What are you reading or what do you recommend?
6Sill working my way through Return of the God Hypothesis: Three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe - by Stephen C. Meyer
Recently began reading Orthodoxy - by G.K. Chesterton.
Neither is what I would call easy reads but they definitely get you thinking.
Chesterton is public domain and is available through Project Gutenberg for free.
So what about you?
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I’m currently reading a nice internet post about some interesting books somebody read or is in the process of reading. They do sound interesting!
@therealjrn
Very meta…
Finished UnCultured by Daniella Mastyanek-Young, waiting for the release of the e-book for The Culting of America, same author.
Just finished IT by Stephen King. Great book, very long, some genuine heartwarming moments.
@Wollyhop One of his best books.
@Wollyhop @yakkoTDI I liked IT well enough - not my favorite King novel, but OK.
What really bugged me though was how he wrote several books with the same theme - unrelated space aliens wreaking spooky havoc in a New England hamlet. And even mentioned the alien elements of the other books within several of the stories! Lame…
@Wollyhop @yakkoTDI BTW, after taking a pass on several of King’s recent novels, I just finished reading his new anthology You Like It Darker.
Several of the stories in it (mostly the longer ones) were pretty good. IMO
@Wollyhop I haven’t read that since I was a kid. I love his books so much! I read the stand when I was in fourth grade and I was hooked. And yes I know I shouldn’t have been reading that kind of thing at that age but well insomnia.
@sillyheathen @Wollyhop Ever read any of Dean Koontz’s novels? I’ve come to prefer his books to King’s more recent ones.
Recently, I really liked the Jane Hawk series.
@macromeh @Wollyhop oh yes! I had many of his books before I moved to England. I haven’t read much of him lately but I did love his work as well. I have a very distinct memory of being on vacation in pompano beach. My parents had gone to a business convention and I was babysitting because I was a whopping 14 at the time. I was reading Watchers outside by the pool in the dead of night. They lived in a house on a golf course that backed onto a little airfield and it was super quiet. It just happened to coincide with a rather tense part of the book that a local dog showed up and started whining in the eeriest way. Gave me the heebie jeebies and I promptly went inside.
I mostly read fiction, the real world is already too real for me, and I really enjoyed the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. Well written. Fun if you’ve ever played a RPG, all the tropes are there.
Even after my “retirement” I’m finding it hard to get back into reading books on a regular basis. By the time I play around on this site then read the e-version of the local newspaper I’ve pissed away most of my morning and have plenty of other things to do.
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Most recent thing I’ve read was Final orbit by Chris Hadfield
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228347674-final-orbit
@Cerridwyn Chris Hadfield you say?
@therealjrn grin
he either writes very well or has a good ghost writer
Just finished Acid For The Children by Flea…interesting life…he barely touches on the RHCP but does talk about his close friendship with Anthony Kiedis.
And I just started a collection of shorts stories from Robert A. Heinlein.
@januarymick Ah, is RAH writing again?
My favorite short of his: And He Built a Crooked House.
@phendrick Haha! The old paperback that was passed on to me is called “6 x H” and And He Built a Crooked House is the last story in the collection
Working through the Throne of Glass series. Managed to get them all half off. Just finished the first three, Throne or glass, Crown of Midnight, Assassin’s Blade and starting on Heir of Fire. They’re well written and easy to read. Nothing life changing by any means but if you enjoy fiction/fantasy, I highly recommend them.
The Three Body problem
and
The Golden Compass