I’ve put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It’s mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I’m going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.
Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)
At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?
Im halfway through The color of magic by Terry Pratchett, I’ve read a few other discworld books but I thought it was time to start the first book an try to read them all in the “right” order.
It’s probably the weakest of the Discworld books (at least from what I read of them). You can tell that he’s still developing the world and it’s much more just a fantasy spoof as opposed to the social satire masquerading as fantasy spoof that those books then more and more turn into.
I’m about half way through The Fall of Hyperion. It’s great
The Stormlight archive- Brandon Sanderson
Children of Time - It’s fantastic. Easily digestable space fair about giant intelligent spiders in their war with ants. Humans are involved but I care little for them. Not going to lie, I’m mainly there for the chapters narrated by the spiders and they are expectional.
Finished Prelude to Foundation (fantastic!), now starting Children of Ruin (so far so good).
Currently listening to The Dark Tower 7 and about to start The Fall of Hyperion. I’m new to The Hyperion Cantos, but the first book hooked me so I’m looking forward to diving back into it.
The Bobiverse books were great. Can’t wait for more. I’ve been reading Expeditionary Force which is where the Skippy’s come from. Also Rythm of War by Brandon Sanderson.
4th book was a huge let down. Dragged on and on about really nothing.
I really enjoyed Heaven’s River, but I also enjoy a slice of life book, and really liked all the world building with the otter world, I can definitely see where you are coming from though.
Neuromancer, count zero, blade runner (do androids dream…), burning chrome. Lots of cyberpunk stuff lately
I just started reading Neuromancer last week after finishing Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.
I recall reading and enjoying Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep along with Man in the High Castle and A Scanner Darkly a while ago… I should attempt a re-read.
Everyone recommends Neuromancer, but when I tried it a while back… I got stuck in the first third and give up. I vaguely recall it had a lot of world building, which I’m not a huge fan of (at least at the time).
I just finished Project Hail Mary and just started The Passage.
Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?
I was re-reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein, which I read about 15 years ago and really enjoyed (even bought it for a friend as a gift). On the second read through… I found it much less entertaining (though the connection between the computer and the current LLM/AI hype is interesting), got about half-way through and basically stopped. I probably won’t finish it, which is kind of sad. Oh well, tastes change I guess.
About to finish Snow Crash, and I was just thinking about reading Seveneves afterwards. Is it good? How does it compare to Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash (the only other Stephenson books I’ve read)?
Until I read Project Hail Marry, Seveneves was my favorite book.
The only other Stevenson I got around to is Crypto (really enjoyed, putting a foot into “love”). My friend is a Stevenson nut, and is incredibly lukewarm on Seveneves, and I couldn’t tell you why. Go in as blind as possible (that infamous opening line is fine). It is a RIDE.
