What are you reading in 2024?

[Clint_L]

"The doors of Eden" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Doors of Eden

Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four yea…

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It has some interesting ideas mingled with a lot of chase scenes - which starts to get a bit tedious. I would give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.

I'm gonna check it out. I've only read one Tchaikovsky book I didn't like (Ogres - it's barely a book). I checked out your link and the premise seems fun.

Anyone else reading Brubaker's Friday series (graphic novels)? I am desperate to get my hands on book 3! It's sort of post-YA, set in the early 1970s with a protagonist trying to solve a supernatural mystery. The Tom Swift discussion made me think of it, because the set up is that the protagonist, Friday, has returned home from college to help solve a mystery with her childhood partner, a boy genius. As she remembers back to their earlier adventures, we are shown the "covers" of a bunch of pulp novels relating to their exploits.

 

[Clint_L]

Hey, I need an extra "D" author, "U" author, "X' author, and "Z" author for my list. Any recommendations?

 

[Autumnal]

Philip Dick, Samuel Delany, Diane Duane, William Oene DuBois

Steven Utley

Malcolm X, Xenophon

Timothy Zahn, Roger Zelazny, George Zebrowski

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

For the D category, perhaps one of David Drake's novels? He died last December, and such a prolific author arguably deserves an homage read at some point. I went with the Baen printing of Dragon Lord (his first published novel) but there are a fair number to choose from even if you avoid the series books that made up the bulk of his output.

 

[Richards]

I'm a big fan of Jeffery Deaver's mysteries/thrillers, so I'd recommend him for your "D" list. If you want an interesting one-shot, try The October List, a novel where each chapter precedes the one before it (rather like that one Seinfeld episode).

Johnathan

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Between Gary Con and illness, it took me longer than it should have, but I finished re-reading Fritz Leiber's Swords and Deviltry. The writing is still sharp, feels mostly undated, like it could've been written today.

Now I'm moving onto something a bit weightier, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, translated by Robin Waterfield.

 

[Zaukrie]

going on a trip. Going to read Druid's Call and if I finish that, The Witch King by Wells.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Between Gary Con and illness, it took me longer than it should have, but I finished re-reading Fritz Leiber's Swords and Deviltry. The writing is still sharp, feels mostly undated, like it could've been written today.

The first Lankhmar books are astonishingly good. I find they fall off with Swords & Deviltry, which is around the time his personal problems began to cascade, but I recommend the first few books to anyone who'll listen.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

The first Lankhmar books are astonishingly good. I find they fall off with Swords & Deviltry, which is around the time his personal problems began to cascade, but I recommend the first few books to anyone who'll listen.

Oh yeah, they start off so darn good. I'd put my point of no return for the series at Swords and Ice Magic, with The Knight and Knave of Swords just not existing for me.

 

[Vael]

I've been reading Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, a book about famous hacks and it's been quite informative and easy to digest.