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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? July 15 (discuss.online)
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Not much change at my end, still reading Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin.

Also started volume 7 of Jujitsu Kaisen manga, by Gege Akutami.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have recently finished Breathless by Dean Koontz which was alright, pretty typical Koontz story with all the usual elements. Not one of his best but not bad per se.

Odd Thomas: You are destined to be together, again by Dean Koontz. This was just a short story that precludes all the Odd Thomas stories, very short adding a little back story. It was alright to add onto the knowledge of the series I guess but it covered a lot of ground that you already knew from going through the other books anyway so not really sure it was worth it.

Now I have started Deathlands by James Axler. I finished the first book and I'm towards the end of the second, really enjoying this so far, I think it is just going to be lots of shorter stories from within the same universe but I'm fine with that, I like the setting and the writing so far. There are so many installments (I think I have 150 or so currently) so it is definitely something I'll be dipping in and out of.

Manga wise I finished Gantz recently, I have read it before and it is probably my favourite and I enjoyed it a lot again this time! I have moved onto Cage of Eden from that which I dip into every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used to read lots of Koontz, but haven't read him in a long time.

Deathlands looks interesting, but I don't think I'll be able to get them all physically, may have to go the ebook route for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I started on Koontz maybe a year or so ago and have been working my way through his work. I like his books but he definitely has a similar theme running through a lot of his books which is making them more predictable the more I read.

With Deathlands I'm an audio book guy so I have the GraphicAudio versions which I share on soulseek if you decide you want to listen to them rather than read them.

Although the setting is very different they are kind of reminding me of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series (which I adore) for some reason so far.