What books are you reading?

[AFanNotAFighter]

Which ones? I have Carrion Comfort and the full Hyperion Cantos on the shelf. Simmons had an absurd run in the late 80s and 90s.

Carrion Comfort is a gem. Very long though.

 

[Beechwood]

Started this last night ~

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised​

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307885968?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals--and ourselves.

How do cats know when it's time to go to the vet, even before the cat carrier comes out? How do dogs know when their owners are returning home at unexpected times? How can horses find their way back to the stable over completely unfamiliar terrain?

After five years of extensive research involving thousands of people who have pets and work with animals, Dr. Sheldrake proves conclusively what many pet owners already know: there is a strong connection between humans and animals that defies present-day scientific understanding. Sheldrake compellingly demonstrates that we and our pets are social animals linked together by invisible bonds connecting animals to each other, to their owners, and to their homes in powerful ways. His provocative ideas about these social, or morphic, fields explain the uncanny behavior often observed in pets and help provide an explanation for amazing animal behavior in the wild, such as migration and homing.

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home not only provides fascinating insight into animal, and human, behavior, but also teaches us to question the boundaries of conventional scientific thought, and shows that the very animals who are closest to us have much to teach us about biology, nature, and consciousness.
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[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Exit Stragety.....Lee Child the last of the Jack Reacher novels. yep, have all 30. About half way.

Next up....Nightland...William Hope Hodgeson, best of the weird authors.

His....House on the Borderland....classic weird.

 

[Ghost of LBL]

Carrion Comfort is a gem. Very long though.

Yeah, I've been trying to collect and read all the stuff that seems significant to me. Have a handful of things I'm pretty proud of. Library is a little heavier on horror and fantasy since that's where my heart is, but I'm trying to build a good library of all genres. Have to make up for all the classic literature I should have read in school but didn't.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Yeah, I've been trying to collect and read all the stuff that seems significant to me. Have a handful of things I'm pretty proud of. Library is a little heavier on horror and fantasy since that's where my heart is, but I'm trying to build a good library of all genres. Have to make up for all the classic literature I should have read in school but didn't.

When I was in high school and college I was reading Stephen King and Dean Koontz when I should have been reading textbooks.

 

[Your Salad]

I keep rereading Catch-22.
It's a puzzle.

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

listened to the audiobook of american gods after watching 1.5 seasons of the series

felt like the show got strange in a weird way later into the second season and the writing got worse, but the book was solid all the way through. interestingly, the voices in the audiobook for many characters sound a lot like their actors in the show.

 

[xhaydenx]

Saturn Run atm. It had some harder science fiction than I usually like at points, but it's pretty cool.

Before this I read Bernard Cromwell's Winter King trilogy. Went into it just expecting it to be okay at best, but it was surprisingly awesome. Going to read more of his books for sure.

Gonna read some sci fi book called The Carpet Makers next.

 

[shockaholic12]

I keep rereading Catch-22.
It's a puzzle.

My favorite ever maybe. Only an absurd book can convey something as fucked up as war.

Been reading simulacra and simulation by Baudrillard. The Matrix and 95% of YouTube videos on it get it ass backwards.

You can read the first twenty pages and get a good grasp

 

[Steve Silva]

I wrote a book about how a bald goof and his buddies swindled some guy out of his business and got away with it - until now. Check it out, it's on Amazon.

 

[Sunnyvale TP]

100 some pages into The Gray Man book #16

 

[Boomb]

I have it for quite some, but never got around to finally read it:

before this I read:

 

[Your Salad]

My favorite ever maybe. Only an absurd book can convey something as fucked up as war.

Been reading simulacra and simulation by Baudrillard. The Matrix and 95% of YouTube videos on it get it ass backwards.

You can read the first twenty pages and get a good grasp

It is absurd and also clarifying.

 

[Batjester]

100 some pages into The Gray Man book #16View attachment 1134821

Nice. Didn't know that he released another one. I'll have to pick it at some point.

Just started book 2 of the Starship Bandits series by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzell.

According to Amazon I've read 20 books so far this year.

 

[Sunnyvale TP]

Nice. Didn't know that he released another one. I'll have to pick it at some point.

Just started book 2 of the Starship Bandits series by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzell.

According to Amazon I've read 20 books so far this year.

Hell ya!

The book came out on the 17th. I forgot I had pre ordered it, it just showed up on my E-Reader.

I will have to look into Starship Bandits.

 

[Ghost of LBL]

I read a lot, but want to try some audiobooks when out riding the bike or running. Change it up from music all the time.

Anyone shaming listening to audiobooks is gatekeeping a hobby that needs more participants.

I've been a physical book reader up until recently. And I'm currently building a large home library that I'm irrationally proud of. I felt a little weird about listening to audiobooks. But as I've gotten a little older, needing reading glasses and having longer commutes, I've shifted. A 30-minute drive is no long wasted time.

It seems pretty different, but both serve different purposes. I'd say if you're consuming books either way, you're ahead of most people.

 

[Sunnyvale TP]

Finished the newest Gray Man novel. Solid for book 16.

Started this tonight.

 

[Ballsaque]

listened to the audiobook of american gods after watching 1.5 seasons of the series

felt like the show got strange in a weird way later into the second season and the writing got worse, but the book was solid all the way through. interestingly, the voices in the audiobook for many characters sound a lot like their actors in the show.

Wooot i had completely forgotten about that show, it was actually good. Maybe I need to rewatch it.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

MANIAC from Labatut. Amazing book.

 

[The_Renaissance]

"The Lost City of the Monkey God".

Account of an expedition into an untouched jungle in Honduras to search for a supposed ancient site / ruins.