What are you reading in 2024?

[Mannahnin]

In the middle of Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles right now. Really enjoying it. Lyrical and moving. I read Miller's Circe about a year and a half ago, though, so I expected this one to be similarly good.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished up John Jakes' On Wheels. It was an adrenaline-fueled and dark vision of the future. The central conceit is perhaps far-fetched, but the story is carried forward on its own momentum. And I can't help but feel like it was an influence on the first Mad Max movie.

Now I'm onto I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons, the new one by Peter S. Beagle.

 

[trappedslider]

I finally got a hold of a copy of Team Yankee by Harold Coyle which is, I guess spin off? of The Third World War : August 1985 by Sir John Hackett.

Spoiler

During the second half of the Twentieth Century, East and West stood on the brink of war. No where was this more evident then in Central Germany, where ten thousand tanks belonging to NATO stood ready to resist a ground attack spearheaded by forty thousand Warsaw Pact tanks. It was a war that never was. But what if it had? How would the opening days of World War III played out?

Team Yankee, the New York Times best seller by Harold Coyle, presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the soldiers who would have had to meet the relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions. Using the geo-political and military scenarios described by General Sir John Hackett, former NORTHAG commander and author of 'World War Three; August 1985', Team Yankee follows the war as seen from the turret of Captain Sean Bannon’s tank.

Through Bannon's eyes, and those of the men belonging to his tank heavy combat team, the reader lives through the first fourteen days of World War III. The action is vivid and exciting, the tension palpable. Defeat and death are as close as victory.[/wpoiler]
am Yankee

 

[Mind of tempest]

I am trying to read the most important book related to me that I have never read, it is an acquired taste I think

 

[Nellisir]

I am trying to read the most important book related to me that I have never read, it is an acquired taste I think

How many books are you related too?

 

[Mind of tempest]

How many books are you related too?

one, but you should see the other things related to it

 

[Nellisir]

one, but you should see the other things related to it

Pass.

 

[Cadence]

"Toxic Prey" by John Sanford (starting Lucas and Letty). A popcorn read as usual with much less grossness than some of his.

 

[prabe]

Still on my rhythm as far as reading, though it looks as though I have four recent books: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer, a book that reads like an unreliable narrator telling her story of descending into insanity (at least until the last few chapters) told in clinically bloodless prose that stirs the soul to apathy; The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, a story of perpetually drunk detectives and their perpetually drunk friends amusingly bantering their way through solving a mystery, more worth reading that that sounds, really; Blossom by Andrew Vachss, a novel about a career criminal working his way to proving an innocent young person innocent of murder/s, by proving the killer is the kind of predator the career criminal hates, satisfactory if not literary; The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, litfic that wants the reader to believe that it's SF, but it really didn't think the SF through, so it's borderline incoherent and kinda a muddy mess.

 

[overgeeked]

Just finished Dungeon Crawler Carl. It was a good book and well written. Mostly funny and violent and gory. It didn’t really have a ending per se, it just stopped. It’s not a complete story unto itself. It’s written as an ongoing series. The book ends with the two main characters going to the next dungeon level. Not any kind of story arc or finale or climax at the end. Well, there was a climax at the end, but it wasn’t the literary type. I’m glad I read it. It was fun and entertaining. But the author committed the one unforgivable sin for me. Not telling a complete story between two covers.