What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
I've had a few false starts with this one. Finally made myself read past the first few pages and it has drawn me in.
Nearing the end and I am feeling like it deserves the Hugo it won in 1969 and its status as a classic of SF.
https://www.tor.com/2011/02/06/hugo-nominees-1969/ is a pretty good write up of what was nominated elsewhere and what might have been overlooked altogether. Looks like that was quite the year for SF.
Samuel R. Delany's Nova which got a nomination is definitely going on my to read list.
Also of note: Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea was eligible that year but somehow didn't make the cut for any of the awards. This one is a personal favorite and it's a bit disappointing to see it got snubbed. It gets classified as YA but is absolutely worth a read for people of any age. Definitely recommend sharing with the kiddos for those of you with fantasy inclined spawn.
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Only one or two more nights and we will be done with The Prisoner of Azkeban.
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Finished Happy Potter 3 last night.
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Tonight we are starting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Tonight we are starting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
On chapter six tonight.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Tonight we are starting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
On chapter six tonight.
About to start chapter nine. Starting early tonight, might get through more than two.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Tonight we are starting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
On chapter six tonight.
About to start chapter nine. Starting early tonight, might get through more than two.
On to chapter eleven tonight.
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Ordered this last night.
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So man radio people around here. I'm quite surprised.
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If the Internet goes down, I still want to be able to get onto MangoLassi to see what is going on.
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We are about seven chapters in to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix now.
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Finished "Oathbringer", book 3 in the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. If you like fantasy at all, this is the best modern series, imo, there is in the genre. Enormous books, but each of them has left me wishing they were longer.
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@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished "Oathbringer", book 3 in the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. If you like fantasy at all, this is the best modern series, imo, there is in the genre. Enormous books, but each of them has left me wishing they were longer.
I have been debating picking this series up.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished "Oathbringer", book 3 in the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. If you like fantasy at all, this is the best modern series, imo, there is in the genre. Enormous books, but each of them has left me wishing they were longer.
I have been debating picking this series up.
It is long, > 3,000 pages over the three books, but I highly recommend it.
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@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished "Oathbringer", book 3 in the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. If you like fantasy at all, this is the best modern series, imo, there is in the genre. Enormous books, but each of them has left me wishing they were longer.
I have been debating picking this series up.
It is long, > 3,000 pages over the three books, but I highly recommend it.
Well it is by Sanderson, so of course it is long winded.
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Red Markets and Delta Green.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Stormlight Archive
One thing I am wary of is that Sanderson has tried to tie all of his novels into one megaverse, the Cosmere.
It is an interesting concept, but it has made me leery of jumping into any of his books.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Stormlight Archive
One thing I am wary of is that Sanderson has tried to tie all of his novels into one megaverse, the Cosmere.
It is an interesting concept, but it has made me leery of jumping into any of his books.
I don't think you will miss much not having read any of his other books. There are some subtleties about the tie-ins, but nothing that is story breaking if you don't know. It has more to do with him telling a large story spanning multiple worlds, with each series focusing on the way the underlying universal system is applied in that world. I have read everything he has written except for the WoT books, and he is my favorite author by far.
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@kelly Definitely Murakami for me
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Murakami
I'm going to have to check out his works.
