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Maklershed · Jan 1, 2016

Maklershed · Jan 1, 2016

Currently reading City of Stairs

City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

GK86 · Jan 1, 2016

Recently brought (blindly):

Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines Book 1)
The Red: First Light
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

Going to be reading through one of them starting Monday.

Cade · Jan 1, 2016

Still Joyland but since New Year.. I'm about to start this:

Never listened to the podcast, but if I dig this I'll probably get into it. I just love weird small towns.

Ceebs · Jan 1, 2016

Doing the audiobook of this one durring my commute.

Trying to decide on something to read until City of Blades comes out later this month.

Nymerio · Jan 1, 2016

Was about to start The Traitor Baru Cormorant

but then I saw 30-Second Psychology in on my Kindle and didn't even remember when or how I got it so I've started this as well. At 160 pages it's a quick read though.

cebri.one · Jan 1, 2016

Zakalwe · Jan 1, 2016

The Power of Now.

I can see why the book has such mass appeal. It's nothing I don't already know, but there's a lot I tend to forget during the day. Lots of good ideas to live by.

Aurelius · Jan 1, 2016

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PSYCHOHYZACK · Jan 1, 2016

Was right in the middle of reading A Storm of Swords when I decided to drop it as it just felt like such work to get through. After hearing how much better the books are than the show I naively told myself I would read all of the books before the sixth season started. It didn't help that I had just read A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings right before. While I enjoyed them both I really dislike the chapter structure (There's no real momentum until the last five pages and half of them end on cliffhanger's) and don't feel like they justify their length at all. I've already seen every episode of the show so I already know the main plot points of the books, but man does it feel like an aimless, repetitive, slog in the second and third books, and hearing that it only gets worse in the fourth and fifth books means I've resigned myself to having the show give me the rest of the story, mediocre fifth season be damned.

Started:

China Miéville's The City & the City

Saul Bellow's The Victim

Lord Dunsany's The Sword of Welleran and Others

Peru · Jan 1, 2016

Got started on one of my new year's resolutions, joined the neogaf goodreads group and started adding some books. 2014? Easy, as I participated in the 50 books challenge. Even 2015 is harder to remember with no log.

moojito · Jan 1, 2016

Ghost brigades, by John Scalzi.

I remember liking the first in the old man's war series, but it's been that long I can't remember much about it. So far this one's off to an uncertain start. It seems to be going from one conversation where people talk about genetics to another. Not much else happening. I'll stick with it though and see how we get on. Really looking to up my reading game this year. I wish I could just download stories directly to my brain. So much to read, so little time :<

Laekon · Jan 1, 2016

So I just finished Ancillary Justice

I thought it was pretty good. Do the other 2 books hold up? There are way to many series were the story just goes downhill with each additional book.

Plasticine · Jan 1, 2016

Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume Two) by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Deleted member 125677 · Jan 1, 2016

I am reading SPQR: a History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard and The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus over the holidays

Good times

ClosingADoor · Jan 1, 2016

Going through the Conqueror serie about Genghis Khan. First three books done about his live, not on Empire of Silver about his heir and the empire continued. One more to go after this, probably done next week.

Haly · Jan 1, 2016

Laekon said:
I thought it was pretty good. Do the other 2 books hold up? There are way to many series were the story just goes downhill with each additional book.

Yes, but a forewarning. Most people expect stories like Ancillary Justice to get bigger and bigger with every iteration.

But Ancillary actually gets smaller and more personal with each book.

Spent a lot of 2015 watching film and movies but I figure it's time to get back to reading:

fakefaker · Jan 1, 2016

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen.

nintendork666 · Jan 1, 2016

Starting off the year right with Patton Oswalt's Silver Screen Fiend.

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About 70 pages in so far, and I'm hooked.

Cyan · Jan 1, 2016

Reading the third Foreigner book, Inheritor. These are p good.

drtsoni · Jan 2, 2016

I'm about 150 pages in. So far, so good. The characters are engaging. It's certainly living up the series' name: the Dagger and the Coin. There's quite a lot of political backstabbing and business running. I also like how the book keeps things moving along nicely instead of spending too much time in one place like other fantasy series.

cheezcake · Jan 2, 2016

Currently making my way through HP Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. I thought The Tomb was a bit weak compared to the other stories so far. Dagon and Polaris were very good.

