What are you reading in 2025?

[trappedslider]

Sicne it was free due to kindle unlimited, i'm reading Earth Abides,so far so good. I'm currently at the point where he's done his trip across America came back and found Em.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

I've just started Anathem, by Neal Stephenson. I normally love his books, but the premise of this one just didn't grab me, and it's a bit of a beast. However, I've read everything else he's published and this was on for like 3 bucks or something on Kindle, so I figured I should check it off the list.

It's pretty boring so far, but I'm only a hundred or so pages in. Lotta exposition.

I have the same starting point with Stephenson, but I had the opposite reaction to Anathem -- I loved the beginning, and it turned out that I liked the back half significantly less. Hopefully, if you stick with it, you'll continue to have a different experience than I did -- things do pick up, I just didn't find how they did particularly compelling.

 

[Nellisir]

I wasn't wild about the casual racism and etc, but otherwise a decent read.

 

[trappedslider]

Sicne it was free due to kindle unlimited, i'm reading Earth Abides,so far so good. I'm currently at the point where he's done his trip across America came back and found Em.

so I finished this and honestly, I'm a bit sadden by the ending. Yes the tribe lives and is at least in a hunter/gather stage but that may be it's peak. While other groups keep and pass on the knowledge of reading and math.

 

[VHawkwinter]

Fiction
Rereading Library of Heaven's Path. I remembered liking the world building and how the author makes so many things other than combat interesting in a fantasy novel. The prose of the English translation is messy though. Might be better if you speak Chinese.

RPG Books
Hmm. Not currently reading much that's new to me. I picked up GURPS Mysteries, but it's in my backlog of books to read, I haven't really started digging into it yet. Mostly revisiting older 3.X books in my collection that I find inspiring lately, like Mongoose' Book of Strongholds and Dynasties, and Skirmisher's Insult and Injury book and Unearthed Arcana and Pathfinder Unchained and Mongoose' Games Designers Companion.

I've seen a few mentioned on here that look neat though. There's a 3e+Hackmaster equipment book, and Odyssey of the Dragonlords.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Started reading the Stygian Library rpg setting/module/adventure. Quite good.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Started reading the Stygian Library rpg setting/module/adventure. Quite good.

One of the top 10 adventures of all time, for my money, and insanely portable to practically any RPG.

 

[Autumnal]

Really true about Stygian Librery. It’d fit most World of Darkness games, other modern strangeness, would liven up a lot of spacefaring games, the whole deal.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Started reading the Stygian Library rpg setting/module/adventure. Quite good.

It's a wildly imaginative, evocative book. Will definitely return to it one day, since it's so replayable. Ran it entirely seat-of-my-pants and the crew ended up opening a book that unleashed Count Strahd. They ran.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

In advance of a trip to Japan this coming spring, I picked up a copy of Pico Iyer's A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations. I finished it on a flight today and enjoyed it -- Iyer's writing is lovely and frequently quite funny. As far as content, it's hard for me to say anything too meaningful. As far as I can tell, he's respectful of the Japanese and Japan and approaches his topic with affection and humility.