What book are you reading, ιf' - Iff you read books

[Narz]

50p from the charity shop

 

[Narz]

Ended Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Some chapters are just how the author used to enjoyed hipster look like cafes, however it is an excellent book which gives perspective on how "the algorithm" is flattening culture and our decision making

put a reserve on that one

 

[bene_legionary]

I went back to BMV Books in Toronto to get the rest of the Martin Beck / The Story of Crime series, and found all of them except the next one in the series

So while I'm waiting for a bookstore in Guelph to have The Fire Engine That Disappeared delivered I'm now working on The French Lieutenant's Woman. So far, intriguing... I like how it has described characters through others' actions. The eponymous Woman, as well as the vicar of Lyme.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Ian Fleming's 007 novels.

Listen to 11 of them here, click for playlist -

Dapper -

Fleming had first mentioned to friends during the war that he wanted to write a spy novel, an ambition he achieved within two months with Casino Royale. He started writing the book at Goldeneye on 15 January 1952, and was finished writing no later than 16 February 1952, averaging more than 2,000 words per day.

Bond Girl covers -

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The Dispossessed is part of Ursula Le Guin's "Hainish cycle" of sci-fi novels. It concerns a planet, Urras, and its moon, Anarres, in the Tau Ceti system. The latter has a society based on anarchism, originally promulgated by exiles from Urras, and until the main events of the book, cut off from the homeworld. The protagonist is a brilliant Anarresti theoretical physicist who is close to publishing a unified field theory, and the work follows his adventures as he goes to Urras to attempt to publish it. While some of the depictions of the future societies are rather dated (people using paper cheques when there's interstellar travel?), the themes explored are timeless for human societies. Some of these are the conflict between individual activities and social cohesion, how a revolution might backslide, and above all, how utopias can be amibguous (the novel's subtitle) and relative.

 

[Smellincoffee]

The Dispossessed is part of Ursula Le Guin's "Hainish cycle" of sci-fi novels. It concerns a planet, Urras, and its moon, Anarres, in the Tau Ceti system. The latter has a society based on anarchism, originally promulgated by exiles from Urras, and until the main events of the book, cut off from the homeworld. The protagonist is a brilliant Anarresti theoretical physicist who is close to publishing a unified field theory, and the work follows his adventures as he goes to Urras to attempt to publish it. While some of the depictions of the future societies are rather dated (people using paper cheques when there's interstellar travel?), the themes explored are timeless for human societies. Some of these are the conflict between individual activities and social cohesion, how a revolution might backslide, and above all, how utopias can be amibguous and relative.

Read that last year, and it was my first le Guin. Quite interesting. I wish I'd read it back in 2010 - 2011 when I identified as a left-libertarian and was reading a lot of Emma Goldman.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Read that last year, and it was my first le Guin. Quite interesting. I wish I'd read it back in 2010 - 2011 when I identified as a left-libertarian and was reading a lot of Emma Goldman.

LeGuin's books are mostly excellent. You should read more of them.

 

[Smellincoffee]

LeGuin's books are mostly excellent. You should read more of them.

Planning on it! Left Hand of Darkness is in my TBR pile. As much as I read SF, there are a lot of authors I'm only now getting to! (Herbert and le Guin, both just last year).

 

[Birdjaguar]

Amber series by Roger Zelansky.
Jack of Shadows

Roger Zelazny - Book Series In Order

Complete order of Roger Zelazny books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.

www.bookseriesinorder.com

Cluster by Piers Anthony

Cluster (novels) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Josu]

Ended Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
Quite bad edition and translation. Book itself is brilliant. Clear. Concise. Just what I was looking for in this moment. I suppose that right now, people like me, is the target audience of this book.

Started Happycracy. How the Science of Happiness Controls our Lives by Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz

 

[Smellincoffee]

Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us, Vybarr Cregan-Reid

 

[Josu]

Ended The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
First time I read it I was 14 or 15 years old, I enjoyed it then, but I did not catch all this Dulcinian and XII century's background.
30 year ago I considered a good book, but I considered better the movie with Sean Connery. Now I consider that the book is much better and that the movie is entertaining, but a terrible adaptation.
I have enjoyed the book a lot more now.

Started The evening and the morning by Ken Follet

 

[JollyRoger]

 

[Birdjaguar]

Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty. The Mech wars of 2083 and AI nations. Just started its 700 pages.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty. The Mech wars of 2083 and AI nations. Just started its 700 pages.

This is turning out to be excellent. I'm 200 pages in. The AI machine world-building is very good as is the story that is unfolding.

 

[Narz]

 

[Ordnael]

Finished House Corrino.
The prequels have a nice, solid story and truly add to Frank Herbert's original Dune.
Dune - House Corrino shows the most sadistic side of Shaddam, while failing spectacularly to tighten a firmer grip on the imperium. The only plot point not picked on the last of the prequels on the way to Dune was why/how Wanna was kidnapped by the Baron to manipulate Doctor Yueh.
The prequels don't really explain why the Harkonnens hate so much the Atreides. It's not like during the 40years or so that the prequels span the Atreides do anything to aggravate the Harkonnens, while the opposite happens more than once. My final remark goes to the Bene-Tleilax who are fully exposed by the prequels as the most disgusting/evil/sadistic race/house on the imperium.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Finished House Corrino.
The prequels have a nice, solid story and truly add to Frank Herbert's original Dune.
Dune - House Corrino shows the most sadistic side of Shaddam, while failing spectacularly to tighten a firmer grip on the imperium. The only plot point not picked on the last of the prequels on the way to Dune was why/how Wanna was kidnapped by the Baron to manipulate Doctor Yueh.
The prequels don't really explain why the Harkonnens hate so much the Atreides. It's not like during the 40years or so that the prequels span the Atreides do anything to aggravate the Harkonnens, while the opposite happens more than once. My final remark goes to the Bene-Tleilax who are fully exposed by the prequels as the most disgusting/evil/sadistic race/house on the imperium.

I have one that's about Leto I, but haven't started it yet.

Just finished a re-read of The Unsettling of America; beginning a re-read of small is beautiful.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Fahrenheit 451.

 

[Ordnael]

I have one that's about Leto I, but haven't started it yet.

This one?

Dune: The Duke of Caladan

Dune: The Duke of Caladan is a 2020 science-fiction novel. Co-written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the book was published on October 13, 2020. The novel is the first in The Caladan Trilogy, a series "focused on Duke Leto, Lady Jessica, and Paul, leading directly to the events in" the...

dune.fandom.com

From this wiki I guess this books happens after the Dune: House Corrino book I just read, probably answers to the manipulation of Doctor Yueh plot. Guess I should pick on The Caladan Trilogy before I do another proper read of Frank Herbert's original.