Book reader community.
I've just started reading The Wager. I'm a sucker for ship based media, and I'm hoping this'll be no exception.
It's my third book of the year after previously reading both A Clash of Kings and How to get rid of a president
Slightly off topic but can anyone recommend a good android based ereader?
Edit: I mean a device, not an app.
Just finished The Breach. Poor Jacob
Finishing the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks.
Next up is I think Murtagh by Christopher Paolini.
Currently reading Brute Force: cracking the data encryption standard by matt curtin.
Peter Watts' Blindsight for the second time. It's pretty dense. I'm catching more this time around. It's a fantastic read with some of the most alien aliens ever put to page. It was a meme how often it used to get recommended back on r/printsf which I miss a lot since its replacement here is essentially dead.
Your pick reminds me I really should get into some naval fiction. I used to love it on the screen (Hornblower, Master and Commander, etc), I'm a big fan of it's sci-fi equivalents, I was into sailing as a kid and I am a total sucker for command drama stuff. Frankly, I'm shocked I've never read any naval fiction as far as I can remember.
Slugging through book 6 of A Practical Guide to Evil. Still have about 4000 pages to get to the end of the series
Ilium by Dan Simmons. Haven’t got to the end yet but already boggled my mind.
This is an excellent story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I saw another comment mention it but after you finish this, you must read (or listen to) "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing. The narration was excellent. I borrowed the audiobook from libby and it was such an amazing story!
Currently switching between Prequel by Rachel Maddow and Naked Empire (book 8 of the Sword of Truth series) by Terry Goodkind.
The MANIAC
If you didn't already read it: O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin Series. He greally goes deep into ships and sailing but the story is still compelling.
Half way through the fourth book in the Shopocalypse Series -
Buy Mort: 30,000 Leagues: How I Merged And Became New Earth Affiliated by Joseph Phelps and Damien Hanson
I was actually just reading about this series on Goodreads a few days ago; is it delightful, or simply Okay?
I just finished reading Leech, by Hiron Ennes. Very strange book, some described as Gothic horror science fiction. Thought provoking, but weird.
Gnomon. A massive disappointment.
Currently on the third book of J. D. Kirk's Bob Hoon series
I've never laughed so much at an audiobook in my life.
Imagine if you took something like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and made it really Scottish, extra violent and incredibly sweary. That's Bob Hoon
Female villain - "I'd ask you to join our operation, Mr Hoon, but I know exactly what you'd say"
Hoon - "I'd tell you to shove it up your fish-hole, you badly-aimed batch of ejaculate"
Female villain - "Well ok, I didn't know exactly what you'd say..."
Damn, this sounds exactly like my next book, thanks for recommending it.
Might be easier to read if you're not used to the accent, but the narrator of the audiobook absolutely fuckin nails Hoon's voice
I have never tried to listen to an audiobook. I am just afraid I will get distracted and miss part of it.
Exile
Book 2 in the chronological order of The Legend of Drizzt series
Not sure what happened but I used to knock back 50-80 books a year, now I barely read anymore. I'm trying to get back into it with all the books being on every electronic device so I can read wherever, and I have two physical copies of the books from different releases. Yet I'm still dragging my feet getting through it.
The frustrating thing is once I get into the book I don't want to put it down, but once I stop reading it's hard to start again.
I miss reading.
Incidentally, I was looking at the Kobo readers recently and they look pretty neat!
I'm doing a beta-read. Well written, great ideas, etc. Unfortunately, the book is turning out to be much darker than I'm comfortable with. I'll probably try to get to the halfway point before deciding to give up.
Just starting "The Time Regulation Institute," by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (translated).