Hey Beehaw, whatcha reading right now?

    • IAmNoJedi@lemmy.one
      1·
      2 years ago

      I read this so many times that my hardback copy started breaking. You know how the edges of the outer cover about 2/3 of the way down start getting fuzzy from being held when you’ve taken off the dust jacket? Almost fuzzy enough to make into a rope for escaping from a tower.

  • altz3r0@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.

    Gibson is tough to get into, personally, but his stories are very cool!

  • Ninefingers@lemmy.one
    4·
    2 years ago

    I finally managed to read through Gardens of the Moon recently which I really liked, so now I’m on to Deadhouse Gates.

  • PotentiallyAnApricot@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    The Two Towers. I’ve been needing to read more slowly in the past few years for health reasons, and I am finding lotr just so perfect for that. The nature descriptions are absolutely to die for.

  • scoobford@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    The Murderbot Diaries.

    I’ve been enjoying it, it has a surprising amount of heart for a series about an emotionally damaged not-robot.

    • IndeterminateName@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      I was put off by the pricing on these. Full price for novella length. I really enjoyed the first one, I’ll grab the rest if they go on sale

  • DJDarren@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    My current read is Abarat by Clive Barker.

    I’d not heard of it until last week, when folks on r/books were singing its praises in a thread, so figured I’d give it a shot. Yeah, it’s enjoyable. Definitely aimed squarely at the middle of the YA crowd, but it’s an easy read at a time when my brain isn’t letting me really get into any books.

    • Frenchpress_Hellyes@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      Barker has a fascinating imagination. I finished Coldheart canyon recently. I almost walked away repulsed many times but there was good story under all his signature flair. After Imajica I will try to read anything he writes.

  • GreyShuck@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    My ‘big read’ this year is Finnegans Wake - which I am (or have been) reading week by week along with the TrueLit sub on reddit. It would be a profoundly different experience to read it without the analysis and discussion going on there, so that is something…

    Otherwise, I am reading The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, which is engaging and entertaining, as was her The Hollow Places which I read immediately before. I am also dipping into a collection of the Para Handy tales by Neil Munro, which are a cosy - if stereotypical and patronising - glimpse into another time and pace of life.

    I have just returned from a couple of weeks away during which I finished an anthology of Clarke Ashton Smith short fantasy tales (all about the atmosphere: story and worldbuilding are very much secondary and character scarcely features); Haldor Laxness’s The Atom Station (a sparse look at the clash of modern - written in 1948 - and traditional Icelandic values); and Blackwood’s The Willows (an extrapolation of the original idea of “panic” - as several of this other tales are).

  • GooseDwarf@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m currently reading through Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I’m a fan of SciFi, and cyberpunk especially. This book was on my reading list, and I decided to pick it up while in the bookstore the other day.

    So far I’m really enjoying it. It feels a bit more pulpy than some of the other cyberpunk classics such as Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but that’s not a bad thing. It certainly doesn’t take away from the entertainment in my opinion. Not every book needs to have a grand philosophy behind it.

    • drowned Phoenician@feddit.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      I guess I should finally read Snow Crash, but other books keep getting in the way. I just finished Neuromancer which surprised me with how well written it was. No idea why, but I expected the classics to be more … exhausting.

  • altz3r0@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    Finally finished with Pattern Recognition, William Gibson. It was… nice, it definitely felt like Gibson was uncomfortable writing in the present tense.

    Next up is a Brazillian book, As águas-vivas não sabem de si by Aline Valek

  • Empyrean@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I just started reading the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. I am loving the dry humour and the perfect snapshot of London. It took me entirely too long to get to these due to going through an urban fantasy burnout, so I’m pleased I have so much to look forward to.