What are you reading right now?

[Bloedhoest]

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.

 

[KingGolem]

If you like it, try Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. It is less fantastic, but nevertheless it is the depth of the vision which makes it worth reading. Hehe, funny thing about Bacigalupi's writing is that he loves writing miserable stories of human suffering in apocalyptic-dystopian futures caused by our environmentally unsustainable practices. Did you know he was raised by hippies?

Interesting... strange choice of genre for a hippy raised author to write...(!) What you mentioned about 'human suffering in apocalyptic-dystopian futures' reminded me of Ian Irvine (his Three Worlds series in particular), man can he make a reader on edge and miserable as hell...

Strange? Not at all. You can plainly see he is perched upon his environmentalist soap box as he was raised. The dismal, pessimistic view of an ecologically ruined future is no doubt his way of warning us. Anyway, I looked up Ian Irvine and his Three Worlds series and found it to have very mixed reviews. Several damned it for its staggering front-loaded infodump, unrealistic character, and cliche of plot. What do you think? I am, needless to say, apprehensive.

 

[Gesepp]

Half way through the Horus Heresy, though that's on hold for a little while because I decided to read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

And I need to start A Song of Ice and Fire next.

I'm about 200 pages into A Dance With Dragons now.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Strange? Not at all. You can plainly see he is perched upon his environmentalist soap box as he was raised. The dismal, pessimistic view of an ecologically ruined future is no doubt his way of warning us. Anyway, I looked up Ian Irvine and his Three Worlds series and found it to have very mixed reviews. Several damned it for its staggering front-loaded infodump, unrealistic character, and cliche of plot. What do you think? I am, needless to say, apprehensive.

Ah, now the penny drops, 'cos that makes a lot of sense...

Anyway, re: Ian Irvine, I didn't find the infodump that bad, or any of those criticisms, at that, least of all cliched. To be fair, I've only read the Well of Echoes quartet. It can be difficult going at times, largely because you are wading through pure despair...(!)

 

[4173]

The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter - Stories of turn of the century baseball, as told by players. Brilliant, one of the most important books on baseball ever written.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. Amazing book so far.

 

[KingGolem]

Strange? Not at all. You can plainly see he is perched upon his environmentalist soap box as he was raised. The dismal, pessimistic view of an ecologically ruined future is no doubt his way of warning us. Anyway, I looked up Ian Irvine and his Three Worlds series and found it to have very mixed reviews. Several damned it for its staggering front-loaded infodump, unrealistic character, and cliche of plot. What do you think? I am, needless to say, apprehensive.

Ah, now the penny drops, 'cos that makes a lot of sense...

Anyway, re: Ian Irvine, I didn't find the infodump that bad, or any of those criticisms, at that, least of all cliched. To be fair, I've only read the Well of Echoes quartet. It can be difficult going at times, largely because you are wading through pure despair...(!)

Alright then, I might check it out. I think I still have a credit left over on Audible. Thank you.

 

[Hennofletch]

Achtung ? Panzer! by Heinz Guderian. It's really interesting, as it wrote the German's tactics in WW2.