Whatcha reading lately? 
It is bad but I kinda mostly stopped reading books like ten years ago. Worst guy. I dunno! I don't think to do it.
BUT, in an attempt to correct that I recently read all of Lord of the Rings, having only read fellowship before when I was like 12, and man that's a good bunch of books that makes you sad at the end
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I read A Fire Upon The Deep last month and then like 2 days after I finished it Vernor Vinge died, so I'm not sure if I should read any more novels for fear of killing the author.
started Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle (he hosts the first edition PDF for free) last year while spiraling about the death of real online game communities and worlds. i'm like 2/3rds through it iirc, it's just sitting on my ipad for when i'm not really feeling like playing something. sure does make me wish people still made online games
I am very bad at reading just like joe, but I've been reading the Animal Crossing manga when I can!
It's cute and funny lol
I am working my way through Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn saga, currently on Book 4 of the second series. Been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett the last couple years as well.
I'm reading Children of Ruin! Great science fiction.
It's the sequel to the more-famous Children of Time, which I highly recommend. Unless you're an arachnophobe, in which case stay far away.
I sat down with a quick read a few weeks ago called A Psalm for the Wild-Built, extremely good book about tea, monks, and robots. Def recommend! A good "spend an evening by a window" kinda read. It's the first in a series, so I'm excited to read more from the author!
I'm reading The Secret History at the moment, by Donna Tartt, only on audiobook (which she narrates herself!). I've heard it's great, so far it is interesting. I dunno if I'll be able to keep the habit of listening to it going but I'm gonna fuckin try
the only book i have at the moment (due to The Move) is Asimov's "Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids"
i'm only a little bit in but WOW is it interesting. a battle with push-guns!
Been reading a bunch of Berserk, have Sartre's Being and Nothingness next on the docket along with a curious volume I found at a bookstore.
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I did finish The Secret History! It ruled. Really good book. I wish I had more people to talk to about it! A book club seems like it would be a cool thing but I really trudge through books very slowly, I don't think I could keep up.
Anyway, read The Secret History
Metro book trilogy has been a really nice one to delve through slowly each night, games give you enough to play with in your imagination, and the books deviate surprisingly quick from the games, 2024 especially has near zero relation to the game last light for example.
Really like how for a few characters, the way players perceive certain characters in game, is completely different to how Artyom perceives them in the book.
I'm back reading Lord of the Rings again, which is pretty quick after last time (which was the first time I finished it). An interesting thing about LOTR to me is that, while I always liked it a lot, I wouldn't have thought, until the final third of Return of the King, that I'd ever re-read it. The real juice of the whole thing to me is in that final chunk - not just the Scouring, but the whole climax and journey home and epilogue; I found it really bittersweet and mournful and devastating, and it reframes the rest of the story in the same sort of way that an unreliable narrator twist often does. I wanted to read it again pretty quickly after finishing and deliberately held off to let it marinate, and I can see feeling the same way next time. I can see why people love this book now; previously I only thought I did.
It also made me realise how far short the films fall - they are great, for sure, but the effect I'm describing here they don't really reach for and I can't really blame them. It would have been a hell of a thing to try to put on a screen.
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