What books are you reading nowadays or want to read?

03 February 2022, 10:48:26

Since we are a community with niché pleasures, I wonder what you guys do other than linux.

I read all John Scalzi's books, especially that series start with Old man's war. It's 4 books in total, its sci-fi book about space. A human union is colonising planets and fighting with aliens etc. It's really cool. Best book series ever.

I am desperately in search for such books, all the advice I get is Harry Potter... Cmon now. So what do you read my dudes and gals?

Re: What books are you reading nowadays or want to read?

Reply #1 – 03 February 2022, 14:55:57

I recently finished Charles Dickens Great Expectations. That was a pretty nice book. I plan to start reading Eighty-Six, but I'm currently waiting on shipping (don't know why it's taking so long).

Re: What books are you reading nowadays or want to read?

Reply #2 – 16 April 2022, 23:50:13

Recently read The Go Programming Language from cover to cover like a totally normal person. Honestly, Kernighan is such a great technology author. Other than that, I recently read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and The Man in the High Castle by Phillip. K. Dick. If there is one kind of fiction I can really recommend people re-read at the moment, it is mid-century dystopias (Huxley, Orwell, Bezmenov et. al), mainly because it explains close to 90% of what is happening nowadays.

Re: What books are you reading nowadays or want to read?

Reply #3 – 17 April 2022, 02:56:41

I haven't read a book in probably over a decade, but I used to be able to sink into them pretty good. These days I am mainly a movie junkie.

The above post by ethan_v2 made me create a forum account because I couldn't agree more.

Catch-22 was a great read, very memorable. I will randomly think of it from time to time and chuckle to myself at the lunacy and brilliance of it all. Nately's Whore was probably my favourite character.

In addition, Huxley's Brave New World is my favourite work of fiction that I've read, and I agree with the statement about understanding the times we are living in.

Some others I would recommend: Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment to anyone looking for a thick but impressive work. And on the topic of thickness, some truly great writing was done by Joseph Conrad. I received a collection/anthology of his work from my sister after she finished an english course or something and didn't need the book anymore. The first one I read was tough but by the end I was hooked and I read every single one in the thick-ass volume. Nothing but great stuff - Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness come to mind but every single one was great and completely original in it's style of writing.

Lastly a couple books I might reread someday are two of Ayn Rand's massive works - Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. She gets a lot of hate but I don't understand it. Great stuff. Not immune to criticism but worthy of praise still I think. Last year I started one of her earlier (and shorter) novels called "We the Living", but I set it down when things started getting heavy. Some real marxist/communist slice of life stuff that was just tough to swallow which was perhaps cowardly of myself I dunno. I may finish it at some point.