Books

[astfgyl]

God he sounds like a complete prick from that alone. I do really need to make the time though. I was getting into good habits before the current situation but it has knocked a bit of the enthusiasm out of me. On the plus side the missus bought me a copy of the Dunk and Egg stories today and it seems like a good and easy read to get me back into things. I have a big fat copy of the 3 Dune books in one here that I've been struggling to get into the rhythm of despite really liking where it's going after 70 odd pages. I might try the new one for something quicker as it is 3 short stories.

[Thorn]

Yep. For a while there I was trying to remember who he was but after consideration, I'm proud he didn't even register, beyond his fatuous pompousness.
Anyway, as someone once, repeatedly said,
Good luck with the book

[Pedrito]

The best thing I did to create room for reading was get rid of the TV. I know it won't be everyone's choice but it freed up a.tonne of space for me. That said, I now spend far too much time on my phone, though at least after a while your eyes can only take so much of that.

[astfgyl]

I didn't let the cans run my evening last night and I flew through 50 pages of The Hedge Knight. I think I may have discovered the secret!

[Scáthach]

Currently reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Set in New Orleans, it's about the inner life and misadventures of a rather obese good for nothing with extreme notions. It's absolutely hilarious.

[Don Gately]

Yes it's up there with my favourites. Great stuff.

[Caomhaoin]

I'm about half way through that 'A People's history of the United States' by the lad Howard Zinn. He's like a slightly preachier(in a curiously Jew way), less good looking but perhaps better informed but less balanced and reasonable socialist intellectual than Chris Rob.

Intellectually intimidating and sound but would be very enjoyable to prove wrong.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

 

[StrangersWithGuns]

You have kids?

I do as it happens. And meself and the wife are working more hours rather than less since this kicked off. I was getting a bit of reading in before this lark, I flew through ASOIAF series in record time and now since this, it seems I can't find the time. I suppose as mentioned, putting away the laptop might free up a bit or maybe not drinking cans every night would also help. I guess I could be doing a bit now but it's not great watching two 4 year olds while reading a book. Much easier put this down every 2 mins than losing train of thought with the book over and over

Maybe hit up audiobooks? I do listen to them in work, my job is rather mindless.

[StrangersWithGuns]

Listened to Mark Lanegan's autobiography. It was very raw, but not enough on music for me it was almost like a junkie's diary . And then it cuts out of nowhere, it jumps from like 1996 to 2002 and goes oh then Layne died, the End. It doesn't touch on any times in QOTSA.

[Giggles]

Currently listenting to the Mars Trilogy on audio book. It's a sci-fi which starts off in the year 2026 with a group of 100 people blasting off to Mars to begin operations on trying to make it habitable for humans. It goes into a lot of detail with the geology of the planet and the experiments they undertake to try and develop a biosphere. It's making the long days at work go by a bit quicker anyway.


I recently finished The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercombie. It's a fantasy book set in a Game of Thrones kind of era with lots of blood and fighting and intetesting characters. Would definitely recommend.

[Carnage]

Currently listenting to the Mars Trilogy on audio book. It's a sci-fi which starts off in the year 2026 with a group of 100 people blasting off to Mars to begin operations on trying to make it habitable for humans. It goes into a lot of detail with the geology of the planet and the experiments they undertake to try and develop a biosphere. It's making the long days at work go by a bit quicker anyway.

Kim Stanley Robinson? I read the first one years ago, never got around to the rest. There's a short story collection (The Martians), too.

Finished Dune, onto Dune Messiah next. It's 15 years since I first read them, I'd forgotten most of the details. Enjoyed Dune on second read, though.

[Pedrito]

Currently listenting to the Mars Trilogy on audio book. It's a sci-fi which starts off in the year 2026 with a group of 100 people blasting off to Mars to begin operations on trying to make it habitable for humans. It goes into a lot of detail with the geology of the planet and the experiments they undertake to try and develop a biosphere. It's making the long days at work go by a bit quicker anyway.


I recently finished The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercombie. It's a fantasy book set in a Game of Thrones kind of era with lots of blood and fighting and intetesting characters. Would definitely recommend.

That Joe Abercrombie trilogy is a great read

[Giggles]

Yeah the characters are so good, the way they develop throughout. I'd definitely recommend it. I think the first book from the new trilogy has been released recently enough.

Yeah the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's a bit difficult to listen to this after listening to the First Law Trilogy, where there was a lot of fighting and intense scenes. But I'm getting through it, the level of detail it goes into with science is very interesting. The voice reading out this one is nowhere near as exciting as the previous books though, and I find myself zoning out a few times.

[Scáthach]

Finished A Confederacy of Dunces last night. Wholeheartedly recommended, if you're in the mood for something funny and engaging.