What are you reading in 2025?

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished reading Gibson's Virtual Light. So good. No idea why I read and re-read Neuromancer multiple times, but this only once. The Bridge comes to life so vividly.

I also finished The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan. Wild how a book published in the 60s could see how things would be today. The presentation makes it almost an art book, too.

Now I'm reading Gary Weiss' Retail Gangster, the story of Crazy Eddie.

 

[Autumnal]

Falling Angel, by William Hjortsberg, the basis for the movie Angel Heart. It’s 1959, and private eye Harry Angel is hired to find a jazz singer who dropped out of sight during World War II. Complications ensue. There’s black magic in the midst of things, and a revelation about why Angel is having no luck finding the guy that’s up there with Iain Banks’ Use of Weapons. It’s basically junk food, but it’s good junk food, and it made a great comfort-food reread.

I learned earlier this year that’s there’s a sequel - the book doesn’t end with the equivalent of the movie’s awesome elevator ride - and I’ll get to that sometime soon.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm on the final story myself, and I literally looked up at my wife this evening and said "This Le Guin, she's a good writer." We lol'ed of course, since UKLG is one of the few fantasy authors my spouse reads intentionally.

I'm still on the Otter story and it's blowing my mind.

 

[Retros_x]

In the end, the whole story could basically have been an 8-minute segment in one of the very few bad Treehouse of Horrors in the Simpsons. That's what it comes down to

Love angry rants like that!

the characters and the well-executed plot, which keep twisting when you expect it to but not, to me, at all in the directions I expected it to. So many times I was like "Aha so and so did such and such, obviously! Hah!" and then nope, only only thought that because I read too many fantasy novels lol.

Yes, this is what I loved so much about the book too. Multiple times I was so sure I know what was about to happen, just to have the rug pulled under me. Its a play with expectations, but not in a bad "GOT season 8" way.