What are you currently reading?

[Downcologo one]

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"el juramento de los centenera" It's interesting, the only bad thing is that it's quite repetitive and sometimes the plot doesn't move forward.

[LadyMistDragon]

The Thousandfold Thought

 

 

[Amaruψ]

The Fall of the Ottomans

 

[average rodent]

I am currently learning to read :)

 

[ducon]

Finished:

 

The levee is built against Elinor’s agreeent. There is more Lovecraft in this second book (a murder, a haunted house, a deep one but not in the ocean).

 

Now:

[HeatedChocolate]

Got my grubby mitts on some stuff from my dad's bookshelf.

• Some compilation of the works of Edgar Allen Poe
• Dante's Inferno
• Dune
• The Silmarillion

I think I'll start with Inferno, Poe seems to be the kind of book you'd break out occasionally, Dune is long and I've tried to read the Silmarillion more times than I can count. He's also got some of the Song of Ice and Fire books. If Martin comes out with the others in my lifetime I think I'll read 'em.

[P_A_Z]

 

 

[Garlichead]

Finished reading Kim. Started reading The Duel by Joseph Conrad.

[SPACEDETECTIVE]

Fate Stay/Night and Blood Meridian

 

Quite and interesting combo.

[Guff dotD]

On 4/2/2023 at 3:34 AM, ducon said:

 

Topology tells us a lot about how a T-Shirt has 3 holes (not to be confused with openings.)

 

[ducon]

5 hours ago, Guff dotD said:

Topology tells us a lot about how a T-Shirt has 3 holes (not to be confused with openings.)

 

Maybe:

 

Finished:

How Saruman is defeated and the One ring is entering Mordor.

 

And finally:

[Aaron Blain]

I finally got around to getting some Michael Moorcock in epub/pdf format so I can enjoy it while I'm going about my business, or falling asleep at night. I find text-to-speech extremely soothing.

 

I'm jumping around in Elric/Corum/Bastable. It's such a trip revisiting some of these for the first time in 20 years. I've changed so much as a person, and so much of these books went over my head as a teenager. It's a strange feeling revisiting the most mind-expanding literature of my teens, and now being painfully aware of how much my worldview has diverged from Moorcock's, but he's still firmly my all-time favorite fiction author.

[ducon]

Read:

 

A strange guy, maybe one of the last who were involved in all sciences, even if he did not master them all.

He worked on logic, game theory, nuclear weaponry…

 

Next one is:

 

Finished:

 

Is the best part is after the fall of Sauron?

 

Now:

Edited October 26 by ducon

[LadyMistDragon]

Fluids by May Leitz

 

[Lila Feuer]

[ducon]

Read:

 

The 1929 crisis wiped men, the old fart died, characters are getting older, are leaving Perdido.

 

Now:

 

One of the two daughters of Elinor is like her mother, not the other one. The similar women are solving problems the same way: fhtagn!

War is bringing fortune to the Caskey family.

 

Now:

 

They found oil in a swamp and are now very rich.

 

And finally:

 

Finished:

 

Another giant who worked on a lot of domains: logic, geometry, calculus, even physics that he mathematized.

 

Now:

 

This genius was bullied because she was a woman and jewish. Anyway, she had a lot of beloved (platonic) students and an original way to teach.

 

Then:

 

I heard about his work in economics but not his work in pure mathematics… and that he was such dick.

 

Now:

Edited November 19 by ducon

[Rudolph]

Read most of Kenichi Sonoda's Gunsmith Cats. It was... interesting? Not sure I would recommend it, however.

 

On one hand, it feels like an improvement over something like Tsukasa Hojo's City Hunter - which has a similar premise, i.e. a gun-toting bounty hunter who fights crimes in a modern urban setting - in the sense that the protagonist here is not a "lovable" pervert and her relationship with not just her business partners but other women is a lot healthier and believable. As far as female protagonists go in mangas, they are pretty fun and memorable, and the art manages to make them look cool without sexualizing them.

 

On the other hand, it quickly becomes apparent that the titular Gunsmith Cats are all actual teenagers, which becomes a problem when the mangaka starts drawing them naked or scantily-clad - which just feels utterly unnecessary. I came to expect gratuitous panty shots and the occasional nudity from mangas, but here the author could have easily avoided the creepiness by making his female characters to be fully-grown adults - which would have been perfectly believable, given how common it is for petite women in their 20s and even 30s to come across as much younger than they really are, especially in mangas. Plus, there is the fact that the protagonist runs a successful gun shop and comes across as highly-experienced when it comes to both shooting and driving - which is not what you would expect from someone who is only 19.

 

And then, the mangaka decided to give the protagonist a recurring arch-nemesis in the form of a pedophile lesbian dominatrix mob boss (!) who keeps a harem of mind-controlled scantily-clad underage girls who are explicitly made to be her sex slaves and he really liked to remind the readers about it. Granted, "Riding Bean", the OAV that the manga is a spiritual continuation of, did feature a pedophile lesbian villain as well, but that part was mostly alluded to and it was definitely not depicted in a downright pornographic manner. 

 

So... yeah. Not sure I am going to keep reading after that. :S

Edited November 20 by Rudolph

[EraserheadBaby]

[EraserheadBaby]

@Guff dotD  does a plate have a hole in it?

[LadyMistDragon]

The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin

 

 

[ducon]

Finished:

 

A very good book about Greek and Nordic mythologies but the stories are a bit too short in my opinion.

 

Now:

[smeghammer]

Alternating between Harry Potter (first one so far)  Discworld (currently Witches Abroad) to my kids, and this:

 

 

for work.

[ducon]

Finished:

 

Finally, Elinor dies and rain comes back.

An excellent series of 6 books, relating the rise and fall (or maybe not) of the Caskey clan during about fifty years (from 1920 to 1970).

Homosexuality, monstrosity, social relations, racism, are also in these books.

 

Now:

 

Finished:

 

He proved a very few theorems but seminal theorems. Beware, his theorems are about syntactic proofs (eg proven by machines), not semantic proofs (eg proven by a human).

 

Now:

Edited November 28 by ducon

[amystivens]

Started reading The Iliad after it being in my big "to read" pile for an eternity. It's the Hammond prose translation though, and not a verse translation.