What books are you currently reading?

[Guest]

Let me start with apoligizing for the instance i missed a ( sticky ) book post
but i was curious about what, or maybe if you guys enjoy a book once in a while too.

I'm currently reading a serie written by a retired canadian soldier whose interest lies in sf and militairy fiction.  Its always those intelligence types eh.. that seem to love writing books

The series is called Siobhan Dunmoore and follows this female officer during her tour in the militairy. Hotheaded, tactical expert, fericous hunter type. All contained in this space opera type of story where every genre cliche is touched.
Eric Thomson is his name and this particular series contains out of 5 books which you can buy on Kobo.

E-reading is a fairly new part of my live. The E-reader is a weird screen that, when off or in sleep, tries to mimic a book by showing the cover from the book you last read. 
I dig it! What i also dig is its inbuild dictionairy which comes quite in handy, especially in passages where the militairy slang is heavy. 

I'm not sure about the Kobo format if i'm entirely honest. 5 'books' between 5 adn 8 euro's each seem to come down to one big bigseller containing about 5 to 600 pages.
Ofcourse a time well spend is a time well spend but as a dutchmen i need to live up to my standard when it comes down to spending money.

if you are into militairy sf with some opera flair i would, after reading 2 books, recommend this one to any fan of the genre   

[Volbet]

I always have a bunch of books going at once. Just focusing on one book seems a little bit boring to me.

Currently I'm reading:

• Capital by Karl Marx. A book that literally everyone seems to have an opinion on, but that very few people have actually read. Now I try to leave that position. I'm not too far into it yet, but it's a pleasent enough read for philosophical work.
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Essentially a book that tries to explain why different peoples exhibit different traits in terms of culture and development. The book is extremely well argued and really makes you think.
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. A lot of people have probably played the video games based on this series, but the books, while thematically similar, does have a slightly different tone than the games.
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozsick. This books seems very influential on modern libertarian and neoliberal politics, which I find weird since it's extremely difficult to read. I might just be a bit dense, but Nosick's use of counterfactual epistemology is very hard to follow. That's also why this book has been on the back burner for me for a while.
• Wolves Among Sheep: History and Ideology of National Socialist Black Metal by Davide Maspero and Max Ribaric. As dismissed as NSBM is by a lot of black metal fans, there's no doubt that it has held an important musical place within the black metal genre. The book is very well researched and documents the music as well as its ideological underpinnings.

[TetraSky]

I'm currently reading the "Please Don't Tell My Parents" series by Richard Roberts... It's not bad, but I'm not even half way through book 1 so I'm not sure if that opinion will stay the same later on.

 

I'm also reading volume 13 of Overlord... which I've been reading for like 6 months, a few pages at a time... 100 pages remaining. I don't have much time to read... Or more like I'm not making much time to read. I could be reading right now, but I am instead wasting my time on the internet.

[Worstcaster]

I just finished "Will Save The Galaxy For Food" by Yahtzee Croshaw - It was about interstellar pilots, being put out of work by transporters.

 

I'm currently reading "The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories." by Patrick McManus - A collection of humorous outdoor themed short stories.  

[DumbAsshole32]

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[wasab]

I'm reading erotic novels. Kinkier the better. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, -Kriss- said:

Last book i read was a marketing book for class that i read for 2 hours total before the exam

so your not actually reading a book?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, wasab said:

I'm reading erotic novels. Kinkier the better. 

titles?

[DumbAsshole32]

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[Guest]

4 minutes ago, -Kriss- said:

Well i did read it, and unless we're counting audio books then not yet.

Audio books seem to have a certain flair.... I last listenend to them in my youth... Grimm tales and other children's stories which i liked listening too. From what i gathered at other book clubs, fantasy and such there a a lot of people who enjoy audio books for what ever reason. I would be the last one to dispend Visual novel's or audio books to the trash can or verdict "Not good enough to be shared when someone asks you if you read "

[Guest]

22 minutes ago, wasab said:

I'm reading erotic novels. Kinkier the better. 

btw i've read one in my early 20's .. i still feel a bit sorry.... Histoire de "o" or something like that .... Hardcore shades of grey stuff in your language i guess would be fitting
tanith lee also wrote some questionable stuff

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Volbet said:

I always have a bunch of books going at once. Just focusing on one book seems a little bit boring to me.

