What books are you reading?

[llperez22]

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Truly enjoyed the first 75-80% of the book, but the last quarter of book was tedious and did not wrap up things in an enjoyable way. Theres a 20 page section that changes narrative angle where you dont know whats going on or whos telling the story and you have to figure it out and you find out its a video game and the characters in the game are in fact the main characters throughout the stroy but just communicating in some open world interactive online game world instead of in real life that was so crap that it almost single handidly killed the book.

I do recommend it but just be prepared for it to fall off hard.

Its about the lives of a boy and girl who meet as young kids and share a common passion for video games. They are both smart and attend ivy league schools and join forces along with couple other people to form a video game company and become wildly succesful and in the process we learn about their personal lives and the struggles they go through from death to physical ailments to sexism and abuse etc... Its compelling and immersive and gives great detail into the video game development process. But by the end, you realize that these characters are not worth caring about and quite unlikable actually.

 

[johnnystone]

How was it ?

Very good, Hanson really knows his stuff, he basically describes how woke liberals are destroying the West and he draws parallels with historic events and what is happening now in a measured way. He is not some Trump fanboy.

 

[Meatspin]

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60462182

Just made a start on this one

 

[triptych]

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60462182

Just made a start on this one

You on Goodreads too ?

 

[Meatspin]

You on Goodreads too ?

No, I just use it to check out ratings when I'm hunting for stuff to read.

 

[WadeWatts]

Book list so far this year:
Make Your Bed
World War Z
A Reaper At The Gates
I am Legend
The Exorcist
Discipline is Destiny
A Sky Beyond the Storm
Man’s Search for Meaning
The Total Money Mackover
Ikigai
Learn Improve Master
Get your Shit Together
1984
Extreme Ownership
The Running Man
Life Stories
Sun and Steel
Spark
Courage is Calling
The Hidden Life of Trees
Hyper Focus

 

[Beechwood]

Titles welcome pls.

I was afraid I would be asked that. Don't remember at the moment but I'll look at the book tonight and if I recall I'll post the name later. Guess my next book to read should be about improving ones memory.

 

[websurfer]

Just finished this book.

It was a nice love story about NASA and neuroscience. Our main characters, Levi Ward and Bee Konnigswasser get to work on a neuro helmet and the story chronicles their day to day life at the NASA Discovery center.

 

[Tone C]

Scott Mariani : The Pandemic Plot

Okay but it's a bit like a Reacher novel where the hero seems to fall into every murder/crime going....

Investors chronicle: weekly magazine read.

Shares Magazine: other weekly magazine read.

Mountain bike rider magazine.

Various old Marvel series that I've started- Daredevil, Spider-man and X-Men currently.

Book in the bathroom needs to be refreshed, just finished The Thursday Murder Club.

Was okay but don't get all the hype over it.

 

[Fork]

Psalms for the End of the World

 

[Beechwood]

interesting. What’s the title?

The book is called ~
Cancer, the new biology of Water

https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Biolo...247519&sprefix=cancer+the+new+,aps,188&sr=8-1

 

[Hollywood Jack]

Trying to finish up I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi. I will say he did an excellent job in terms of getting so many sources and information and compiling them and then combining that with excellent prose as well.

 

[HenryFlower]

A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodón tribe of Chiapas, however, see something more in him than he does himself (dubbing him Wise Owl): when he falls deathly ill, a shaman named Black Ant saves his life―and, almost by chance, in driving out his fever, she exorcises the demon of alcoholism as well. Slowly recovering, weak in his hammock, our antihero discovers a curious thing about the mosquitoes’ buzzing, “which to human ears seemed so irritating and pointless.” Perhaps, in fact, it constituted a language he might learn―and with the help of a flute and a homemade dictionary―even speak. Slowly, he masters Mosquil, with astonishing consequences… Will he harness the mosquitoes’ global might? And will his new powers enable him to take over the world that’s rejected him? A book far ahead of its time, His Name Was Death looks down the double-barreled shotgun of ecological disaster and colonial exploitation―and cackles a graveyard laugh.

 

[CrimsomSky]

Started reading this.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Trying to finish up I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi.

He's the best so-called journalist working today.

 

[The Catch-Wrestler]

Started reading this.

Conrad did great work. Before I was born, my dad named a cat he'd had 'Marlow' and trained it to fetch cigarette wrapper.

I haven't read Heart of Darkness is years, I should read it again.

Currently reading some old Ludlum:

 

[CrimsomSky]

Conrad did great work. Before I was born, my dad named a cat he'd had 'Marlow' and trained it to fetch cigarette wrapper.

I haven't read Heart of Darkness is years, I should read it again.

Currently reading some old Ludlum:

I’m early into the book but I’m hooked and can’t wait to get into the action. So far I’ve read a couple of old 1800s books and was never deceived. Training the cat must’ve been a bit of job.
Saw that author name many times in my teens when picking up S. King’s books at the library but never gave him a shot. What is it about?

 

[The Catch-Wrestler]

I’m early into the book but I’m hooked and can’t wait to get into the action. So far I’ve read a couple of old 1800s books and was never deceived. Training the cat must’ve been a bit of job.
Saw that author name many times in my teens when picking up S. King’s books at the library but never gave him a shot. What is it about?

Ludlum is most famous for his Bourne series - lots of espionage and spy-thrillers that tend to run along those lines. Funnily enough, this one (The Aquitane Progression) is about a Kurtz-like (Kurtz being the "antagonist" from Heart of Darkness, a little later in) bad guy, a blood-n-guts type US general who commanded in the Vietnam war who is using his military connections to create a shadow government, starting with riot incitement in major cities everywhere. It's a solid read, Ludlum was pretty damn great.

 

[Gene Tunney]

The Stories of Ray Bradbury
Backyard Bugs
The Nexus - The new convergence of art, technology, and science
Inside Star Trek- The real story

 

[Sobek]

Many books have been written on Ned , but very few really unearthed what was behind the man and his legendary cult.

that one and this one dive in and shed some new light, both were interesting and do not cover the usual romantic ground and dispel a few myths.