Book Thread? What have you been reading recently. 48 Laws of Power is something i'm into rn and im really enjoying it

Book Thread? What have you been reading recently. 48 Laws of Power is something i'm into rn and im really enjoying it.


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You should read the book "House of Leaves"

Oh yea, whats it like? I think i heard of it before

just started this. so far its been pretty good. also a short read which im starting to prefer

I just finished the Malazan Book of the Fallen, i'm kinda burned out on reading

i just finished this. It's sort of "sword and planet" sci-fi. Really good, like most of Simmons' stuff.

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Good book choice OP.

I just searched it and didn't realize Rambo was based off a book, thats pretty cool.

Brandon Sandersons world building and magic systems are great, good call. If you're not opposed to used books you should check out thriftbooks.com you can get that shit cheap as hell

Oh yea? I haven't read any of his other books but i've heard some amazing things about this series.

my dad always said the film was shit in comparison. gonna find out if there was any truth in that

Yea Awesomebooks has great deals as well, though I'm kinda broke atm so im gunna wait a little bit before i get some new books.

Interesting. Never took rambo for a plot heavy movie, figured people just watched it for the action.

the Revelation Space series by Alistair Rynolds. The author was an astrophysicist for the ESA, so it's distant future space opera with a lot of attention paid to technical accuracy (really hard sci-fi). (also significant portions of the plot were "borrowed" for Mass Effect 1-3)

Illiam and Olympos are more historically based and set on earth and mars (in the distant future) where the Hyperion Cantos are straight up fantasy in space. Both amazing series.

I've never really read any hard sci fi, would you recommend this for a beginner? Like i enjoy and do watch some sci fi and enjoy it I just haven't read any.

Rendezvous with Rama by Author C. Clark is a good choice, because it's so foundational to the genre. The Revelation Space series is a good start too, a lot of really neat scenes that feel really plausible.

Not the guy who suggested it, but I also suggest reading house of leaves. It's a weird meta-meta narrative trying to tell a horror story. I'd say primary themes would be the fear of the unknown, conflict between lust for adventure and finding satisfaction within, and the horror of darkness, and claustrophobia. It's written in multiple fonts with black ink and some special words written in blue or red ink with no apparent explanation other than that assumed by the reader. It also has an unusual text arrangement, sometimes only a single word a page for several pages, sometimes written upside down, scrawled around the borders, shrinking and growing, lots of footnotes, headnotes, and subnotes in multiple fonts. I'll spoil the beginning because it doesn't really tell you what the main content of the book is but actually makes it an easier to understand the read. It's a story written by a kid in a tattoo parlor about a non-fiction style book written by dead shut in who is wrote it about a movie that doesn't exist. It's pretty weird.

Cool, I'll add those to my list.

Kim Stanley Robinson 2312

That is very very weird, but sounds really interesting.

I'll post some images of pages to convey the weirdness. Even that retarded sounding sentence trying to explain it wasn't quite correct.

Titan by John Varley. Psychedelic 70s sci-fi. Really out-there shit.

Interesting. I wonder what it would be like in an audiobook format.

Keep in mind most pages are like a normal novel, albeit some font changes and the aforementioned footnotes.

I think the authors intention was to use his use of space on the page to also try and convey the sense of claustrophobia and space. Believe it or not it works. It's the only horror story that ever really gave me the heebie jeebies.

This looks so cool.

Here are some of the annotated pages.

It's a chore to read but worth the work. When I read it I intentionally read it in dim light or by candlelight, I even considered buying some red bulbs to enhance the experience. I've never been wrapped up in horror like that.
Probably terrible. I think alot of what you feel when you read the book comes from its bizarre style. In a horror novel I think the feelings it's trying to invoke are the most important part.

Hmm, a series.

I read the first but did not know there were others. Will add them to the list.

An Absolutely Amazing Book. The Best Book of the 20th century

Yea i would definitely read this by a dim light.

Don't get your hopes up too much. It's probably too weird for alot of readers and constantly having to consult crossrefrences in the book like "For further information see page 186" and when you flip to page 186 you realize there is no page 186 in the book. Like I said, difficult read. The actual text of the book isn't that hard to parse, it's just the organization and format the author chose to present it in. Kinda pretentious but I liked it.

I think it's pretty cool to come across something that you look at and say "This needs the right atmosphere to be enjoyed properly and I'm willing to go to the effort"

Just started this, fantastic fiction so far

Cool cover art. Whats it like/whats it similar to.

While we are still recommending books, I'll throw this out. It's about a lunar prison colony kinda like the UK used Australia. The people get sick of authority and stage a libertarian moon revolution.

As an aspiring author gotta say love me some 1984 by George Orwell

Really cool premise, but it sounds like a cheesy young adult novel/The 100 type thing. Please tell me it isn't.

I WOULD LITERALLY GIVE MY DICK FOR A SUIT OF SHARD ARMOR

FUGGGGGG

this book is good btw

This is about a farmer planting an illegal beanfield in a dying new mexican town. Better story than it sounds. It's just good damn writing.

Keys to the kingdom series is pretty good. Granted its for slightly younger audiences but the imagery is awesome. Trippy as all hell.

An absolute Gem. I'm so happy we had to read it while in school, it opened me up to so many cool ideas and genres of books.

I'm re-reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. definitely recommend

Heinlen wrote alot of cheap ass books for money. This one he completely poured his heart into. It was his sci-fi attempt at explaining his own political beliefs. Some parts might seem immature but he wasn't writing for a young audience.

