Weekly “what are you reading” discussion thread # don’t know

40K Steal Tread - tanks vs mutants

I have a question for all you bookworms here- how long does it take you to finish a single book? Yes, I know that it depends, but generally speaking, on average or for a regular, moderatly-long book, how long would it take you to finish? What's you reading rate basically?

Apollo 13 still because I’m lazy and it’s long. It’s about this mission to the moon that went absolutely horrible but somehow they made it back alive. The astronaut who wrote it is actually a TOTAL CHAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lovell

Just started, although I know the story, still pretty well written

all of king krazys posts over and over and over again

I just bought this book

Rereading House of Leaves

>The gang was all there. Slipping Peepee, Greasy Min, Old Bear, the Wrecker, and the Chief: C*nt McB-word. Wrecker horked snot and clotted blood onto the shit stained mud as he skewered the last city boy through his bowls. Shit and piss sprayed from his gut and mixed with the last of his heart blood.

>"That'll teach you to disrespect women," Wrecker spat.

>"Oy C*nt, ya done yet?" Mcb-word growled. Wrecker smiled as he looked up, gazing upon the gathered crew. A hard lot, northmen all, aside from the woman. It had turned out she was more of a man than any of them. Smarter too.

Been reading early 00s DARK AND GRITTY fantasy slop

Also unadaptable kino

I've started reading An Immense World, which is about all sorts of animal senses and how different animals perceive the world around them. Pretty fetch.

Great book for turning your irrational hatred of Big Tech into rational hatred

Also example #9953450430 of why rightoids should try reading, instead of noticing something wrong with society and jumping to "IT'S DA SATANIST JOOZ"

Speaker for the Dead.

something by neal stephenson i havent decided on yet. i wanted to plough through most of his stuff this year

probably diamond age

I’m finishing “Pale Fire” probably today or tomorrow. Next one is “Hamlet”, it will be my fourth Shakespeare play after “Macbeth”, “Coriolanus” and “King Lear”.

"How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker, throwback to when popular science was good. The computational model of mind chapter (2?) is surprisingly shitty still but the rest of the book could be the best popular science book ever written. He's right about everything and it doesn't matter, people can't read lol.

I haven't had it in me to read anything since I finished Malazan last year

Another Robert Service 20th Century Soviet history, Bolsheviks & the West.

Also,

i’m reading The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. i’m only maybe 60 pages in right now but it’s starting to get interesting. bits with the mysterious elk are creepy. the horror starts off with a bang with a terribly sad dog death. that’s where i stopped yesterday and had to take a break lol

before this i read Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and it was ok. not as good as some of his other stuff and not much to say about it. i actually picked up this book by Jones because it was shelved close to Ishiguro in the library (obviously) and it caught my eye since they didn’t have the Ishiguro that i wanted to read next.

before that i read Tress and the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. it was quite cute and i really enjoyed it. it’s most definitely not for everyone but i think it was my favorite thing he’s written in years tbh. sweet and whimsical and twee. highly recommend if you like The Princess Bride, Stardust, and books you can finish in one weekend.

Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics and random papers for research

gotta restart gravity's rainbow :(

Why we fight.

Also I love Rachel Weisz in the mummy, she can be my mommy.

Just finished Foundation and Empire.

Bayta Darrell is Asimov's one decent female character (above pic is her daughter Arkady- all the pics of Bayta I could find are badly-scrawled coomer material).

Brothers karimazov audiobook

Just started reading Nausea by Sartre

'Live no lies' by john mack comer, it's pretty wingcucked but it changed my mind on some modern nonsense such as the assumption that we're always standing on the shoulders of giants intellectually, always increasing in brain power and understanding with each new generation. Turns out yeah we acquire more knowledge but shit probably hasn't changed with our IQ in 30,000 years except for a noticeable decline starting around the time the social revolution took off in the 60s/70s and the family structure started getting attacked. It also makes the best case I've heard for why the majority of idealists deserve the wall.

Lotta srs bsnss nooticer type of stuff. I wanna read House of Leaves next after watching this video tho. (I don't recommend actually watching that video, I hate pompous "let me explain to you this blatantly obvious thing with a sherlock homes accent" bongistanis and could only get 1/3rd in)

I finally fricking finished Crucible of War. I liked large parts of the book but about a fourth of it was dry, boring tax policy stuff that went on way too long.

Taking a nice break and reading a light fiction story now. Terra Incognita second book after Medicus which I really enjoyed.

I finally finished rereading War and Peace, thankfully still ahead of my reading goal for the year! Now I'm reading Witches of Eastwick (boring so far, hopefully it gets better).

I just bought the Silmarillion so I am reading the Lord of the Rings first to get back into Middle Earth. I am probably going to take my time going through the Silmarillion reading here and there when I feel like focusing so I am debating what my next series will be. I want to get into the Wheel of Time but don't know if I am really wanting to get into a series that long and I downloaded the Name of the Wind but I am not sure if I am really feeling that right now. I haven't read a lot of the top fantasy series so I might switch it up and go a little more dark with something like The First Law.

Y/N by Esther Yi. It's lit fic about a Kpop stan who travels to South Korea to stalk a retired idol.

I picked it up to make fun of it, and maybe also to give it to a Kpop-loving friend of mine to make fun of her too, but I actually like the book more than I thought I would.