What are you currently reading?

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boji

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Inspired by peccary's Now Playing thread, I figured we could talk books too.

I'm in the middle of Ken Liu's The Hidden Girl and Other Stories and it's quite good. A bit too concept driven maybe (sometimes characters feel like they are a little shoehorned into the story), but still very enjoyable sci-fi.
 
Shutter Island. Started that last night. Finished the Man with the Golden Gun yesterday (James Bond). I read in bed while my wife tries to sleep. We go to bed early
 
Dark Matter. A sci-fi book, that's a page-turner.

I previously read a book by the same author called Recursion (a time travel one).
 
I just finished The Evening and The Morning by Ken Follett, which was a *fantastic* book. It is the prequel to The Pillars of The Earth which is a *phenomenal* book. The entire Pillars series is worthwhile but those are my two favorite.

My dad introduced me to the series with Pillars and when I asked him what it was about he's like "Oh, it's about this guy building a cathedral in the 12th century." Me: "Crickets...."

But it turned out to be a page turner from the get-go. I mean, at least if you're some kind of weirdo who liked historical fiction.

I'm back in my office this week for the first time in about a year and a half and needed something to pass the time here so I started reading The Idiot again yesterday since it's probably been a decade since I read it last. I've read most of Dostoyevsky's novels and he's one of my favorite authors.
 
Just finished Paul Auster’s Brooklyn Follies (French translation) last night and about to start Taqawan by Éric Plamondon.
I recommend the 1984 trilogy by Plamondon (which has been translated in English).
 
No literature at the moment— just textbook-type stuff. I’ve got a copy of ‘General Music Theory: Speech-Based Model’ by Michael Andristopoulos on the way via my library, which as I understand it, is a book about how the most fundamental concepts of music theory directly parallel the linguistic patterns that are coded in early adolescent speech development.

I also have a copy of ‘Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer’, which is former-King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford’s PHD dissertation reformatted for public sale, sitting on my desk. As I understand it, it’s a pretty heady read about the psychology of creativity and improvisation in drummers within the confines of pop-format music though, and drums are the one area of music that’s like a foreign language to me, so I’m trying to learn a bit more how to think as a percussionist before I delve into it.
I also would like to start writing again, so I’m trying to stay away from creative works for a bit so I can avoid being influenced by anything until I’m back into the swing of things— I used to write at least three or four times a week, but I haven’t written anything other than some lyrics in over a year.
 
Nostradoomus said:
I usually have 3-4 going at once. On a Stoicism kick so Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Letters from a Stoic by Seneca. Also The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus and I haven’t cracked it open but Greenwood by Michael Christie.
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Letters from a Stoic is great. I am a big Seneca fan. Dialogues and Essays is my favorite and I read something from it probably weekly.
 
Cyberjutsu: Cybersecurity for the Modern Ninja ... the cybersecurity advice aspect is all old-hat copy of a copy of a copy but the premise got me to stick around longer than I should
 
I wish I could read purely for pleasure, but that's a thing of the past. Since I'm doing a PhD in art history, the only things that I read are articles and books pertaining to the early modern period of Europe; specifically regarding the scientific, religious, and philosophical debates surrounding whether humans are in fact just animals or something beyond and how that all plays out in the art of the time. It's actually fascinating stuff, but sometimes I would really just like to grab a William Gibson book and turn my brain off for a bit.
 
SYLV9ST9R said:
Just finished Paul Auster’s Brooklyn Follies (French translation) last night and about to start Taqawan by Éric Plamondon.
I recommend the 1984 trilogy by Plamondon (which has been translated in English).
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I really liked Hongrie-Hollywood-Express and Mayonnaise. I have no recollection whatsoever of Pomme-S though.

I met Eric once. Very nice and down to earth.
 
peccary said:
I just finished The Evening and The Morning by Ken Follett, which was a *fantastic* book. It is the prequel to The Pillars of The Earth which is a *phenomenal* book. The entire Pillars series is worthwhile but those are my two favorite.

My dad introduced me to the series with Pillars and when I asked him what it was about he's like "Oh, it's about this guy building a cathedral in the 12th century." Me: "Crickets...."

But it turned out to be a page turner from the get-go. I mean, at least if you're some kind of weirdo who liked historical fiction.

I'm back in my office this week for the first time in about a year and a half and needed something to pass the time here so I started reading The Idiot again yesterday since it's probably been a decade since I read it last. I've read most of Dostoyevsky's novels and he's one of my favorite authors.
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What’s a good entry point in Dostoyevsky’s oeuvre?
 
bitzie said:
I wish I could read purely for pleasure, but that's a thing of the past. Since I'm doing a PhD in art history, the only things that I read are articles and books pertaining to the early modern period of Europe; specifically regarding the scientific, religious, and philosophical debates surrounding whether humans are in fact just animals or something beyond and how that all plays out in the art of the time. It's actually fascinating stuff, but sometimes I would really just like to grab a William Gibson book and turn my brain off for a bit.
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I get you, my job includes a lot of reading/research (reports, articles, various documents), so at the end of the day I rarely feel like reading (especially when I have a build going...), but this week at the cottage, I finished a book in 3 days and have already started another.
 
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