The Books/Reading Thread

[Weyland]

Sławomir Nieściu - Wedle Zasług, another polish book in STALKER game universe.

 

[Einherjar86]

I read "Story of Your Life" back in undergrad, but was excited to revisit it after seeing the movie Arrival. Ted Chiang is fucking incredible:

Gone through about four essays already in this collection, which is superb so far. Greif co-founded the magazine n+1. These essays originally appeared on that platform, which is intended for pieces that don't quite fit in academic journals but are also more critically oriented than journalistic pieces:

 

[Cronopio]

I read "Story of Your Life" back in undergrad, but was excited to revisit it after seeing the movie Arrival. Ted Chiang is fucking incredible:

An awesome collection that I need to re-read. Too bad he doesn't publish more. That cover is awesome too, by the way. Hopefully the movie will make more people read Chiang.

 

[Weyland]

OMG what a terrible author's style. I read 14% and for now highly overrated.

 

[Einherjar86]

An awesome collection that I need to re-read. Too bad he doesn't publish more. That cover is awesome too, by the way. Hopefully the movie will make more people read Chiang.

I just finished "Division By 0" a couple days ago. That story moved me. I can't think of another SF writer at the moment who can extract such affect from a field as emotionless as mathematics.

 

[CiG]

 

[tagradh]

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading Hank Phillippi Ryan's Say No More the other day. I liked the book and how the author tied the various plots together. I went to a signing for her and another author I like last night.

 

[Einherjar86]

For science fiction fans, here's a link to Steven Shaviro's "favorite SF of 2016." Definitely some good stuff on this list, and a lot that I'm excited to go read.

http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1415

Just some standouts that I really want to read are Gemma Files's Experimental Film, Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy (the final installment came out in 2016), and Matthew De Abitua's The Destructives.

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading the Ingrid Thoft mystery novel Duplicity. You can check out what I thought of it HERE!

 

[CiG]

Decided to start this series over again, since I kinda dropped off about 6 books in and have thus forgotten everything for the most part.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

@CASSETTEISGOD FOR THE EMPEROR!

 

[CiG]

 

[Einherjar86]

Had a gift card to the bookstore; pretty excited about this haul:

No idea when the hell I'll get to all these, seeing as I'm working through Pynchon's mammoth Against the Day - but I'll crack them eventually.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

I started reading Choose Your Own Adventure books during Christmas vacation and I like them and I'm going to read more and I'm basic bro

 

[no country for old wainds]

there's a lot of online choose your own adventure sex stuff you'd probably enjoy.

 

[Einherjar86]

Are there any choose your own sex ones? I bet he'd enjoy that more.

 

[no country for old wainds]

actually yes. yes there are.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

actually yes. yes there are.

Because, Tumblr.

 

[no country for old wainds]

don't pretend you know what tumblr is, old man. even goatse, tubgirl, joecartoon, rathergood, ebaumsworld, spiderman has made you gay, pain4, 1337 speak, askjeeves/lycos/altavista search, napster/audiogalaxy/dc++/kazaa/imesh/morpheus, geocities and xanga are after your time. have you even heard of teletext? we have these things called fax machines now you know.