An island nation of 7 countries gets made into an empire by one of the countries by way of a decade long war, then after 30 years of Imperial rule revolution is sparked. It seems to be following all the possible future rulers so far, I'm into it

This one is about a Tanuki that parachutes from heaven with his scrotum to drink sake and fuck japanese farmgirls. Also three vietnam war deserters start manufacturing heroine in a cambodian villiage founded by circus performers. I always consider Tom Robbins books the opposite of a dry read. Wet. Pulpy. Magical. Confusing. Semi-erotic. Clearly Erotic.

Greg Egan is probably the hardest of hard sci-fi authors. Schild's Ladder plays around with advanced physics in the distant future. He's also an Aussie

Very cool. I'll take a look into it.

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Just finished The Broken Empire trilogy.
Any recommendations along the anti hero fantasy lines?
Like The First Law trilogy?

This one is a horror story about two young boys figuring out the mystery of the creepy carnival that comes to town. Alarmingly adult and poetic. Not a book for children. Captures the innocence of boyhood and the creepyness of the uncanny.

I'm too stuck in a cycle of instant gratification to "read books"

Another oldy but goody.

This is probably the scariest book i've ever read. It's a historical horror about a lost 19th century expedition into the arctic. I think it's being made into a TV series soon.

just finished the stand by SK and currently reading 1984 cause i've been putting it off since high school. borrows some of the themes from brave new world but it's a lot more relatable to today's society.

also started watching the 90's miniseries of the stand. it's not the best acting (they definitely could have picked a different person for the dark man), but they pretty near included every single character from a 1400 page book so it's still fun to watch.

you never had to read 1984 in school? Damn

The titan, wizard, and demon trilogy by John Varley is to fucking hard to explain. I'll just say things. God rings around saturn. Stranded astronauts. Centaurs and angels at war. The apocalypse. 50 foot marlyn monroe fighting and raping king kong then giving birth to a dead fullsize camel she feeds through the eye of a needle. Panaflex camera birds that only can be tempted out by spectacle so you dance and they creep out to take pictures of you, then you pounce and pull the film out of its anus so you can see the things it has seen. It goes on.

Can't really explain this either. Don't read Murakami if you like understanding things.

Crime and Punishment, The Fountainhead, The Road Less Traveled, Isaiah, A Tour of the Calculus, Double Deuce, A Confederacy of Dunces, Moby Dick, Gulag Archipelago v.1.

beat you too it.
yep. the whole series is great. there are literally diagrams explaining lesbian centaur fucking rituals. Bind blowing stuff.

they gave us animal farm instead

This is the book that invented cyberpunk

This is the book that killed it.

we read that in 8th and 1984 in 10th, but i graduated in 2001 and am old as fuck.

This is the book that got stuck inbetween and was better than both. Way better.

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This book invented steampunk.

Bait.

I am undone. Good fucking read though. Varley is my goddamn hero. His short stories are unbelievable.

why b8?

Sadly, the last book in an amazing series.

posted a lot of sci-fi stuff, but this is my absolute favorite book. It's an absolutely brutal western that becomes so surreal that is may as well be a dark fantasy like Dark Tower. Some of the best literature of the 20th century.

They have been trying to make a movie out of it for a long time, but you would have to remove major plot points just to get an R rating.

His books can be divided by the juvenile and the adult stories. Good writer most of the time

Have you read that fucking piece of shit. I like libertarians and even then it was a boring self centered masturbation fest by an author who couldn't string two words together without a bottle of pills in one hand and a whip to beat herself with. Pure trash.

4/10

the stand is a great book

Read this bleak masterpiece if you hate happiness and believe that there is no such thing as human goodwill. 10/10 would smash babies together again.

lool, I never even heard of that book but it seems it's not very popular.

this is my favorite steam punk series (the only good one i've read actually). Would make an amazing TV series.

Oh shit I fucking looooved the Road. It was so good. I'm definitely going to check this out.

Just finished pic related. Pretty interesting read that will require another reading to fully digest

say thank you gibson or you'll never get to watch your Johnny Mnemonic VHS ever again

Blood Meridian makes The Road look like Lazy Town

Im hyped.

It's a philosophic manifesto where the whole point is to be a dick and it's okay as long as it feels good doing it. Also the writing is incredibly boring. If you want to read a book with a main character who is a completely unrelatable bitch of a human being read this. It's fucking amazing. Floating pirate cities and such.

Thank you gibson. Also I really do own johnny mneumonic on vhs. It's practically the only vhs I own that I care about. That and willow.

The Aeronaut's Windlass
- Okay Steampunk pirates adventure, but features very well done characters.

This. I just wish he knew how to end a fucking book. All three bas-lag books ended with "Then they all got tired and went home" It's fucking frustrating.

Is it really that bad? The only thing I've read by rand was the fountainhead and I thought it was great.

It's so fucking violent and depressing it actually gets boring. Halfway through I was sarcastically like "Ohhh, more indiscriminate murder and nihilism? You don't say." Still gud tho.

I never knew you but you are already dead to me.

This was an epic for sure, I also really loved "Outer Dark" by Cormak McCarthy, that and "Suttree" are my 3 favorite by McCarthy

that gets my dick hard.

muh nigga

i also have my Hardware and Total Recall vhs tapes

i know they'll eventually demagnetize but i'll hoard them until i die

Try the Sword of Truth series. The first 4 books are good, 5th one not so good, 6th on rivals the first as the best, and then the rest of them pretty much suck after that. Still an interesting read though, you might like it.

Just read this and the first sequel. It's space opera that isn't fucking Star Wars.

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