What are you reading - Sep 2017

[Random Bystander]

Woken up out of a sound sleep, wandering a cold, drafty castle full of twisting passages and moving staircases... Possibly without any time to pull on foot-warmers...

...I begin to see how Dumbledore's greatest desire, right then and there, was for warm woolly socks.

And perhaps, as a man intended to be comfortable with where he was in life, albeit not what happened to get him there...

 

[Kaodi]

How is it so far? I've been meaning to read it, but it is very expensive.

I have just gotten through the Introduction. That part is very readable. I am a bit worried it is going to get drier and sloggier from this point out, but Piketty says he has tried to make it as accessible to non-economics types as possible. He actually describes the book as sort of between economics and history.

 

[Kramodlog]

I have just gotten through the Introduction. That part is very readable. I am a bit worried it is going to get drier and sloggier from this point out, but Piketty says he has tried to make it as accessible to non-economics types as possible. He actually describes the book as sort of between economics and history.

I know the English version is around 200 pages shorter than the French one. It might be the case. I'm reading Debt: the first 5,000 years. It certainly is readable and focuses a lot on history.

 

[Blue]

How is it so far? I've been meaning to read it, but it is very expensive.

I've heard buying it is a Capital expenditure.

(I'll let myself out.)

 

[Blue]

Been reading some Charles Stross' Laundry. I had reread the first three a few months back, so I just reread The Apocalypse Codex which I enjoyed again and I'm out of re-read and into first time read of The Rhesus Chart. I also have the next book sitting on deck.

 

[Blue]

Apropos of nothing, I just got the urge to read superhero fiction written as a collaboration of Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible) and Marion Harmon (Wearing the Cape series). Anyone know how I can make that happen?

 

[Janx]

Book 2 of the Bobiverse series. Don't recall the title, but book 1 was We are Legion (We are Bob)

Fun sci-fi series so far.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Crash Override. Good reading, but at times it’s pretty harrowing. Now I’m back to the Wheel of Time read, with The Great Hunt.

 

[SpellJammer16]

Currently reliving the 80's

 

[Richards]

I'm reading a collection of Stephen King's short stories from 2015, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. They've been pretty good so far.

Johnathan