What are you reading?

[DownInFlames]

Stephen King has a new dark fantasy novel coming out next week. It’s getting great reviews so I’ll probably grab it. Right now I’m reading John le Carré’s Call For The Dead.

[ah123]

Just finished the Farseer trilogy by Robin Cobb. Really enjoyed that one

[photon]

I recently found a series I read as a kid.. The Iron Tower by Dennis L. McKiernan.

Listened to it and while it was neat as nostalgia from reading it when I was young, I can't believe how much of a ripoff of LotR it is. Like search and replace names level ripoff.

I still enjoyed it so if you ever want to re-experience LotR but with different names, places, and inferior then that's your series.

[Puppet Guy]

I just finished Dante's Indiana, by Randy Boyagoda. It's a satire about a Canadian English professor who gets a job helping start up a Dante's Inferno-based theme park in Middle America. Funny read with some good barbs. It's the middle part of a trilogy (third book pending) but I thought it stood up pretty good on it's own.

[scotty2hotty]

Can anyone recommend a book about consciousness / reality / dimensions / string theory type stuff?

[oldschoolcalgary]

I recently read The Forever War, which is considered one of the great early sci fi book by Joe Haldeman. Really interesting ideas and concepts.

This made me want to read some of the other classic sci fi books from that era like Solaris, Roadside Picnic, The Stars My Destination, the Dispossessed, the Left Hand of God, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Canticle for Leibowitz etc

Luckily these older novels tend to be relatively short.

On a side note I just finished Project Hail Mary - fun read, very much like The Martian, that I would recommend... They are adapting this into a movie with Ryan Gosling and... Emma Stone?!

https://twitter.com/user/status/1509969004781203457

I love Emma Stone, but no idea how she is going to play Rocky (for those who read the book, they know what I mean).

Hopefully, they'll pull off some magic, like how Arrival was completely different than The Story of Your Life, but still worked great... Just hope they don't somehow turn it into something its not, like a romance.

[photon]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

Can anyone recommend a book about consciousness / reality / dimensions / string theory type stuff?

Something Deeply Hidden by Sean M. Carroll is good, I find his style really good for me.

More into reality/dimensions type stuff, not going to have anything about consciousness. The book spends lots of time talking about the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics.

Brian Greene has The Elegant Universe which I think I read some of though it's from 2010, not sure if he's got anything newer on the subject. Not sure of anything newer out there about it.

Again I don't think you'll get any consciousness stuff from Greene either other than to say consciousness arises from the natural universe.

[jayswin]

Damnit Photon, I was coming to recommend Something Deeply Hidden! Such an amazingly written book. scotty2hotty you should definitely read that one.

[GordonBlue]

just finished this one. It's well worth your time.

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the Indian War"

[savemedrzaius]

On the first page of this thread people were talking about Dune, I've got a long holiday so bought the 6 books written by Frank Herbert.

Right now I'm on book 3 and wooo boy, what a series. This is a deep and complex series. It's political, philosophical, religious. I love it.

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

Can anyone recommend a book about consciousness / reality / dimensions / string theory type stuff?

Blindsight by Peter Watts. He's canadian.. crazy book

[Puppet Guy]

Re-reading Grey Seas Under by Farley Mowat. It's non-fiction about a deep-sea salvage boat off the East Coast during WW2.

[Redliner]

Just finished Bono's new book "Surrender". It's very "Bono" but a super interesting read, especially if you're a U2 fan.

[manwiches]

Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary

I recently read The Forever War, which is considered one of the great early sci fi book by Joe Haldeman. Really interesting ideas and concepts.

This made me want to read some of the other classic sci fi books from that era like Solaris, Roadside Picnic, The Stars My Destination, the Dispossessed, the Left Hand of God, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Canticle for Leibowitz etc

Luckily these older novels tend to be relatively short.

On a side note I just finished Project Hail Mary - fun read, very much like The Martian, that I would recommend... They are adapting this into a movie with Ryan Gosling and... Emma Stone?!

https://twitter.com/user/status/1509969004781203457

i absolutely loved the book.

With them casting Emma Stone, sounds like a Gamora/Quill type of "connection" now.

Not sure how i feel about that, but I'd rather them have stayed a bit more true to the true Rocky. But i get how that wouldn't translate to screen so well either.

I'm excited either way. I just listened to the audiobook (after reading the book previously), and it is a must listen, even if you've read it.

I love Emma Stone, but no idea how she is going to play Rocky (for those who read the book, they know what I mean).

Hopefully, they'll pull off some magic, like how Arrival was completely different than The Story of Your Life, but still worked great... Just hope they don't somehow turn it into something its not, like a romance.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by manwiches

i absolutely loved the book.

With them casting Emma Stone, sounds like a Gamora/Quill type of "connection" now.

Not sure how i feel about that, but I'd rather them have stayed a bit more true to the true Rocky. But i get how that wouldn't translate to screen so well either.

I'm excited either way. I just listened to the audiobook (after reading the book previously), and it is a must listen, even if you've read it.

I love Emma Stone, but no idea how she is going to play Rocky (for those who read the book, they know what I mean).

Hopefully, they'll pull off some magic, like how Arrival was completely different than The Story of Your Life, but still worked great... Just hope they don't somehow turn it into something its not, like a romance.

I read Project Hail Mary and it was fun, and I figured it would be made as a movie, but I don't get how Emma Stone is going to pull off Rocky either.

[kermitology]

Yeah, why does Rocky need to be played a by a person? Rocky communicates musically and the relationship isn’t romantic at all. Plus the whole ammonia and pressure thing. This seems like a poor adaptation.

That was a good book, I have a thing for broken English humour. It was very similar to The Martian, but still different enough. I don’t think the movie will be as good as the book. I just don’t get the characterization of the movie version of Rocky.

[Swift]

Currently reading Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation where he writes about 12 of his favourite films of the New Hollywood era. If you've ever watched him being interviewed, he can obviously be a bit grating at times, but I'll watch/read anything he puts out.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

I read Project Hail Mary and it was fun, and I figured it would be made as a movie, but I don't get how Emma Stone is going to pull off Rocky either.

Woke Hollywood has gone too far, gave her the role when clearly it should have been Andy Serkis doing mocap!

[Shazam]

Reading The Three Body Problem trilogy in four parts. Horror sci-fi, but not horror like horror movies.

[Bigtime]

I'm currently on book 2 of the Flintlock Fantasty trilogy, "Wrath of Empire". It's the sequel trilogy to the Powder Mage Trilogy, set 10 years later.

I like this series unique take on a fantasy setting, choosing to put it in a Napoleonic historical tech era with some magical elements. So you get old school rifles with bayonets and still heavy cavalry, and then mix in some different types of magic users. Then add a bunch of politic intrigue.