What are you reading in 2025?

[overgeeked]

Finished Monty Python at Work by Michael Palin. It was a sometimes fun, sometimes depressing look behind the curtain. A lot of interesting bits and asides, and a lot of talk about money…specifically just how little they made. It took all six to be the cultural force that was Monty Python and splitting the little bit of money they earned six ways meant they were constantly pushing to do as much as they could simply for the cash. It was insightful though. Kind of bizarre seeing how much some did and how little others did. Like a group project in college where 1-2 members alternate between minimal effort and seemingly none.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I’ll go read something restorative like Naked Lunch or Ballard’s Crash.

Two of my favorite books, those. Discovering them for the first time as a teenager was mind-blowing.

 

[Autumnal]

Two of my favorite books, those. Discovering them for the first time as a teenager was mind-blowing.

I was in my twenties, and yeah. You could see where I’d been walking by the sparkling trail of fused brain bits.

 

[trappedslider]

Like a group project in college where 1-2 members alternate between minimal effort and seemingly none.

or the assassination of Julius Caesar

 

[Reynard]

I started "Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green. It is both beautiful and devastating as a history of TB and how our chocies and biases have impacted the victims of the disease.

Green writes so well that he makes me embarrassed that I have ever tried to strong words together.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Green writes so well that he makes me embarrassed that I have ever tried to strong words together.

Oh dear...

 

[Reynard]

Oh dear...

EXXXactly

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished reading Neuromancer. It has to have been at least 15 years since I last read it. And it's still, positively one of the most electric books I've ever read.

I spent ten minutes weighing what to follow it up with. In the end, rather than try to match it, I went the opposite route and went for schlock. 80s post-apocalyptic schlock in the form of First, You Fight. Written by D.B. Drumm on the cover, but actually by John Shirley and/or Ed Naha.

 

[Reynard]

I finished reading Neuromancer. It has to have been at least 15 years since I last read it. And it's still, positively one of the most electric books I've ever read.

I spent ten minutes weighing what to follow it up with. In the end, rather than try to match it, I went the opposite route and went for schlock. 80s post-apocalyptic schlock in the form of First, You Fight. Written by D.B. Drumm on the cover, but actually by John Shirley and/or Ed Naha.

Both Peripheral and Agency are Gibson's best work in years, and are definitely a different take on cyberpunk.

 

[Richards]

My "to be read" pile is getting kind of small, and I'm now down to the books I picked up at a library book sale because they might be good. So now I'm reading Sins of the Night, a "Dark-Hunter" novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I have six of these, and while I thought at first they might be two sets of trilogies, nope, they're just random books out of a slew of novels all set in the same universe. I'm a little confused, because they seem to be vampire novels without saying the V-word; apparently Dark-Hunters are (vampires with the serial numbers filed off) and are supposed to be good, but sometimes they start sucking human souls instead of blood, and sometimes they get turned into ghost-like beings who feel constant hunger and thirst but cannot be perceived by humans or interact with them. There are Greek deities involved, and two Dark-Hunters that have powers well above the normal for Dark-Hunters, and the two main characters are one of these super (not vampires) and a normal (not vampire) woman who wants nothing to do with men, but gosh, this super-powered (not vampire) sure is handsome and alluring and...you just know they're going to be an item before too long. So I think I stumbled my way into a (not-vampire) romance series of novels, which is not at all what I thought I was buying.

But they were like 50 cents each or something, so no big loss. I'm going to finish this one and see how it goes, but in the meantime I jumped on Amazon and bought four novels by Jonathan Maberry because I really liked a book of his I randomly picked up at a library book sale. They should start arriving the middle of next week, so I hope I can get this one finished up before too long....

Johnathan