"What book are ye reading ritemeow?"

"YOU'RE AN ANIMAL"  by Jardine Libaire

Murder bot is awesome! I loved that series. 

I just finished up the Millennium trilogy (girl with The dragon tattoo, etc) and I'm looking for my next read. Been enjoying lighter, gripping reading because I'm exhausted all the time these days. I read 3 body problem twice - any recommendations for good modern sci-fi? 

Ira OMCwrote:

Murder bot is awesome! I loved that series. 

I just finished up the Millennium trilogy (girl with The dragon tattoo, etc) and I'm looking for my next read. Been enjoying lighter, gripping reading because I'm exhausted all the time these days. I read 3 body problem twice - any recommendations for good modern sci-fi? 

Lockstep is an interesting sci-fi book were faster than light travel was never discovered.

A quick reading epic sci-fi series is the Frontier Saga 

It’s not modern but, Final Blackout is very good. 

Hard boiled in Berlin. Too early to tell. 

DNF

I'm Knot!

Alistair Reynolds is my favorite scifi author.  House of Suns is a good book to start with.

Escape From Freedom, Erich Fromm, and Night, by Elie Wiesel.

I just started The Overstory by Richard Powers and wow, it’s something else. The writing’s beautiful, a bit slow here and there, but really thoughtful and layered. It’s one of those books that makes you see trees in a totally different way.

I remember Night being great, although haunting.

Just finished East of Eden. All I can say is that it's fantastic.

Dracula was pretty good, I enjoyed the classic-ness of everything that it stands for and all that originates from it within the genre, but I don't think Gothic stuff is my speed. 

Not totally sure what's next: Childhood's End, The Dispossessed, The Catcher in the Rye, Paradise Lost, In Cold Blood, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lolita, The Trial, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Into Thin Air. 

I've got all the above on hand, but they're packed up in a box (moving). I'll probably just crack the box open and start reading whatever is on top, unless one of you encourages me to dig for a specific one.   

I really enjoyed The Overstory Julia. Standout among many.

Trevor, many good ones there.

I have to start something new tonight. 

I have started The Bee Keeper of Aleppo. Quietly reading, the house wide open to cool evening temperatures. Feels like a tree house. Birds and squirrels scratching about. A dog barks in the distance. No motors, no voices. After some fine granite climbing in the high country this morning; life is good. 

Trevor Kerberwrote:

I remember Night being great, although haunting.

Just finished East of Eden. All I can say is that it's fantastic.

Dracula was pretty good, I enjoyed the classic-ness of everything that it stands for and all that originates from it within the genre, but I don't think Gothic stuff is my speed. 

Not totally sure what's next: Childhood's End, The Dispossessed, The Catcher in the Rye, Paradise Lost, In Cold Blood, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lolita, The Trial, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Into Thin Air. 

I've got all the above on hand, but they're packed up in a box (moving). I'll probably just crack the box open and start reading whatever is on top, unless one of you encourages me to dig for a specific one.   

Of your selection, l'd suggest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  Sometimes a Great Notion aint too bad.  The Climb complinents Into Thin Air well and aught be a follow-up read to it.   

Trevor Kerberwrote:

I remember Night being great, although haunting.

Just finished East of Eden. All I can say is that it's fantastic.

Dracula was pretty good, I enjoyed the classic-ness of everything that it stands for and all that originates from it within the genre, but I don't think Gothic stuff is my speed. 

Not totally sure what's next: Childhood's End, The Dispossessed, The Catcher in the Rye, Paradise Lost, In Cold Blood, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lolita, The Trial, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Into Thin Air. 

I've got all the above on hand, but they're packed up in a box (moving). I'll probably just crack the box open and start reading whatever is on top, unless one of you encourages me to dig for a specific one.   

I found 'Into Thin Air' a very good read. 

Trevor Kerberwrote:

I remember Night being great, although haunting.

Just finished East of Eden. All I can say is that it's fantastic.

Dracula was pretty good, I enjoyed the classic-ness of everything that it stands for and all that originates from it within the genre, but I don't think Gothic stuff is my speed. 

Not totally sure what's next: Childhood's End, The Dispossessed, The Catcher in the Rye, Paradise Lost, In Cold Blood, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lolita, The Trial, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Into Thin Air. 

I've got all the above on hand, but they're packed up in a box (moving). I'll probably just crack the box open and start reading whatever is on top, unless one of you encourages me to dig for a specific one.   

What a great list!

Hard to go wrong there!

I've read seven of them and I agree that "One Flew" and "Into Thin Air" were both great.  I also loved Childhood, Dispossessed, and Catcher.  Lolita was disturbing! In Cold Blood was also disturbing but so good.  

I'm just starting "Sea of Tranquility" which my daughter, who took a Sci fi novel class this last semester in college, loved.  

Finished "Secret Hours" by Herron yesterday.  VERY slow start but, as always, great finish.

Lolita has some astounding wordcraft. If you take public transit, maybe get a copy with a small form factor so you can hide it inside a more socially acceptable book ...

Speaking of Nabokov, anyone enjoy Pale Fire? I want to read it just to see what the route on Moses was referencing. 

Pale Fire is excellent! The way the two narratives are interwoven with the poem is masterfully done. If you like Nabokov’s other work, Pale Fire is absolutely worth reading, both for the execution of the concept and the writing itself.

The narrator in Lolita is a pretentious piece of shit and a pedophile, and the book is written believably for both. There's a lot of archaic vocabulary (literally many words per page that absolutely no one uses, not garden-variety SAT words like obstreperous and pulchritudinous, but way more obscure) and victim-blaming. Nabokov was skillful in making you understand that the narrator is a creep to be despised, while using that as a cover to wax poetic about sex with a 12-year-old girl. Be forewarned. 

Just finished, "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell.

Woah, very well written but not for the faint of heart. Really tough to read at points.

All of the books I listed are packed into boxes for my upcoming move, so I grabbed Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, off of a shelf that hadn't been torn down yet. 

I'm adding Pale Fire to the list.

Have I mentioned that I love this thread? 

Trevor Kerberwrote:

All of the books I listed are packed into boxes for my upcoming move, so I grabbed Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, off of a shelf that hadn't been torn down yet. 

I'm adding Pale Fire to the list.

Have I mentioned that I love this thread? 

I've read "The Buried Giant" by Ishiguro and really loved it but nothing else by them.

You'll have to let me know what you think!