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[–] saint@group.lt 1 points 1 year ago

Reading: Everything is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson Listening: Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions by J.S. Morin, Mikael Naramore (Narrator)

[–] account_93@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The Time Hunters by Carl Ashmore, It's target audience is young but I enjoy books for any age so it's an easy read!

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Not a book, but a series. 2nd book specifically of the manga series Black Bird.

My brother and sister-in-law got me a box set of it not knowing it's a shoujo series (less action and more romance focused) and so far it's interesting enough to keep me interested.

[–] Brochetudo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The latest Thrawn book

[–] zemon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Kazohinia by SΓ‘ndor SzathmΓ‘ri. It's a fun double dystopia, especially fun once you recognize our own world.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Latest Miss Peregrine book. Recently found out there were three more since I last read it, so I've been catching up this week.

[–] MildlyIncorrect@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Match Game, book 14 of the series Expeditionary Force.

[–] ComradeR@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.

[–] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 1 points 1 year ago

I need to pick Cracker! Back up, i started reading it in 8th grade by borrowing it from my English teacher, found it years later on amazon. I just have an issue with not wanting to read books anymore after havign the fun sucked out of them due to public school book tests.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Fight Club, I can't get myself to finish it, knowing how it ends because of the movie does not help either.

Dark Age by Pierce Brown, part of the Red Rising series

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

I usually don't stay engaged with non-fiction, but this book I couldn't put down.

I am reading the first book of the series Empire of the Moghul right now.

Classified as historical fiction, it is very interesting to see how the kingdoms evolved and spread in Central Asia.

Segans " The Demon Haunted World"

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Actually I'm at 52%. The reason I stopped because of exams

[–] str82L@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ministry for the Future. So good, so painful.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if it counts as "in the middle", but I left off reading a book about heaven 8 had borrowed from my mom before I lost religion, and completely lost interest in it.

Don't think I'll ever go back, but that's the book I left unfinished. Haven't read anything in years. I was big on audiobooks for a while before I couldn't afford audible anymore.

Used to have a job that I could listen while I worked on my own and because of that I was able to go through a bunch of them.

One I get through my current medical condition (probably a few years off) and I go back to work, I hope I get another job like that.

[–] ox0r@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The enterprise of death, it's a fun read

[–] Hepco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pride and Prejudice, it's fine so far

[–] Dejers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Currently listening through Worm again. I read it the first time, now I'm listening and it's just as good as I remember it.

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site 1 points 1 year ago

The Hooligans of Kandahar by Joe Kassabian.

[–] countflacula@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Count Zero by William Gibson

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fellowship of the Ring but also Children of Hurin

[–] visiblink@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Brezhnev by Susanne Schattenberg

[–] Tulibo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky and for non fiction, The Friendly Orange Glow, a history of the Plato system. It's an old online community from like the 80s.

Actual reading: Dune. listening to: [The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig](Listen to Wanderers by Chuck Wendig on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/198489174X?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007)

[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Diary of a Drug Addict by Alister Crowley

  • Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator's "voice".

[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

[–] pete@social.cyano.at 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Necropolis" (Gaunt's Ghosts 3) by Dan Abnett. Whole lot of Warhammer 40k goodness.

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