What are you currently reading?

[Dan M]

Just finished “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells. I recommend it, I reserved the next one at my library. It’s about a robot that hacks its governor module so that it can be independent and ignore instructions.

 

[jimilee]

PCB Layouts for Musical Effects. By the man himself, R.G. Keen

 

[BuddytheReow]

One of the classics, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

 

[DAJE]

I'm not that far into it, but it's already pretty excessive and they've only just signed Kiss.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

You've stopped reading my posts I assume?

Or is the assumption that you've ever read them?

I only said that you nobody would suspect that I’m lifting my prose directly from your posts. Of couse, people nights have caught on already with all of the lyrics about pic programming and the choruses of “now go build something”

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Haven’t had much time to read anything during this semester, but I might start listening to the audiobook of Jeanette McCurdy’s memoir— I’ve heard it’s absolutely fantastic, so I’ll probably listen to that during my next 6 hour studio session at school. I’m working in the studio ~40h per week, snd at least 12h of that I can do while listening to audiobooks, so if anyone else has suggestions for good audiobooks or podcasts, I’m all ears.

 

[Fingolfen]

Taylor Anderson, Hell's March - book 2 of the Artillerymen series. Sort of sci-fi meets historical fiction...

 

[giovanni]

I’m reading the last book in the Expanse series at the moment. Right before that I read Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful world where are you”, which was really good.

 

[Ctrl4Smilerz]

I just finished the Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, which was awesome and am now reading the the Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

 

[DAJE]

A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell

Irish crime/humour, the first book in the Dublin Trilogy which is currently up to book 6 or so.

It's good, I'm enjoying it a lot. I already have the next few titles in the series queued up.

 

[Harry Klippton]

I just started reading Ministry for the Future and boy is it bleak

 

[Alan W]

Just finished Wild Seed, by Octavia Butler, yesterday. She always goes to strange places, which I generally enjoy. I typically rotate through types of books—I used to read a non-fiction and a fiction concurrently, but oddly enough, now that I have unlimited reading time, I tend to just try and mix things up. With fiction, I like to separate ”easy” books from “harder” ones, so I can, as a slow reader, still seem to burn through the odd SF or mystery, then read something by Richard Powers (for example) where I find myself reading and rereading sections to glean the most sense from them. Actually next up will be a Powers, The Gold Bug Variations. I have a feeling this may be a mashup of Edgar Allen Poe and JS Bach (he goes to strange places too.)

 

[Alan W]

I just started reading Ministry for the Future and boy is it bleak

Yeah, but he sure knows the topic!

 

[Alan W]

If Russian lit is an interest, give Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita a shot.

Ooh! I really remember enjoying that quite a bit—thanks for the reminder!

 

[KR Sound]

All sci-fi this year. Just wrapped up The Three-Body Problem trilogy, and I recommend it if you’re into hard science fiction.

 

[damianvila]

All sci-fi this year. Just wrapped up The Three-Body Problem trilogy, and I recommend it if you’re into hard science fiction.

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I’m in the middle of the first one, but I’m not super into it, tbh. It tends to rely heavily on metaphors and allegories, and that is not my preferred style. But it’s a good book.
I finished four others before this one, and have ten others from different authors waiting for me.

 

[KR Sound]

I’m in the middle of the first one, but I’m not super into it, tbh. It tends to rely heavily on metaphors and allegories, and that is not my preferred style. But it’s a good book.
I finished four others before this one, and have ten others from different authors waiting for me.

It's interesting since it's a translation of Chinese and he tried to keep the same spirit of his original text. It's a pretty wild ride once you get towards the end of book 1. I sped right through the second 2 in about a week. I've been really thinking about our place in the universe and i don't look at the stars the same.

 

[giovanni]

Reading Michael Pollan’s “How to change your mind” which is pretty interesting! I’m also reading Lois Svard’s “The musical brain”, which is a very interesting scientific review of many things related to music and how it affects our brain and how learning to play a music instrument changes the brain. Really fascinating stuff.

 

[KR Sound]

Lois Svard’s “The musical brain”, which is a very interesting scientific review of many things related to music and how it affects our brain and how learning to play a music instrument changes the brain. Really fascinating stuff.

I'll have to check that out.

 

[szukalski]

I finished the Bobiverse series a few months ago, the first three were good, the fourth I felt went on a bit too much. Still worth it though.

Recently, I just finished the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. That, I REALLY enjoyed. It's LitRPG but I enjoyed how it has transformed into more meaty fiction as the series progressed. Also, who doesn't love a rampant AI with a foot fetish incentivising a strong dungeon crawler into stomping on creatures!