What’s everyone reading? I’m on book 10 of the Wheel of Time, and Creatures of Light and Darkness by Alan Dean Foster
On my Kindle, I just finished re-reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in probably 15 years. Helluva book, and reading it as a teenager certainly changed the heading of my moral compass. Still deciding what to read next.
I’ve also been re-reading my paper copy of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It warms my gay little heart.
Popular opinion: Vonnegut is a based author.
I’ve not read How you lose the time war, but have had it recommended repeatedly.
Popular opinion: Vonnegut is a based author.
Yes, absolutely! Definitely a very rated author. Although I will admit I haven’t read much of his. I do have Cat’s Cradle on my wishlist, so maybe I’ll pick that up.
I’ve not read How you lose the time war, but have had it recommended repeatedly.
It’s fantastic, I love it so much. It’s mostly written as an epistolary novella, and at times is very poetic, so it’s definitely not for everyone, but I highly recommend it to anyone even kinda into that sorta thing.
But also, I finished Wheel of Time for the first time last year. What a journey! I pretty much binged it so I didn’t really experience “the slog”, and loved nearly every minute of it. Is this your first read through?
It’s mostly written as an epistolary novella, and at times is very poetic
Dang, that sounds…totally up my alley!
Re:WoT
I mostly only have time to read omw to/from work, so even though it was all I was reading, it only got maybe an hour or two a day of my attention. And broken up attention at that, what with changing buses and trains, walking between etc etc.
I’m close to finishing Assassin’s Aporentice. Robin Hobb is great at writing characters and their interactions. It feels like Fitz has an organic community all around him.
I was on book 3 of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams. It was a re-read so not too consistent, just kind of existing with the characters, you know? But Life with a capital L showed up a few months ago so I’ve mainly been dabbling in fediverse social media when I have free time. Which is why I’m even on here!
I’m rereading (listening) to A Song of Ice and Fire series, currently in the early part of Storm of Swords. I really fell down the theory rabbit hole in the last couple years and finally decided to reread them all after bouncing off a couple of unrelated nonfiction books I had been struggling through.
I couldn’t get past the halfway mark of the second book. Just something about his writing style that just doesn’t jive with me. Like the story and characters were interesting, but reading it felt like work.
I found this as well. The audiobooks in particular have a soporific effect on me. Love Roy Dotrice as a narrator but the content is extremely dry, and that is coming from someone who rereads the Silmariliion regularly.
Hmm, audiobooks solve this problem for me since I can kinda let it happen while driving or doing absent minded chores.
I can definitely understand that being a turnoff. There is an aspect to this reread where I am questioning a bit as to how much I actually like the books themselves, versus the idea of them I had in my head after reading so many fan theories and such.
Can’t get into audiobooks, think the issue is the narrator in my head is better than the audiobook narrator in most cases.
That’s fair, Audiobooks were absolutely killer for me in restarting reading as an adult. I’m a pretty slow print reader, and the frustrations of that combined with general lack of adult free time really stifled my reading till I started to use overdrive to get audiobooks from the library.
