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I've just started reading The Wager. I'm a sucker for ship based media, and I'm hoping this'll be no exception.

It's my third book of the year after previously reading both A Clash of Kings and How to get rid of a president

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

"My Heart Is A Chainsaw" by Steven Graham Jones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just finished rewatching The Magicians, since it's my favorite darker adult magic TV Show. Now I am about to start The Magicians by Lev Grossman to see what it's like. Heard the books are more nihilistic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm currently reading Fool's Fate, the third in the Tawny Man trilogy, which itself is the 3rd trilogy in the Realm of the Elderlings sequence by Robin Hobb. I've loved every book so far and this is no exception although

spoilerI'm still grieving Nighteyes

Poor Fitz has had a shit life so far. I'm hoping he gets some sort of happiness before the end of this one.

[–] SergeantScar 1 points 10 months ago

Loved all of those books. So good! You make me want to read them all again!

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[–] 0xb 1 points 10 months ago

Hey I have The Wager in my list, but right now I'm reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, it's excellent. Going really slow because it contains so much information, I read a few pages and that sends me in a research spiral for an hour and a thoughts spirals for the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Dungeon Crawler Carl and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Sanderson

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just started raft by Stephen Baxter, little concerned when I found out there are a dozen more books, roughly.

Digging the first though, so...

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[–] vairse 0 points 10 months ago

Working through Perdido Street Station on my new Kobo. I understand the critiques on pacing, and spending too much time on world building as now, 400 pages in, races, sections of the city, creatures, and cultures are still being introduced. But it has been an enjoyable ride so far, especially with one of the main PoVs being one of my favorite tropes of just "scientist doing science"

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