I asked this question a few months ago and figure I’d ask every few months because it was great to see the large response and it was nice to get book recommendations to add to my ever expanding pile to read. The book I most recently finished was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein and I’m currently reading The Strong Shall Live which is a series of short stories by Louis L’Amour. I have found a ton of his books at yard sales and they are usually sold for a quarter or 50 cents a piece so I have quite a few and this is the first one I’m reading. Also found the book Lonesome Dove along with L’Amour’s stuff. Anyway, what are yall reading?
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Last book - Lords of Uncrearion by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
I got 1/4 into it and shelved it. Tbh it took a decent amount of effort to get through the previous two. I find the authors world interesting but I found the plot to plod along and I don't particularly like the main character. Hysterical and whiny comes to mind.
Currently reading - The whole Xeelee Sequence by Stephen Baxster. Much better.
Honourable mention if you want to subject yourself to something truly God awful - Lone Huntress by Andrew Miller. Got about 10 pages in and almost dropped stone dead through sheer unadulterated weapons grade cringe.
I have some Stephen Baxter but have only read a short story so far. What is Xeelee Sequence about?
What made that other book cringe?
The vague plot is human expansion in the galaxy but the whole series is set over hundreds of thousands of years. Each book is self contained from each other but all set at some point in said universe.
As for the second one, well, I had to suffer it so now you do too. I suggest z library for a nice free copy. Although it's not worth the power used downloading it.