What are you reading right now?

adidasss · 01-30-2021, 02:34 AM

James Baldwin - Go tell it on a mountain

First thing I'm reading by him. I was wary but this is turning out to be excellent. I love a mix of fact and fiction, and being a lapsed catholic, the whole faith angle is very relatable.

OccultHawk · 01-31-2021, 09:09 PM

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

OccultHawk · 01-31-2021, 09:33 PM

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So thrilled about my latest literary acquisitions! I’ve continued to build a library of deluxe omnibus editions of authors from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Latest additions include the second installment of 100 Ray Bradbury stories hand-selected by the author to accompany the first 100 stories volume I acquired, as well as The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells.

These now join my copies of the largest and most exhaustive collections of Asimov's science fiction ever printed and The Collected Novels of Jules Verne. And by continuing to track down volumes of near-equal length, the symmetry of their arrangement on the coffee table in my sitting room is just icing on the bibliophilic cake!

My favorite Asimov are the short stories and I love Bradbury’s short stories too. Some of those set on Mars are absolutely surreal. They transcend time. Sci-fi can still be really fun even when it’s dated but that stuff doesn’t get dated.

OccultHawk · 01-31-2021, 09:34 PM

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It’s good to read but don’t expect Freud to offer anything useful re: your well-being.

The Batlord · 01-31-2021, 09:40 PM

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Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

There's a series of video games based on this and I've only played the first one but it knocks hard.

OccultHawk · 01-31-2021, 10:02 PM

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There's a series of video games based on this and I've only played the first one but it knocks hard.

I read that. The book is really popular but I found it a little clumsy and not always as intriguing has the premise might have your hopes up. Post nuclear apocalypse- it’s so up my alley I thought it was can’t lose and it was really good at times - it’s probably more interesting to learn the game while reading the novel but I don’t play video games and can’t do first person shooter at all.

I think you might go in for this book more than I did tbh

Trollheart · 02-01-2021, 01:26 PM

Just got to the part where Monseignur runs over a poor man's child, kills it, and tosses him a gold coin saying "what about my horses?!" ****. French ****. Hope he loses his head and not in a single stroke either.

OccultHawk · 02-01-2021, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Just got to the part where Monseignur runs over a poor man's child, kills it, and tosses him a gold coin saying "what about my horses?!" ****. French ****. Hope he loses his head and not in a single stroke either.

I like dickends.

The Batlord · 02-01-2021, 02:39 PM

I like tale and two titties.

OccultHawk · 02-01-2021, 03:04 PM

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I like tale and two titties.

Nice!

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Just got to the part where Monseignur runs over a poor man's child, kills it, and tosses him a gold coin saying "what about my horses?!" **. French *. Hope he loses his head and not in a single stroke either. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018*