Currently I'm reading:

• Capital by Karl Marx. A book that literally everyone seems to have an opinion on, but that very few people have actually. Now I try to leave thar state. I'm not too far into it yet, but it's a pleasent enough read for philosophical work.
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Essentially a book that tries to explain why different peoples exhibit different traits in terms of culture and development. The book is extremely well argued and really makes you think.
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. A lot of people have probably played the video games based on this series, but the books, while thematically similar, does have a slightly different tone than the games.
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozsick. This books seems very influential on modern libertarian and neoliberal politics, which I find weird since it's extremely difficult to read. I might just be a bit dense, but Nosick's use of counterfactual epistemology is very hard to follow. That's also why this book has been on the back burner for me for a while.
• Wolves Among Sheep: History and Ideology of National Socialist Black Metal by Davide Maspero and Max Ribaric. As dismissed as NSBM is by a lot of black metal fans, there's no doubt that it has held an important musical place within the black metal genre. The book is very well researched and documents the music as well as its ideological underpinnings.

That is an impressive list. Guns, Germs and Steel has been a point of interest for quite a while. If Kobo offers it on a sale i would be game  

[Teddy07]

Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate (non-fiction)

 

In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments—some 6,000 men—crossed the Cambodian border and attacked...

 

William Albracht received the medal of honor for his actions. Read the book and find out if he survived

 

[Ithanul]

Just finish up book five of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.  Now I just started the first book of Saga of Tanya the Evil.

 

Also have The Priory of the Orange Tree lined up to be read as well, along with aiming to read the current 13 books released of Overlord.

 

Plus, I got a huge back log of books I plan to work though (not a full list):

• Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
• Invader by C.J. Cherryh
• Inheritor by C.J. Cherryh
• Lost Gods by Brom
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen (re-reading before I watch the new TV series based on it)
• The Dragons of Dorcastle by Jack Campbell
• The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking (partly read, just need to finish it)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

[PlayStation 2]

The Big Book of British Smiles

[Donut417]

Currently reading Secret of the Dragon: A Dragon Riders of Elantia Novel. This is like the 5th in the series. They are not really long books, but I really enjoy them. Before this series I was a big fan on the Inheritance Cycle and Harry Potter. 

[Guest]

55 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

Just finish up book five of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.  Now I just started the first book of Saga of Tanya the Evil.

 

Also have The Priory of the Orange Tree lined up to be read as well, along with aiming to read the current 13 books released of Overlord.

 

Plus, I got a huge back log of books I plan to work though (not a full list):

• Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
• Invader by C.J. Cherryh
• Inheritor by C.J. Cherryh
• Lost Gods by Brom
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen (re-reading before I watch the new TV series based on it)
• The Dragons of Dorcastle by Jack Campbell
• The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking (partly read, just need to finish it)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

A nice list as well. I never even heard of C.J. Cherryh to be honest.... I guess that is a nice idea to pickup upon if or when i'm done reading my current list of novels

I'm halway past Greg Bear's book eternity ( rereading ) and the series inhabiting my e reader are the series by Eric Thomson, The lost fleet series also by Jack Campbell and a sci fi done by Linday Buroker from her Fallen Empire series. 

I'm curious to see when the good omen series becomes available here in the Netherlands!

May i ask what you are hoping to find in Sun Tzu?

[Bananasplit_00]

The experimental log of the crazy lich is what I have just finished all the translated chapters off. Chinese Web novel, fantasy comedy adventure thing, it's pretty amazing

[Ithanul]

6 hours ago, Christiaan21-03 said:

A nice list as well. I never even heard of C.J. Cherryh to be honest.... I guess that is a nice idea to pickup upon if or when i'm done reading my current list of novels

I'm halway past Greg Bear's book eternity ( rereading ) and the series inhabiting my e reader are the series by Eric Thomson, The lost fleet series also by Jack Campbell and a sci fi done by Linday Buroker from her Fallen Empire series. 

I'm curious to see when the good omen series becomes available here in the Netherlands!

May i ask what you are hoping to find in Sun Tzu?

C.J. Cherryh is one of the older Sci-Fi authors.  My Dad owns many of her books, along with Andre Norton, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, and several other books back when paper backs where like 50 to 75 cents (we still have a good chunk of the books).  I basically grew up reading a lot of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy paper back books my Dad had collected over the years.

 

The book by Sun Tzu, I just interested in how war strategy and the like are talked in it.  Being former active duty and currently a Guard member.  I find military tactics interesting.