What books are you reading?

Oh, so I gave up on the 2nd book. First time I've done that in 6-8 years. And probably the third time ever. Someone said life's to short for shitty books, and I believe them.
 
I read Dark Matter, which was a good one. I tried reading the author's follow up book "Recursion" and I got about halfway through it and got a little bored. Great concepts though if you're interested in time travel told in different and exciting ways.
 
Currently reading Barbarians at the Gates. Has quite the timeless feel to it for a book written in the 1980s.
 
Haven't read a proper book in awhile. I just read online that's pretty much it nowadays.
 
I finished Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil. I think this is the 3rd Smil book I have read and I am done. It is like getting beat over the head that everyone is talking out their ass about green energy and climate change. To even have a conversation it needs to start with things like gigajoule per hectare. Obviously, that will never happen so we are fucked.

I read Billion Dollar Loser after watching Wecrashed. I absolutely love Adam.

Going to start on The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer that sounds quite interesting.
 
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A bit dry but it’s a very good book if you’re interested in the Christmas miracle of 1914, I wrote a short comedy screenplay about it that I have been struggling to get made
 
Where The Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. They made a movie of this recently.

This was a really pretty, easy read. Entertaining enough. kya in the beginning when she's young, it drew me in. I really felt like I was seeing this swamp marsh through her eyes and it is beautiful. way to go author, this part was amazing. The swamp was a character all the way through and I loved it. This little girl surviving in it made me tear up a few times.

The murder story and courtroom stuff was ok. I'm used to women writers being more brutal, this was like murder mystery lite. Don't even give me a flashback of the murder? C'mon. I felt the reason behind the murder was weak and almost a deus ex machina in order to drum up sympathy for the person behind it all. What the murdered person did that led to it all, did not line up with how the character behaved all book. gotta make this guy extra horrible before he's killed.

I think this is the authors first fiction book and overall it was good enough to read her second book if she ever writes one.
 
SoberAwakening said:
I read Dark Matter, which was a good one. I tried reading the author's follow up book "Recursion" and I got about halfway through it and got a little bored. Great concepts though if you're interested in time travel told in different and exciting ways.
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Dark Matter was a pretty solid book. I enjoyed it and it reads fast.
 
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I just finally got around to reading this.
The original movie adaptation scared the heck out of me as a kid.
Neither movie does the book justice.

The book has much more depth in the characters and the idea of grief as the main motivation for all the bad things that go down just adds to the buildup to the story finale.
 
Lux, Reckoners book 4. Nowhere near as good as Steelheart but still fun.

Might read a book about Stalin next.
 
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