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I've put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It's mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I'm going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.
Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)
At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?
Just finished Frugal Wizards Guide, by Sanderson.
It wasn't what I was expecting, but found it weird and fun. As per most of Sanderson's books, I fell down the sanderlanch, and read it in 2 days.
About to finish Snow Crash, and I was just thinking about reading Seveneves afterwards. Is it good? How does it compare to Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash (the only other Stephenson books I've read)?
Seveneves is fantastic, one of my favorites. My favorite Stevenson books are probably Cryptonomicon>Anathem>Seveneves>Reamde
I’m not reading par se but I’m an audiobook fan and also a fan of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (Legends). I’m enjoying listening to the new recordings of the first Thrawn trilogy.
These re-recordings will probably be the last of its kind, given Disney’s declaration of non-canon.
I bought both Asimov collections, and after reading the I, Robot edition pictured above, I started Prelude to Foundation.
Where did you acquire an Asimov collection, what do they look like and how much were they? This sounds like a set I would be interested in.
They are editions from Harper Collins, I ordered them from Amazon, there is one for all the robot books and one for the Foundation series. They look great next to each other too, because one has inverted colors from the other on the spines (one is purple with yellow font, the other yellow with purple font).
I’m currently reading Sword and Citadel, second half of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
I'm on book 5 of the Wheel of Time on Audible. I hope the TV series keeps going but it sounds like a lot of people think it's meh.
Just started the Vorkosigan Saga. It's okay. It's growing on me, but I don't think it's anything to write home about. I'll stick it out through the first book and see how it goes.
I'm currently reading The Stars, Like Dust. By Issac Asimov. Seems decent I haven't been completely invested in the main character like I was in The Currents of Space (I know I read book 2 before book 1). But I like Asimov so I'll finish it it'll be a quick read anyways. I plan to finish the Galactic Empire series and then start Foundation (Finally!).
Would mort count?
Trying to punch through Seasons of Skulls by Charles Stross.
Finally got to finish Death's End. Got really dark by the end ans current life events dont really support this kind of reading.