I started cycling a few weeks ago so I’ve been knocking out audio books every few days. The burnout Fix was an exceptional book if the grind at work has been wearing you down. Just started “Open” Agassi’s autobiography. 1 hour in and I can’t believe I never read this. He does such a great time breaking down the loneliness of playing tennis in the first few minutes. Excited to finish it. Also listened to “The Sixth Extinction”. Didn’t hold my attention well but overall it was an interesting listen.
Another Kindle recommendation.... but this was a very good book that admittingly took three tries to get into. Really a love it or hate it book. Don't get too excited about "lesbian necromancers...in space....".... but here's a blurb: This is like Clue but in a fantasy setting. Once I got past the first 15-20% of the book, I couldn't put it down. It just really dumps you into this world without any explanation to all these weird customs and jargon. If you can get past it, it's just a really interesting story in an interesting world with interesting characters. There's 4 books planned so far, with three released.
Going to give this a shot. I've read so many books that I get tired of the same tropes, so I seek out new ideas. Thanks!
Mastering Technical Sales by John Care and Chris White's 6 Habits of Highly Effective Engineers (Sales) books. Nothing for fun right now ,but they are good reads for the Sales world.
Finished the first Red Rising trilogy. It's so good, well paced, lots of action. But it's too much, like trying to eat an entire cheesecake at once, so I'm taking a break before starting the second trilogy (I think book 6 isn't due out for a few months anyway). Read Cabin at the End of the World, which is what the upcoming M. Night movie Knock at the Cabin Door is based on. It was pretty good, but not mind-blowing like a lot of reviews on Amazon mentioned. Started 14 by Peter Clines. It's sort of a mystery/danger 'room' (the room being an entire building) book that has ties to Lovecraftian horror, although so far it's not horror. Very well written and paced, I think I will keep reading this author. Totally forgot about Gideon the Ninth from @dmoneybangbang 's recommendation. I'll read that next.
I need to check out Stephen King's new book, Fairy Tale. Haven't read much of his recent stuff (just looked, most recent novel of his was Dark Tower VII, but I've read a couple of short story collections), but this one is getting very good reviews and is described as an old-fashioned Stephen King fantasy-horror epic.
Still going through all the Star Wars EU/Legends novels chronologically and am now at the post episode 3 timeline where the remaining Jedi are having to survive and build new lives. Shame how Disney had such an abundance of existing material at their hands but dismissed it all for this **** new trilogy that butchers everything.
Steve-O Professional Idiot How is he alive? Also… I was unaware they were straight shooting p*rn during the jackass days.
Finishing up "A Gentleman in Moscow" which I've absolutely loved...and starting the Cobain biography, "Heaver than Heaven."
I'm nearly finished with the Dandelion Dynasty tetralogy by Ken Liu. It's the most enjoyable read for me in nearly 20 years. Each book delves more and more into philosophy and (mostly primitive) technology as organizing principles among rival groups.
I don't know if what I'm most highly recommending has been mentioned here (and if I already have and forgot, blame a trip earlier today to an emergency room for some stitches on my noggin), but they are superb works of fiction, a trio of novels beginning with Vindolanda, followed by The Encircling Sea, and ending with Brigantia. They are written by an Oxford educated historian, Adrian Goldsworthy, and I was very surprised that a talented author of several critically acclaimed histories of Rome (and I own a few) could turn his hand to writing fiction about the era he loves and do it so fantastically well. The novels take place in Britain around 100AD, a period when Rome's grip over the island is both incomplete and unsettled. One of the 4 legions Rome had stationed there has been withdrawn due to trouble elsewhere in the empire, and the tribes of the island are sensing Rome's weakness. The battle scenes, and there are several, are authentic and vicious, the characters well drawn, the main character especially so, and the plot sucks you in and won't let you go. I've read a great deal of fiction about ancient Rome, and this definitely ranks with the best.
