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PiaGodoy
·Time and Time Again by Ben Elton. Terrific book. Strong recommendation!
What are you reading??
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Togri v. 2.0
··Wow! Custom title... coolCurrently reading this. Really interesting book on the evolution from late antiquity to early feudal/middle age society and the rise of the Roman Catholic Church and the Papacy.
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ErichPryde
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Just finished The Blade Itself (Abercrombie) the other day. Read My Name is Legion (Zelazny) over the weekend, definitely recommend the third novella in that collection if you like 60s/70s sci-fi ("Home is the Hangman: originally published in Analog Nov '75). I also very recently read a couple of old short stories by George RR Martin well before he started A Song of Ice and Fire- "The Second Kind of Loneliness, and "A Song for Lya." Both were thought-provoking and published in Analog in '72 and '74.
Started Before They are Hanged (Abercrombie) this morning.
I pretty voraciously read science fiction and science fantasy, and have since I was young. My 5-year-old is possibly developing the same addiction, he is consuming all the Calvin and Hobbes in the house at an amazing pace.
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ErichPryde
·He's one of my favorite authors.
No idea if you venture into science fiction or have heard of or read Gene Wolfe, but his novel The Fifth Head of Cerberus, sort of reminds me of Russian lit. Within the science fiction and science fantasy communities he's up there with Cormac McCarthy...
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ErichPryde
·I listen to a lot of audiobooks with my wife. My preference is to read, but in the two decades we have been together I have a long history of reading to her which is probably why she likes the format. I definitely appreciate it and I'm glad that it is making something of a serious comeback, as it makes books more accessible to people that don't have time, or in your case, concentration, to sit down with a paperback.
So I have really severe ADHD, and it makes reading really difficult because the act or labor of reading sort of distracts from world building or imaging what the words are describing and I end up reading the same paragraph endlessly before giving up. I’d never read an actual novel until I was about 31, then someone suggested audiobooks and I got the first Harry Potter book as a free trial on Audible. Not only was it possible for the story to sink in by audio but I was so deep into it I stayed up all night until I’d finished the first book.
Since then I’ve kept listening to audiobooks, my favorites atm are anything relating to submarines for some reason, the book Blind Man’s Bluff is my favorite but I’ve got a huge collection of them. I don’t know why I find nuclear submarines so cool but they just are.
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Waltesefalcon
·No idea if you venture into science fiction or have heard of or read Gene Wolfe, but his novel The Fifth Head of Cerberus, sort of reminds me of Russian lit. Within the science fiction and science fantasy communities he's up there with Cormac McCarthy...
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dougwhiz
·I recently read this one also by David Grann. Bits of Master and Commander mixed with Lord Of The Flies. I'm looking forward to reading Killers of the Flower Moon as well.
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFFor several years at the beginning of my teaching career I taught special education English at a local high school. The number of smart kids that took my class because they struggled with staying focused on books, made me a believer in audiobooks.
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ghce
·This is the sort of thread I can get behind!
Just finished The Blade Itself (Abercrombie) the other day. Read My Name is Legion (Zelazny) over the weekend, definitely recommend the third novella in that collection if you like 60s/70s sci-fi ("Home is the Hangman: originally published in Analog Nov '75). I also very recently read a couple of old short stories by George RR Martin well before he started A Song of Ice and Fire- "The Second Kind of Loneliness, and "A Song for Lya." Both were thought-provoking and published in Analog in '72 and '74.
Started Before They are Hanged (Abercrombie) this morning.
I pretty voraciously read science fiction and science fantasy, and have since I was young. My 5-year-old is possibly developing the same addiction, he is consuming all the Calvin and Hobbes in the house at an amazing pace.
There are some familiar magazine anthologies for sure.
Certain I have read them all, being like you a voracious SF reader from the mid 60's onwards to the mid 90's with a couple of books a day.
In the mid 90's I cleared my book shelves by sending them all to auction, somewhat north of 2,000 books.
The COVID lockdowns rekindled my enthusiasm and I read probably close to 100 books!
These days however I find myself reading stories for my now 6 year old, bought 8 new books for her today.
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nanjingcigaretes
··practicing PMA
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ErichPryde
·There are some familiar magazine anthologies for sure.
Certain I have read them all, being like you a voracious SF reader from the mid 60's onwards to the mid 90's with a couple of books a day.
In the mid 90's I cleared my book shelves by sending them all to auction, somewhat north of 2,000 books.
The COVID lockdowns rekindled my enthusiasm and I read probably close to 100 books!
These days however I find myself reading stories for my now 6 year old, bought 8 new books for her today.
Awesome! Pleasure to meet you. Currently I have between 3800 and 4300 sci-fi titles spanning from the beginning of the Golden age to recent, and have been seriously contemplating paring down.
Most of my book buying these days is for my kids (6 and 3) as well!
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Canuck
·Reading Flames Across the Border”. The history of the war between the USA and Great Britain (Canada). The War of 1812.
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hansaboy
·When in Greece!??
I forgot to buy part 2 and 3.... Darn!
I forgot to buy part 2 and 3.... Darn!
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ghce
·Awesome! Pleasure to meet you. Currently I have between 3800 and 4300 sci-fi titles spanning from the beginning of the Golden age to recent, and have been seriously contemplating paring down.
Most of my book buying these days is for my kids (6 and 3) as well!
I had lots of 40's 50's and 60's pulp, great stuff! Plus everything else, a lot of them irreplaceable I am guessing but they really took up a huge amount of space.
Recently bought 3 Kindles a few weeks ago and our 12 year old hasn't put his one down yet.
Got him hooked into reading 2 years ago when I introduced him to the Alex Rider series and he hasn't looked back, stories a few years ago he turned his nose up at are now the goto thing from the usual kids rubbish though to much better reads.
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hansaboy
·Amazing reading about Seal Team 10 (but in Swedish...🙄)!
The English title is Lone Survivor.
And I think they made a movie about it also?
These Guys are deserved Big Respect!
The English title is Lone Survivor.
And I think they made a movie about it also?
These Guys are deserved Big Respect!
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rudagger
·Yea that was something that frustrated me a great deal as a kid because there was all this focus on how smart people read lots of books, smart people read a novel a month, smart people read recreationally and have a thirst for literature and I went through schooling having read zero novels. Comics, magazines and forums I’d read endlessly but no novels for that issue of it being mechanically difficult to read and imagine at the same time.
I hear you!
As an 11 year old, I took an IQ test of sorts to see if I qualified for a gifted programme.
The results were that I qualified on the math section, but my vocabulary was only average.
The tester said smart kids tend to like reading and so they had a superior vocabulary.
I thought it was poppycock. To me, reading was just a preference, like any other preference. To me, the people who liked reading just didn't like being active outside.
A story to highlight that......
I had 1 brother who loved reading, and one who loved sports. My cousins were visiting and we decided to take our bikes to 7-11. The reading brother said no, he was reading.
My cousin quipped, "No,no. Reading is what you do when you are bored and having nothing better to do. We are giving you something better. We're taking our bikes to 7-11!!!"
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ErichPryde
·Going through my old sci-fi/sci-fan collection and pulled this down from the shelf. Pratchett, pre discworld (with lots of references to discworld). I didn't realize it, but this is apparently a first American edition (only around 1,500 copies were printed) and is incredibly scarce. Who knew?
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Waltesefalcon
·Going through my old sci-fi/sci-fan collection and pulled this down from the shelf. Pratchett, pre discworld (with lots of references to discworld). I didn't realize it, but this is apparently a first American edition (only around 1,500 copies were printed) and is incredibly scarce. Who knew?
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