What book are you reading?

by **Pax Nerdvana** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:12 pm

Tompicaur wrote:I am currently reading Jurassic Park again.

A true classic.

The Exarchate of the West wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling.

Excellent series. It's a pity Stirling hasn't done anything further with it.

It was good, but I think I enjoy 1632 more.

by **Free Las Pinas** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:35 pm

Tower of Nero - Rick Riordan

Can't believe he's still going pretty strong.

by **The Old Man of the Sea** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 11:57 pm

Currently re-reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It's quite the experience, though certainly not as good as Blood Meridian. I would highly recommend it for lovers of dystopia.

by **New Goldman** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:15 am

Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick. This is one of the most classic alternate history books, and its no wonder I based by NaNo work on it.

by **Heloin** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:29 am

Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerilla Warfare and Underground Operations. I found it at a book store and thought, why not?

by **Pax Nerdvana** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:09 am

Heloin wrote:Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerilla Warfare and Underground Operations. I found it at a book store and thought, why not?

Nice. I've got a PDF of it somewhere, but I wish I had an actual copy.

by **Valentine Z** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:12 am

Horrible Histories' The Frightful First World War.

These books are my childhood delight, have been reading them since 2009 (when I was in secondary school). Sure, they might not be as detailed or accurate, but they are still pretty decent as compared to movies and stuff.

by **Jankau-Helmutsberg** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 8:05 am

Pamuk's Cevdet Bey and His Sons
Márai's Embers
Tanpınar's Time Regulation Institute

by **Elwher** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:29 am

Bob Altemeyer - The Authoritarians

by **Deus Ignis** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:39 am

Comanches: A Destruction of a People by T.R. Fehrenbach

by **Icencontial** » Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:57 am

Book of disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, edited by Richard Zenith. One of the tougher books i have tried but very pleasing.

by **Pax Nerdvana** » Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:16 am

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

by **The Macabees** » Thu Nov 19, 2020 4:17 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

Great novel.

by **Pax Nerdvana** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:49 am

The Macabees wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

Great novel.

I'm about halfway done, and so far, I'm loving it. Reminds me of The Things They Carried.

by **Kheshiga** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:44 am

McMafia, a book about how globalization has effected organized crime.

by **Alternamerica** » Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:37 pm

There's a Little Free Library in my city and I recently traded out "The Turkish Embassy Letters" by Mary Montagu for "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world where polar caps melted and humanity went into survival mode, with the MC's village making money off of scavenging ships for valuables and leftover oil

by **Pax Nerdvana** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:22 am

Alternamerica wrote:There's a Little Free Library in my city and I recently traded out "The Turkish Embassy Letters" by Mary Montagu for "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world where polar caps melted and humanity went into survival mode, with the MC's village making money off of scavenging ships for valuables and leftover oil

I think I read Ship Breaker a long time ago. That plot sounds familiar.
I'm currently rereading The Xenocide Mission by Ben Jeapes. I read it once, way back in school, and recently stumbled upon a copy of it at a used book store.

by **Snow Bird-Worldism Crash** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:51 pm

almost done with hyperborea (1971) by clark ashton smith, edited by lin carter; and cryptocommunism (2020) by mark alizart.

by **The Champions League** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:14 am

Inferno by Steven Hatch, MD

Currently · by **The Grene Knyght** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:17 am

Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers

by **Auphelia** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:16 am

I'm doing a bit of juggling at the moment.

Circe by Madeline Miller (an absolute joy to read).

Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Old Man of the Sea wrote:Currently re-reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It's quite the experience, though certainly not as good as Blood Meridian. I would highly recommend it for lovers of dystopia.

Oh, that book made me ever so sad. "An experience" is the kindest way it might be described. It was the sort of sadness that doesn't bring tears, but just asks you to sit there and feel it, a leaden weight through your entire body. A profoundly unpleasant book, and yet it can in no way be called a bad book.

Currently · by **The Grene Knyght** » Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:50 am

Marxists on Literature: An Anthology, edited by David Craig

by **The New California Republic** » Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:52 am

The Theory and Practice of Communism by R. N. Carew Hunt.

by **New Visayan Islands** » Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:57 am

Graham McNeill - I, Mengsk

by **Pax Nerdvana** » Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:25 am

I finished Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson yesterday, and then started The Return of Santiago: A Myth Of The Far Future by Mike Resnick.

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