What are you currently reading?

[4/5]

[epilogue]

I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Really enjoyed this book.

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Lincoln on the Bardo

[VinylGuy]

anyone here read Ocean Vuong?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

I don't think I'm ready for another multi-part series yet, but I'm intrigued by this one.

[epilogue]

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

I don't think I'm ready for another multi-part series yet, but I'm intrigued by this one.

My friend gave me a bag of books. This was one of them. He says he never read the rest of the series because the first one was satisfying on its own.

So far, it's excellent but I'm barely into it (like 50 pages).

[epilogue]

anyone here read Ocean Vuong?

I read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous two books ago. I liked it. Mickey thinks he's a boring writer and that the novel is bad, though he hasn't read it -- he has it on good authority.

[VinylGuy]

I think ill read something but yeah im afraid this guy might be over hyped.

[epilogue]

Your call. I went in with no expectations though. Maybe that's why I liked it.

[Simple Torture]

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

I don't think I'm ready for another multi-part series yet, but I'm intrigued by this one.

My friend gave me a bag of books. This was one of them. He says he never read the rest of the series because the first one was satisfying on its own.

This is how I felt after reading Dune.

[epilogue]

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

I don't think I'm ready for another multi-part series yet, but I'm intrigued by this one.

My friend gave me a bag of books. This was one of them. He says he never read the rest of the series because the first one was satisfying on its own.

This is how I felt after reading Dune.

Same

However, also in that book bag my friend gave me? The next two Dune books. I have no idea if I'm ever going to get around to them, though.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Lincoln on the Bardo

You dog

why?

[blueviper]

I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Really enjoyed this book.

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

Oh shit you are in for a ride, even if you stop with this first one. I say read all three. What a trip.

[BurtReynolds]

In my continuing research on Flat Earth and how it has been hidden from us by the lizard people, I stumbled across Hyperboloid Earth



incomprehensible.

Rather than a universe with 3 spatial dimensions plus time, this takes place in one with 2 spatial dimensions plus 2 time dimensions. This, you can imagine, creates some very weird situations.

Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive.

In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a “dark cone” to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light.

Every living thing in Seth’s world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun’s shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead.

But when Seth and Theo join an expedition to the edge of the habitable zone, they discover a terrifying threat: a fissure in the surface of the world, so deep and wide that no one can perceive its limits. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend into the unknown.

You might want to study up as you go:
http://gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/00/DPDM.html
http://gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/01/World.html

[epilogue]

I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Really enjoyed this book.

Now I'm on to The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

Oh shit you are in for a ride, even if you stop with this first one. I say read all three. What a trip.

[4/5]

The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

[Simple Torture]

Reading multiple books at once has never been my thing, but over the past few weeks it's been fun having a few different story collections to keep flipping between. These two have been added to the pile:

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]