Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #87

I read Camp of the Saints and I'm ready to chud out

shoot refugees nuclear nuke india environmental eco bees trees seas foxford wormwood mckrow

Demons by Dostoevsky

I haven't read any of his work before and thought I might as well try some more classic, regarded literature. It's interesting so far, bunch of intellectuals talking for the most part. I can't put my finger on why but I do like it. Previously I haven't really enjoyed classical works. I hate Peepeeens and Shakespeare.

Recently finished Spillover about zoonotic viruses. Interesting concept, and at times I really liked it. He suffered from going on and on way too long about certain things. The book needed a good 15-20% haircut and it would have been great.

Currently reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. It's been underwhelming and slighly boring so far but clearly, as I've kept reading, it cant be that bad.

Reading "The High Crusade" by Poul Anderson

It's about about an alien spaceship lands in an medieval English village during the 100 years war and tries to deply a scouting party to begin conquest, however they're BTFO by Perfidious Albion who proceed to kill all the crew except 1 prisoner who Sir Roger, Baron de Tournville intends to aid King Edward in Frnace and lead his new wonder ship into the Holy Land. HOWEVER, the Wersgorix crewman deceives them and forces the ship to land on his homeworld instead. The barbarous English peasantry,clergy and knights then conquer their alien Empire and impose gavalkind English feuldalism on them after the Christian clergy with them learn how their technology works lmao

Just finished: Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (a horror novel set during the height of the Black Death in France)

Now reading: Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

Metaphysics of War. Fits very much into the idealized Black Metal lifestyle of fighting for honour and the Pagan past, if you're into that sort of stuff.

the constitution

i have the interests of an old man

my side of the mountain kino.

I was gifted Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Never read it before but now I can learn how "Wubba-Lubba-Dub-Dub" is a cryptic reference to it

I am currently rereading the manual for BUG! for the Sega Saturn

Been reading the Bobiverse, currently on Not Till We Are Lost

It's kinda dorky and a lot of it may not necessarily be completely realistic in the fact that the dude's essentially a fricking human uploaded von Neumann Universal Constructor and therefore could just like continually construct shit and so instead of taking all of the survivors of a global war off of earth and then taking them to like epsilon eridani or whatever the frick doesn't necessarily make sense because you could just use fricking any of the asteroids or maybe a moon or two to make McKendree cylinders and just stick the whole population in those while the earth is like being unfricked.

But yeah kinda fun book and I guess you need to move them out of the solar system to advance the plot.

Started reading Mason & Dixon (Pynchon). I am not far enough in it to decide whether it's good or not. He starts off with the narrator writing in Ye Old Englishe which is amusing for like a quarter of a page, after which it starts to get on my nerves. So I flipped to about page 200 to see if he was still doing it and he had stopped, so I decided to keep reading it for now.

Startet reading Circle of inevitably again after stopping for quite a while, I am hundreds of chapters behind.

Anyway, Lumian has started a polycule with the , her cis lesbian lover and a psychiatrist that does not know he is part of it yet.

I'm reading The Clockwork Rocket. I picked it up because I generally like Greg Egan. Kinda weird alternative physics shit going on and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. There's also a sociological/abnormal life cycle thing going on with the creatures that are the main characters.

I'm reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombi. It is way better than brando sando, Joe is actually funny sometimes. The interrogator is suuuper boring though. Literally page after page of the same crap.

Finished The Elementals by Malcom McDowell, it was .. fine I guess, some of the ideas were decent but none of the characters were remarkable.

Tried to pick back up A House With Good Bones, but it still sucks so I put it down again.

Started and finished I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones, I tried reading The Only Good Indians by him last year and put it down because it's whiny and I didn't care. And this book is also similar, the main character is whiny and unlikeable but the premise is good and kept me interested. Unsurprisingly, he has to write in some injun BS, but it wasn't a lot. My main gripes with it were the whiny MC and also it must've been written at like 7th grade level, any foreshadowing or twists or things like that were sooo apparent, but the premise was good enough for me to overlook it.

Just started I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells, not too far in it, but having the MC being a teenager in school is putting me off a bit, but we'll see where it goes.

The book of pepe

is loong and booring

it's full of memes

and paasta