Laekon said:
So I just finished Ancillary Justice

I thought it was pretty good. Do the other 2 books hold up? There are way to many series were the story just goes downhill with each additional book.

Sword definitely holds up, I haven't read Mercy yet

TheKaeptain · Jan 2, 2016

fakefaker said:
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen.

Let me know how this is. I bought it last year and still haven't read it.

I'm starting:

Nola · Jan 2, 2016

Working on The Saxon Stories series by Bernard Cornwell. Currently on book 2, The Pale Horseman. I'm enjoying it but the writing feels a bit repetitive at times.

Cade · Jan 2, 2016

I just finished Welcome to Night Vale. It was decent, but honestly I prefer my weirdness a tiny bit more grounded, less anything-can-happen. Very well written and surrel though, and I'll probably check the podcast out eventually.

Still reading Joyland, but soon I start The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Vibranium · Jan 2, 2016

Catch-22, I love it, it truly is a classic. It really feels like the inspiration for the MASH movie/TV series in a lot of ways. The satire is on point and the humor is well-paced.

Yossarian lives.

fakefaker · Jan 2, 2016

TheKaeptain said:
Let me know how this is. I bought it last year and still haven't read it.

So far so witty, insightful, tragic. You will enjoy it.

TheKaeptain · Jan 2, 2016

fakefaker said:
So far so witty, insightful, tragic. You will enjoy it.

That's good to hear. I'm going to move it up on my reading list.

Nymerio · Jan 2, 2016

I finished 30-Second Psychology yesterday evening. I don't think I've ever made that many bookmarks in a book before. Very interesting book.

Moving on to The Traitor Baru Cormorant later today.

A Fish Aficionado · Jan 2, 2016

elite09 said:

Taleb went full on crank and conspiracy lately.

Reading

Maklershed · Jan 2, 2016

The Kindle version of What if? is $2.99 on Amazon today.

What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Easystride · Jan 2, 2016

Maklershed said:
The Kindle version of What if? is $2.99 on Amazon today.

https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1451351509l/21413662.jpg
What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

That sounds like an interesting concept, I may have to pick it up! Kind of sounds like the "What-if Machine" from Futurama.

ngower · Jan 2, 2016

TheKaeptain said:
Price of Salt

I got about 2/3 through but it really was fairly boring. Operated heavily in subtext and innuendo. There's one scene where they should go into detail about what happens but instead they just skip to like a day later in the next paragraph. I'm a queer history buff and was so pumped for this book but it kinda let me down.

kingofrod · Jan 2, 2016

Just finished Sword and Claw. I've just started getting into sci-fi / fantasy after a good friend recommended that I read Name of the Wind a few years ago, but, after reading Wolfe, I have a feeling I might have already read the best from the genre right out of the gate.

Atraveller · Jan 2, 2016

Started reading The New Jim Crow, it had been in my backlog for a while.

kruis · Jan 2, 2016

I really liked the first book in this Roman mystery series, so now I'm reading the second book. Saylor is great at showing you what life in the Roman empire was like.

shingi70 · Jan 2, 2016

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28046871-the-king-of-taksim-square

So far so good, the humor is bit biting, but I assume I'd get more of the local references if I was from Turkey, but the books seems to get all of it down to basic points. I love how the book sets you up early on and we learn that the Protagonist reality may not be what we believe from other peoples views.

Saurus · Jan 2, 2016

Laekon said:
So I just finished Ancillary Justice

I thought it was pretty good. Do the other 2 books hold up? There are way to many series were the story just goes downhill with each additional book.

I'm about 50 pages in and want to give up. (The

annexation

chapters are incredibly boring.) How long before it starts to pick up?

Ovid · Jan 2, 2016

Finished The World Is Flat.

Ten years later and the stuff that he talks still resonates. What totally blew my mind was the fact that he foresaw the Arab Spring, the rise of ISIS, disenfranchised Muslims in Spain and London and the rise of protectionist rhetoric in America. Man, what a fantastic book. I highly recommend it.

