

Unaccompanied Minor by Hollis Gillespie has is an action/sorta spy/adventure story that keeps it light but is still interesting to adults

 

[inf1nity]

Got myselves a copy of brave new world after i read a passage from it in one of my college text books. My next semester includes Animal Farm by George Orwell, so bought a copy of it too.

Apart from that a friend has Dracula, which i am going to borrow once I am finished with Brave New World.

 

[MentalIlness]

Stephen King's Under The Dome

 

[Pheran]

Just finished book 6 of the Wheel of Time. Think I'm done. 950 pages about clothes and maybe 50 that actually advanced the plot a tiny bit.

I stopped with the book that started with the heroine in captivity and ended with her still there.

Reports like these are why I've never bothered reading this series.

 

[PeerNet]

Kahve Molası

 

[surfsatwerk]

I stopped with the book that started with the heroine in captivity and ended with her still there.

I finished the series on pure hate alone. I almost took a vow of illiteracy afterwards.

 

[highland145]

I finished the series on pure hate alone. I almost took a vow of illiteracy afterwards.

Well you came to the right place. Like some Turkey?:biggrin:

 

[akugami]

I stopped with the book that started with the heroine in captivity and ended with her still there.

Just find a cliff notes version of the rest of the books except the last 3 that Sanderson finished. Read the last 3, and done. Someone needed to give R.Jordan a swift kick in the rear because there was really a lot of fluff from book 4 onward that could have been removed and not impact the story one bit.

As for the ending, I know Sanderson based it off of what R.Jordan wrote, but it felt so rushed and anti-clamatic. I didn't have a problem with the general premise of the ending, but there was so much action and not enough time to absorb it. The other issue are some plot lines that never get resolved.

Some things that bothered me.

Spoiler

Was there a reason for Faile to get kidnapped? You spent nearly a full WOT book worth of text on that side plot on this for what? Logain was built up to be integral and he would rise to glory. I felt his conclusion was anti-clamatic. And what the fuck happened to the Aiel?!? Did they avert the premonitions of doom? I could go on.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Reports like these are why I've never bothered reading this series.

Do yourself a favor and read malazan book of the fallen if you like epic fantasy series.

I'm about 5 books in to the ten book series and its infinitely better than wheel of time was.

 

[Pheran]

Do yourself a favor and read malazan book of the fallen if you like epic fantasy series.

I'm about 5 books in to the ten book series and its infinitely better than wheel of time was.

I've read the first book. I'm planning on reading the whole thing, I just haven't gotten to it yet.

 

[squarecut1]

Got myselves a copy of brave new world after i read a passage from it in one of my college text books. My next semester includes Animal Farm by George Orwell, so bought a copy of it too.

Apart from that a friend has Dracula, which i am going to borrow once I am finished with Brave New World.

Animal Farm is such an insightful commentary on one particular aspect of human nature

 

[Albatross]

The Martian

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Bill Bryson's "Notes From a Small Island," a travelogue of his adventures touring Great Britain. I like Bryson as an author, but this is probably my least favorite of his books. Granted, it does still make me want to visit England, but I feel like if you haven't been there, this book loses something through the lack of shared experience. Then again, I haven't been to Europe and I really enjoyed his book "Neither Here nor There," so maybe Britain's just not as great for travel writing.

 

[dbk]

CMBOK, 4th edition.

 

[pyonir]

Bill Bryson's "Notes From a Small Island," a travelogue of his adventures touring Great Britain. I like Bryson as an author, but this is probably my least favorite of his books. Granted, it does still make me want to visit England, but I feel like if you haven't been there, this book loses something through the lack of shared experience. Then again, I haven't been to Europe and I really enjoyed his book "Neither Here nor There," so maybe Britain's just not as great for travel writing.

Have you read "At Home" yet? I'm having a hell of a time finishing that book. It gets so dull sometimes. I liked "A Walk in the Woods" and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" but I think "At Home" will be the last book of his I read.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Have you read "At Home" yet? I'm having a hell of a time finishing that book. It gets so dull sometimes. I liked "A Walk in the Woods" and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" but I think "At Home" will be the last book of his I read.

I loved "At Home." It gets down into the microcosms of the most trivial things, so I can understand not enjoying it, but I loved reading about the history behind the minutiae of homes in general, and particularly in relation to Britain/Europe. I found it strangely fascinating. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is one of my favorite books of all time; it's what introduced me to Bryson as an author, and it's just brilliant. Imagine my surprise when I found out the author wasn't a classically trained scientist, but a travel writer.

 

[Brainonska511]

I just finished Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. "The Stormlight Archive" looks like it could be another great series, much like the Wheel of Time was (hopefully, not getting bogged down in the nitty-gritty 80000 stories like Robert Jordan did).

Don't get me wrong, I loved the Wheel of Time series, but some of those books in the middle, where only one or two days actually elapsed were pretty trying. Too many characters to follow at that point and not enough plot/timeline advancement.

 

[highland145]

One that I read 10+ years ago. I've read exactly 1 Tami Hoag book in my life and I remember it being O.K. The other week, nothing was catching my eye so I picked up one of hers. A few pages in and I'm thinking this is familiar. By the end of the 1st chapter, I'm convinced. Check the copyright date...2013. Re-published from 2000. Assholes.

 

[Babbles]

they don't fluffier than Thomas DePrima's A Galaxy Unknown series (think honor harrington taken to the mary sue extreme, and then a bit further . . . and a bit farther still)

better quality is Evan Currie's Valkyrie Rising and Odyssey One series

Aer-ki Jyr's Star Force is also light, fun and bite-sized, currently at 57 novellas of a planned 100.

I have trouble recommending it because
a) it's a bit pricey unless you have alternate means of getting it
b) the writing and editing is baaad
c) the politics can be preachy and annoying
d) the plot holes are numerous and ginormous

but yet i still keep reading it because the story's that good, fwiw

Another worth checking out is Doug Dandridge's Empires at War series

More mainstream space sci-fi stuff is Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series and Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife series

Thanks for the recommendations.

I picked up Jack Campbell's "Lost Fleet" series and I enjoy it well enough. It is surprisingly pretty good and actually has a few 'thinking man' points in it. Not bad sci-fi fluff read.