Books - what are you reading? (Official Book Thread)

[TOAD99]

Currently reading: The Will of The Many by James Islington

Very easy to read despite the size of the book. Interesting world building as it’s the start of the series.

It gives off a bit of YA vibes at times akin to the first Red Rising book

Man there was this one chapter that was so well written and brutal

 

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Currently reading: The Will of The Many by James Islington

Very easy to read despite the size of the book. Interesting world building as it’s the start of the series.

It gives off a bit of YA vibes at times akin to the first Red Rising book

Man there was this one chapter that was so well written and brutal

I feel like a lot of new fantasy by authors in their early 40s on down have a bit of YA'ness to their writing.

 

[Wildin]

One of my favorite authors when I was lil jit, and pretty much one of the reasons why I fell in luv wit reading.


This used to be my shyt right here:

Jamal stayed catching the beats but he was 12.

WDM definitely has a style. Some of his writings have a rushed or not full ending but the exposition, rising action action and climax are dope enough to make a tv show or mini movie.

We should've had many more shows like wishbone, goosebumps, are you afraid of the dark.

 

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Got back into Discworld for the tenth book in the series, and finished reading Moving Pictures a few hours ago. It might be the best one I have read so far. Usually they start good and then there is a bit of a deep in the middle, then it goes back up for the third act. This one felt like the trajectory went stayed going up to the end.

 

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I was able to squeeze in one last book before the month is over.
Nebula Award Stories 3 edited by Roger Zelazny.
It's a collection of the 1967 Nebula winners for Best Short Story, Best Novelette, and Best Novella. It also includes a few runner-ups.

It's a pretty good representation of the New Wave era of science fiction where there was more of a focus on social science and more grounded stories

 

[O.Red]

I was able to squeeze in one last book before the month is over.
Nebula Award Stories 3 edited by Roger Zelazny.
It's a collection of the 1967 Nebula winners for Best Short Story, Best Novelette, and Best Novella. It also includes a few runner-ups.

It's a pretty good representation of the New Wave era of science fiction where there was more of a focus on social science and more grounded stories

I got like 6-7 Zelazny books on my Kindle and don't know which one I want to read. I read This Immortal about 10 years ago and thought it was decent

 

[TOAD99]

Started reading Empire of Silence. About a 100 pages in. Main character is sorta whiny and melodramatic

 

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I got like 6-7 Zelazny books on my Kindle and don't know which one I want to read. I read This Immortal about 10 years ago and thought it was decent

I only read Lord of Light. I have This Immortal on table and a short story collection on the shelf.

 

[Trav]

This was not "scary" or anything by any means, but at the same time, finishing it up super late at night then having your self-vacuuming robot runnin' into your door at 2am do you no favors after reading about "haints" & shyt

Anyways, at 570 pages, this one took me a min---especially gettin' thru the first 100 pages or so. Due is real methodical in setting the stage, and the pacing gets interrupted at times with the POV back & forth, but I can appreciate the "mirroring" of the two sibling and whatnot. This is not traditional horror at all. No jump scares, no "I got to turn away because it's too gory" kind of scenes. It's more along the lines of slow burning, Southern Gothic, historical horror. I liked the nod to real life historical events thru ole girl's premonitions or whatever . All in all, it was a good read.

 

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This was not "scary" or anything by any means, but at the same time, finishing it up super late at night then having your self-vacuuming robot runnin' into your door at 2am do you no favors after reading about "haints" & shyt

Anyways, at 570 pages, this one took me a min---especially gettin' thru the first 100 pages or so. Due is real methodical in setting the stage, and the pacing gets interrupted at times with the POV back & forth, but I can appreciate the "mirroring" of the two sibling and whatnot. This is not traditional horror at all. No jump scares, no "I got to turn away because it's too gory" kind of scenes. It's more along the lines of slow burning, Southern Gothic, historical horror. I liked the nod to real life historical events thru ole girl's premonitions or whatever . All in all, it was a good read.

Definitely reading this later this year. I started it but put it down after the first chapter because I wanted to get back to reading my science fiction collection

 

[Trav]

Definitely reading this later this year. I started it but put it down after the first chapter because I wanted to get back to reading my science fiction collection

Def a joint I can see people needing to take a break in between or it gettin' put on the back burner for some other ish you may have on your list. I was just still in dat mode after Sinners & figured I might as well continue da vibes. Im def switchin da tone on my next book tho.

 

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Finished up Nebula Award Stories 5 edited by James Blish right in time to catch the Naoya Inoue fight

I think I liked this collection more than the previous one I read. The only story I really didn't care that much for was Time Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R Delany. I just had a hard time getting into that story.

The two essays at the end were very informative to the landscape of science fiction in 1969

 

[Haliax]

Currently reading: The Will of The Many by James Islington

Very easy to read despite the size of the book. Interesting world building as it’s the start of the series.

It gives off a bit of YA vibes at times akin to the first Red Rising book

Man there was this one chapter that was so well written and brutal

Be sure to check out the Licanius trilogy by the same author.

 

[Drab Gutter Color]

 

[Lambent55]

The Game at Carousel​

I've read all 3 books, and subbed to their patreon where they have an advance of book 4 and 5 completed, and working on 6.

It's pretty unique, there are not many books that takes this approach.

Just put amazon . com / in front or search on Amazon

Bystander-Horror-Movie-LitRPG-Carousel-ebook/dp/B0CSFB25XB




"
When horror-obsessed Riley Lawrence and his group of college friends arrive in the small town of Carousel for their Centennial Celebration, the few decrepit cars parked in the street don’t scare them. But when they enter a locked building, an animatronic usher hands them each a ticket, and the lights dim, Riley realizes they’ve entered the inescapable patchwork of a horror movie set. And they’ve each been assigned an archetype—Scholar, Athlete, Eye Candy, Final Girl—to play out as the curtains rise.

Assigned the Film Buff archetype, Riley’s doomed to repeat a pattern: knowing exactly who the killer is but never surviving the attacks himself. After all, film buffs may know what’s coming, but they’re always the first to be hunted down. Until, that is, Riley learns he can avoid a death or two by exploiting the Oblivious Bystander trope. It seems monsters and killers won’t harm him as long as he can convincingly pretend he hasn’t noticed them.

To make it through this deadly game, Riley and his friends will need to leverage their tropes effectively to determine what’s trapping them there in the first place. But as the rounds continue and escape seems farther and farther out of reach, they’ll be forced to ask themselves: Would they survive in a horror movie?"