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I've put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It's mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I'm going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)

At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?

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[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Empire of Man.

[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Reading through Book of the New Sun. Definitely an underrated sci fi series.

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[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not a big book reader, but a friend got me "The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works". It's sitting on my nightstand when I can motivate to crack a boot. The book I finished before it was "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" by Stephen Hawking.

I like reading works from Scientists. I can't understand their research papers because of the math, but I enjoy the works they do for the layman.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

About to finish Snow Crash, and I was just thinking about reading Seveneves afterwards. Is it good? How does it compare to Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash (the only other Stephenson books I've read)?

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[-] valen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just finished reading an older series: Nine Princes in Amber. Doesn't age as well as I'd like.

[-] RichardBonham@lemmy.ninja 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I enjoyed them when I was a college student but on later re-reading Corwin just comes across as a two-dimensional good-hearted wise guy who can take care of himself. Kind of a fantasy version of early-generation science fiction a la Asimov or Heinlein.

[-] A_S_B@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

I´m reading select texts about what is grassroots-community action. It has been quite nice. The book is in Portuguese though.

[-] morsebipbip@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Recently finished The Expanse series and Three Body Problem series, those were both great adventures. I'm getting started on All Tomorrows now

[-] BakedBeans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm reading the Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, which is the first book of the Kane's Chronicles. I'm also reading Queen of Shadows by Sarah j. Maas.

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[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I bought both Asimov collections, and after reading the I, Robot edition pictured above, I started Prelude to Foundation.

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[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Start WoT now, and you might finish by Christmas

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I guess I just read slow in my old age, took me about 10 months, although generally the only opportunity I get to read is after the kids go to bed and before I fall asleep.

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[-] N0_Varak@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Just fulinished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Didn't enjoy as much as A Fire Upon the Deep, but it was still a good space opera. Some uncomfortable sex scenes though.

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[-] ghashul@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

Last day of my vacation and I've begun my third book in as many days. Just read Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, followed by A Winter Grave by Peter May. Both books were great, hence why I swallowed them so fast.

Have just started on Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, and so far it seems promising.

[-] Razzmadazz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Picked up 2 different series by Will Wight cause they were free on amazon for a while, and very impressed

Halfway through Cradle, on book 6 and it's actually really good; a naruto-eque world with well thought out power progression, great world building and characters, with plenty of peril and few dull moments

[-] phario@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not reading par se but I’m an audiobook fan and also a fan of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (Legends). I’m enjoying listening to the new recordings of the first Thrawn trilogy.

These re-recordings will probably be the last of its kind, given Disney’s declaration of non-canon.

[-] DrMango@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Audiobooks definitely count as reading.

When people say they "enjoy reading" they are almost certainly not saying they "enjoy dragging their eyes across a page of text." If you're getting the content into your brain, you're reading!

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