Hey Beehaw, whatcha reading right now?

  • scoobford
    11·
    2 years ago

    The Murderbot Diaries.

    I’ve been enjoying it, it has a surprising amount of heart for a series about an emotionally damaged not-robot.

  • GooseDwarf@beehaw.org
    10·
    2 years ago

    I’m currently reading through Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I’m a fan of SciFi, and cyberpunk especially. This book was on my reading list, and I decided to pick it up while in the bookstore the other day.

    So far I’m really enjoying it. It feels a bit more pulpy than some of the other cyberpunk classics such as Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but that’s not a bad thing. It certainly doesn’t take away from the entertainment in my opinion. Not every book needs to have a grand philosophy behind it.

    • drowned Phoenician@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      I guess I should finally read Snow Crash, but other books keep getting in the way. I just finished Neuromancer which surprised me with how well written it was. No idea why, but I expected the classics to be more … exhausting.

      • GooseDwarf@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        I get what you mean. Many classics are that way, especially as we get further from when they were written. I’ve been trying to work through Moby Dick on audio book during my commute, but it feels like a slog. Same with some parts of The Count of Monte Cristo but that has a good amount of suspense that really carries the reader through some of the more stuffy aristocratic sections.

  • IndeterminateName@beehaw.org
    9·
    2 years ago

    Currently working my way through the Three Body Problem series. They are very good but I’m not sure how much I’m enjoying them, they are pretty bleak in places.

    • GooseDwarf@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 years ago

      I listened to the first two on audio book. I’m in the same boat as you, where I thought they were good, and pretty thought provoking, but very bleak, and almost propagandistic, I can’t really explain it though

    • drowned Phoenician@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’ve only read the first one and found my enjoyment varying a lot. Sometimes there were great ideas and sometimes the pacing is too slow for me. Might pick up the second book sometime

    • wit@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      I didn’t enjoy the first one that much, but devoured the next two. I still think about the second book often.

  • noodlejetski@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    working my way through Discworld again. currently at Unseen Academicals.

    I will read Shepherd’s Crown this time.

    • Squiddles@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Discworld is always a brilliant choice. Good luck getting through Shepherd’s Crown. I can’t do it. If I never read it, it never has to end. “People will always remember the songs he never had the chance to sing. And they will be the greatest songs of all.”

    • IAmNoJedi@lemmy.one
      1·
      2 years ago

      I read this so many times that my hardback copy started breaking. You know how the edges of the outer cover about 2/3 of the way down start getting fuzzy from being held when you’ve taken off the dust jacket? Almost fuzzy enough to make into a rope for escaping from a tower.

      • Kamirose@beehaw.orgOPM
        3·
        2 years ago

        A lot of Miyazaki’s films are based on books! Kiki’s Delivery Services is a book as well, and Secret Life of Arietty is based on The Borrowers.

      • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]@midwest.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yes the book was first, and adapted for the movie. It’s a trilogy. They did a good job on the adaptation, though there are some differences, as there always are. I’m reading it through my Library on Libby.

  • Tatar_Nobility
    7·
    2 years ago

    Not beehaw 🤭 but I am reading Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. While it wasn’t explicitly a feminist work, you can uncover by reading it the roots of feminist thought and literature.

    • okiegirl22@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      I read this earlier this year! A lot of it is still relevant today and I found it really interesting (and then the other parts went over my head, ha ha!).

  • HooGoesThere@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Not bad so far. I just finished The Dark Tower series (loved it) so it is definitely an adjustment.

      • tcit@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        I use it to keep track of my readings, not much for its social features. But it’s pretty much GoodReads federated otherwise (well, I didn’t make much use of GoodReads anyway).

        Hopefully one day there’s going to be something agregating Trakt.tv, Bookwrym and something similar for video games.

  • agonizingnose@lemmy.nz
    6·
    2 years ago

    1356 by Bernard Cornwell. Its cheesey typical damsel in destress stuff set in a bloody french chevauchée, but I’ll be damned if it aint a whole lof of fun. Think the expanse, but with horses as worse charachters.

    • ethanolparty
      2·
      2 years ago

      I loved his Warlord Chronicles trilogy, and I’m onto reading the Sharpe series now. In terms of story he definitely has a formula that he sticks to, but it’s a really entertaining formula so I can’t really fault him for it.

  • GandalfDG@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    Just finished the audiobook of Thud by Terry Pratchett while my wife and I were on a road trip

  • ABlackWaltz@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    Currently working my way through the web serial Worm (for the second time, as I’m hoping to finish the sequel on this go around)

    • possum
      3·
      2 years ago

      I can also recommend Wildbow’s other web serials. Twig is probably my favourite (but it took a while for it to really ‘grab’ me)

      • ABlackWaltz@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 years ago

        I honestly really liked Pact (it might be my favorite, though we’ll see how I feel on re-read) but Twig was also really good. I’m hoping to go back through them all, they’re just too good to only read once.

    • Skyhighatrist
      3·
      2 years ago

      Worm is excellent. I also failed to make it through the sequel, it just didn’t grab me like Worm did. Will try again though someday.

      • ABlackWaltz@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 years ago

        Since Ward is finished, I figured it was worth another shot. It is tough to get into though - Worm gets so intense by the end (with such high stakes!) and then the sequel almost feels like going back to square one.

        • Skyhighatrist
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, I also really missed Taylor. And that just made it harder to get into.