What book(s) are you reading right now?

[JujuFish]

I've been into audio books as late. I love being able to 2X the speed so I can learn at a faster clip.

Having listened to audiobooks at 2x, I tried doing that with video to see if I could super-binge a TV series and it just didn't work as well, sadly.

 

[DainBramaged]

You might like watching this TED Talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJv0TEcLapg

Yeah, Perel is amazing. I like everything of hers. I like the books because I'm more likely to read than watch, but also, her notes sections lead to plethora other amazing resources. Don't know if you're a Perel fan, or interested in the topic, but have you ever read Mating in Captivity, also by her?

 

[Thebobo]

On the 6th book of the Expanse series. Shit got real. Excellent read, looking forward to the 4th and more on Amazon.

 

[Muse]

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi

It's over 20 years old, but still timely. Makes the case that feminism is an ongoing battle, and no case for victory can be made. The Equal Rights Amendment failed and much in the movement has been coopted all along. In many ways, very little has been accomplished and the backlash is devilish, to put it mildly.

 

[Brainonska511]

Just finished off Love in the Time of Cholera, by Márquez. It was good, but it was a bit dense.

Now I'm on The Shining, by Stephen King.

 

[db]

The Hardware Hacker: Adventures In Making and Breaking Hardware by Andrew Bunnie Huang.
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

 

[clamum]

"Kingsbridge" series by Ken Follett (on the second book now, World Without End). Just as awesome as The Century trilogy; I can't put them down. This book was made into a mini-series some years back and it's on Amazon Prime Video now. It's definitely a little different than the book but I think it's overall mostly true to it, on the main points. I thought it was decent but of course they had to leave out a lot of things.

Audiobook in car is Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-1945. By MAH BOY Max Hastings. Typically great just like all his other work. I ended up giving up on the Extinction Cycle series somewhere in the second book. I started off really pleased with it but I dunno, I just lost interest. I can do that pretty easily on things (books/movies/games) though so I can't really say it was a horrible series.

After I finish World Without End I'm really looking forward to CJ Chivers' new book, The Fighters. "The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of war as lived by six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a scout helicopter pilot, a grunt, an infantry officer, and a Special Forces sergeant." I loved his book on the history, development, impact of the Kalashnikov rifle, The Gun, so I'm sure I'll love this one too. I just learned about his new book last week, he was a guest on someone's show/podcast, and I almost pooped myself in glee.

 

[thebestMAX]

A freebee from the frugal librarian, The Nero Prediction. A guilty pleasure of escapist historical fiction. Interesting so far.

 

[Thebobo]

All Systems Red - from the Martha Wells series - The Murderbot Diaries
8/10 - Audiobook from my local library.

While waiting for the next expanse book I was looking for some Sci-Fi and stumbled on this little gem All Systems Red from the Martha Wells series The Murderbot Diaries. Took me awhile to get into listing to the narrators voice but about almost done and it's perfect. The story is told from a neurotic malfunctioning "death bot" its quirky sad and funny.

 

[clamum]

I was listening to something this weekend, I thought it was Joe Rogan's appearance on Shapiro's Saturday show (I don't think it was from this weekend, a previous weekend) and Rogan mentioned, I think, Sylverster Stallone's autobiography. But I looked a bit and didn't see where he wrote one. The only one I see is a biography from 1998 (this was on Amazon).

 

[ultimatebob]

I'm currently reading "Turn The Ship Around" for work. It's basically a management book that teaches managers to let their employees manage themselves instead of micromanaging them.

It's a great idea in theory, but I've found that some employees really suck at managing themselves. Maybe I'm just supposed to fire those people, the book isn't clear on this

 

[FerrelGeek]

I'm reading through the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Currently on White Knight.

 

[lxskllr]

The Fundamentals of General Tree Work

https://www.educatedclimber.com/beranek-fundamentals/

 

[Pheran]

I'm reading through the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Currently on White Knight.

I'm also reading that, but I'm back on Summer Knight. Enjoying it so far, though I don't think I'm going to read the whole thing right now. I have books 1-6. Can you recommend a good stopping point? It does seems like the series has been building up to something.

EDIT: Looked around a bit online and some people are saying that book 12 is a good stopping point. That's kind of farther than I wanted to go right now, but we'll see.

 

[Thebobo]

The Expanse book one 8/10

 

[lxskllr]

The Hidden Life of Trees

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-...37987413&sr=1-1&keywords=hidden+life+of+trees

 

[shortylickens]

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Better known as Fanny Hill.

 

[spacejamz]

Origin - Dan Brown

the novelty of the Davinci Code and Angels and Demons seems to be wearing off a bit...doesn't seem to be as suspenseful either....

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Fear by Bob Woodward. So far about halfway through and it's a little underwhelming. Maybe it would have been a better read in a different era when we were not subjected to the inner workings or dysfunction of the White House in every news cycle. Not a single word of it is new, groundbreaking or all that interesting. It's mostly a more concise summation of stories we've already heard a dozen times. I can't think of a single sentence that made me think "Wow! It's worse than reported" or "I had not heard that before...". Mostly it paints a picture of things that are about as bad as expected and if anything less idiotic than the more strident left-wing pundits want them to be.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Expeditionary Force sci-fi series first book being Columbus Day
I'm not a big sci-fi reader but have to find something to read using Kindle Unlimited and these sounded interesting. I'm on book 4 of 6. The first 3 books were save the Earth stories and that along with the insulting super intelligent AI that has to constantly rely on stupid humans to come up with plans starts getting old by book 3. The 4th book at least isn't another save the Earth story.

 

[DigDog]

Origin - Dan Brown

the novelty of the Davinci Code and Angels and Demons seems to be wearing off a bit...doesn't seem to be as suspenseful either....

You could try reading the novel that Brown stole THE ENTIRE PLOT from, Focault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco.

 

[Malogeek]

Salvation by Peter Hamilton, my favorite author. New series for him, who is famous for his space operas set in the Commonwealth.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

You could try reading the novel that Brown stole THE ENTIRE PLOT from, Focault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco.

"TRY" being the operative word. Nobody actually gets through Foucault's Pendulum.

And the Davinci Code was plagiarized from Foucault. Origin was supposedly plagiarized from The Vatican Boys by Jack Dunn who also sued Brown for supposedly stealing some parts of The DaVinci Code from him. Brown is like Led Zeppelin, he gets his "inspiration" from many previously published sources.

Or maybe it was Angels & Demons. Pretty much every time Dan Brown publishes another book Jack Dunn sues him for stealing from The Vatican Boys.

 

[Mai72]

Having listened to audiobooks at 2x, I tried doing that with video to see if I could super-binge a TV series and it just didn't work as well, sadly.

Well that's because when you're watching TV you are in passive mode. It's meant to be enjoyable. When I'm listening to a book at 2X or whatever, I'm actively pulling info out and taking notes.

 

[DigDog]

"TRY" being the operative word. Nobody actually gets through Foucault's Pendulum.

And the Davinci Code was plagiarized from Foucault. Origin was supposedly plagiarized from The Vatican Boys by Jack Dunn who also sued Brown for supposedly stealing some parts of The DaVinci Code from him. Brown is like Led Zeppelin, he gets his "inspiration" from many previously published sources.

Or maybe it was Angels & Demons. Pretty much every time Dan Brown publishes another book Jack Dunn sues him for stealing from The Vatican Boys.

Wow.
You sir are .. correct.