I'm slowing taking my time to read Mathematics for the Nonmathematicians. I'm really terrible at math and as a result I always hated it. I think learning about its history will give me a better appreciation for it. The book blends geographical, philosophical and logical history of math, as well as its practical application. I like it so far.

School starts back up in a few weeks and I'm not going to have time to read novels. I'm going to try to digest one more book. The Girl on the Train is next up on my list.

Atraveller said:
Started reading The New Jim Crow, it had been in my backlog for a while.

I want to read that book.

Please tell us what you think of it.

Maklershed said:
The Kindle version of What if? is $2.99 on Amazon today.

What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Interesting, I think I'm going to pick that up.

Dedication Through Light · Jan 2, 2016

Hopefully I can read more this year, only finished 29 of my 50 last year.

Currently will tackle Acccel World v5.

ATF487 · Jan 2, 2016

STILL reading Infinite Jest, I think I started it around the beginning of August....hoping to finish it before the end of the month. About 60% of the way through it according to my Kindle. I love it but the past few months I haven't been reading as much; that should change now that it's cold and shitty again.

After that it's going to be Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses. My mum also lent me a copy of Cutting for Stone that I should probably read soon too

Draconian · Jan 2, 2016

Finished Sanderson's Hero of Ages last night. Enjoyed it much more than the previous entry and thought it was a solid ending to that trilogy. Now to decide if I want to pick up the next Mistborn series or go to the Stormlight Archive.

Started Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay this morning and enjoying it so far. I've missed Chabon's prose quite a bit.

Atraveller · Jan 3, 2016

tarius1210 said:
School starts back up in a few weeks and I'm not going to have time to read novels. I'm going to try to digest one more book. The Girl on the Train is next up on my list.

I want to read that book.

Please tell us what you think of it.

Girl on the Train is one of the most overrated book I've read last year, it drags all over the place, has unlikeable drama queens for main characters, and a hilariously bad twist ending that you could literally see from chapters away.

I haven't got very far into The New Jim Crow, but from what I can tell, it primarily focused on War on Drugs and mass incarceration, with the criminal label as the legal method of segregation and discrimination. While this was also touched upon in Racism without Racists, RwR is more about the people, with the emphasis on white privilege, the linguistic evasions racists use, well disguised policies, etc.

hardcastlemccormick · Jan 3, 2016

I'm reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and A Confederacy of Dunces (which I started years ago).

Saurus said:
I'm about 50 pages in and want to give up. (The

annexation

chapters are incredibly boring.) How long before it starts to pick up?

I don't recall Ancillery Justice taking a lot of terrible shifts in tone. The plot does pick up quickly in the annexation bits after some seemingly minor mysteries; I don't know where 50 pages puts you.

A Fish Aficionado said:
Taleb went full on crank and conspiracy lately.

Like most Facebook screen caps, I have no idea what's going on here.

Kama_1082 · Jan 3, 2016

My first book of the year will be gangster warlords.

So excited for this book
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/162040379X/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Nuke Soda · Jan 3, 2016

ngower said:
I got about 2/3 through but it really was fairly boring. Operated heavily in subtext and innuendo. There's one scene where they should go into detail about what happens but instead they just skip to like a day later in the next paragraph. I'm a queer history buff and was so pumped for this book but it kinda let me down.

I got about 2/3 through before I gave up too, glad I am not the only one. Book was boring and the main character became a

super jealous crazy person

for no reason.

Silent Chief · Jan 3, 2016

Decent book which accurately depicts the actions of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives which somehow turned into a lame movie with made up characters.

Xamtheking · Jan 3, 2016

GK86 said:
Recently brought (blindly):

Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines Book 1)

Going to be reading through one of them starting Monday.

This one is pretty fucking sweet

MilkBeard · Jan 3, 2016

I haven't been reading any books in particular in a while. I picked up the Berserk manga because I wanted to get more of the story.

I have been getting back into story writing, on the other hand, so it might be good for me to pick a book and read it to help getting back into the swing of things.

A story I'm writing has a sci-fi setting, so I might pick up 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' I have a copy lying around but never got to it.

GK86 · Jan 3, 2016

Xamtheking said:
This one is pretty fucking sweet

Awesome. I will start with that book then.

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