What are you reading right now?

ohnonot · 2018-03-17 18:25:24

Fix & Foxi

i totally forgot about them!
they were there in my childhood & youth just like donald duck & co, and i never even realized that they are not of the same global comic heritage.
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Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-03-17 19:03:46

Gon!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-03-24 16:15:38

Neuromancer

Be sure to check out Snow Crash as well, Neal Stephenson's vibrant debut still resonates strongly today, 26 years (!) after it's publication.

The migrant Raft is particularly prescient

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-04-15 00:00:40

^ I like the Rat Thing:

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Döbbie03 · 2018-04-21 20:40:41

Consider Phlebas, by Iain M Banks, is currently my now reading on my Kindle

ohnonot · 2018-04-22 09:30:51

^ wasn't that his first?
is it your first iain m banks?
i also read them in chronological order (mostly).
it's been a while, he was still alive then; maybe it's time to re-read them all.

ratcheer · 2018-04-22 12:17:20

Fantasy in Death by J. D. Robb. It's a fairly standard murder mystery, but well written.

Tim

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-04-24 20:16:26

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-05-05 21:30:50

A Survey on Recent Developments in Global Illumination Techniques

MALsPa · 2018-05-05 23:28:59

John F. Kennedy, President by Hugh Sidey.

ratcheer · 2018-05-06 00:34:52

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. This is going to take a while. After two days, I'm still in chapter 1.

Tim

Head_on_a_Stick · 2018-05-22 06:12:57

Fiction: Proxima by Stephen Baxter, brilliant hard sci-fi tale about the colonisation of a planet orbiting Proxima Centuri featuring impressively alien aliens and a sentient smart matter space probe.

Non-fiction: Robust Monte Carlo Methods For Light Transport Simulation by Eric Veach.

Döbbie03 · 2018-05-22 06:27:12

ratcheer wrote:

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. This is going to take a while. After two days, I'm still in chapter 1.
Tim

I have read that book a number of times. Highly enjoyable

ohnonot · 2018-05-23 07:35:59

if someone told me "here's a really good book about the zombie apocalypse, featuring a manga-style century-old eternally teenage girl", i wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot selfie stick. if they told me after that "actually really it's the vampire apocalypse", that wouldn't help either.
it's a good thing i picked up Justin Cronin - The Passage on a whim and without knowing what it is.
the story spans centuries and goes beyond the north american continent, and it never focuses on gore or suspense, but always on people.
not the typical action-hero-have-to-save-humanity type either.

shortly, it's a well written scifi/fantasy novel, don't be put off by the vampire apocalypse framework. the author is deliberately avoiding the apocalyptic mega-action anyhow, it's all about the small stories that develop in between, and the big, long, encompassing story.

Martin · 2018-06-30 13:21:06

The three-body problem. I am only a couple of chapters into it but so far so good.

/Martin

sleekmason · 2018-06-30 16:03:58

The "Xeelee" series by Stephen Baxter.
Good soak em up action sequences with well thought out dialog. Excellent writer. He's a NASA engineer, and that comes through as well. Everything I have read of his has been pretty much amazing. Flows great:)

Martin · 2018-06-30 19:09:36

Martin wrote:
The three-body problem. I am only a couple of chapters into it but so far so good.
/Martin
Interesting; added it to my list. Thanks for pointing me to that author in particular; so far, I've been focused on Western sci-fi literature only…

I have colleagues from all over the world... But this one was brought up by a Swedish colleague who had read it and he asked some of our younger Chinese colleagues if it and its author are well known in China. The answer to both questions was yes.

Then we started talking about classics which resulted in me listening to Romance of the three Kingdoms.

So if you ever wonder why your cell phone coverage is patchy -- it may be because we discuss languages/literature/cooking/culture... more than we should at work :-)

Regarding SF: Last summer I found librivox.org has some rather good short story collections.

/Martin

Döbbie03 · 2018-06-30 20:34:38

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Exorcist_(novel)

sleekmason · 2018-07-01 11:19:22

Martin wrote:

The three-body problem. I am only a couple of chapters into it but so far so good.

Thank you for listing this. Looks like a really good read.

Döbbie03 · 2018-07-22 21:47:32

Reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.

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