• What book is currently on your nightstand?
  • Who is the author?
  • What genre?
  • How do you like it?
  • Would you recommend it to others?
  • Ysverine@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m currently reading Dune by Frank Herbert. I tried to read it once when I was in my early teens and didn’t finish, but I figured I’d give it another go with all the hype over the recent TV adaptation. I’ve just passed the point where I gave up before (~150 pages) and I’m kicking myself, because it turns out I stopped just short of where all the action seems to really get going. The book is front-loaded with a lot of worldbuilding by way of sci-fi/fantasy terms presented without much context, so I can understand why my younger self got bored and gave up. I’m really enjoying it this time around though, I think I’m a lot more patient as a reader now than I used to be.

    • WaDef7@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I am also reading through dune right now, I’m enjoying it so far. I was fine with the world building, partly because I really liked the sets in the movie and also because I found it novel compared to the very generic space faring stuff or Tolkien rip-off you get as a backdrop in sci-fi and fantasy respectively.

      I’m also really enjoying a lot of the environmental musings in the book, after I finish it I will look up more about Frank Herbert’s relation to these topics, I get the feeling there’s something about it.

  • BeardedDragon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I just finished the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I can absolutely recommend it if you love fantasy, mystery and horror. I didn’t not make up my mind what to read next, but the Witcher books are already on my Kindle.

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      1 year ago

      I know King is popular, and I liked a lot of the ride, but he always seems to go out of his way to write the darkest “there’s no point to anything” anticlimactic endings. It was definitely an interesting premise and world, but the conclusion was super unsatisfying.

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        1 year ago

        I loved the ending. I think it perfectly symbolizes, how the journey is more important than the ending in stories.

  • slowmovingtarget@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Personal reading: Models of the Mind by Grace Lindsay

    Good take on the history and current state of modern neuroscience and its interconnectedness with modern machine learning and data science.

    Reading to kiddo: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

    I have a sore throat already from doing all the voices, what with all the shouting from Uncle Vernon and Hagrid in the first few chapters.

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        1 year ago

        Close enough to Harry’s age in the first book. Old enough that we can successfully contextualize the bad behavior depicted in the book.