Summer reading :. What is on your list?

[Waldo]

Working my way through Terry Pratchett's oeuvre and a few others

[pdxharth]

Undermajordomo Minor, by Patrick DeWitt

He hooked me with Sisters Brothers and now his warped wit is haunting me again. Fun, dark stuff.

Harth

[WMdeR]

Seveneves, Neil Stevenson
(A great contrast to)
Aurora, Kim S. Robinson
1Q84, Haruki Murakami (finally picking up 190pp in though I wonder how much of the characterization is lost in translation.)
Pile of Glen Cook novels.
H is for Hawk, by a writer I do not remember (my next airplane book).

All television you do not mind getting sandy/wet/leaving behind for service staff.

Best,
Will
William M deRosset
Fort Collins CO USA

[Todd Amunrud]

The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye. It's a fictional story of immigration to the Northshore of Lake Superior in the late 1890's. Great character development and details of "frontier" living in the north woods; fishing, boats, and timber harvest.

I'll start the next book from him, Wintering, which continues to follow the main characters.

[Too Tall]

You are the second person to recommend this. Hmm.

"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari. It starts kind of slow, but now that I'm halfway through I'm really enjoying it.

[rec head]

eyes: Mistborn 4,5 and 6 by Sanderson
ears: Hard Magic by Larry Correia

[winmonster]

The last novel I read was "A Confederacy of Dunces". I've had "The Bone Clocks" and "Cloud Atlas" sitting on the kiddo's Kindle for a while. Time to read them.

[72gmc]

Ernest Hemingway book that contains 4 of his novels: The Sun also Rises, For whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man in the Sea.

I wanted to see what I missed back in high school when I HAD to read them.

Yeah, I missed A LOT!

I was never forced to read Moby-Dick like so many of my friends. Read it by choice a few years ago. Found it a great book, to the confusion of my friends.

[EricKeller]

I was never forced to read Moby-Dick like so many of my friends. Read it by choice a few years ago. Found it a great book, to the confusion of my friends.

I read it on my own too. Loved it. Been many decades though, I want to go back and read it again

[xjoex]

eyes: Mistborn 4,5 and 6 by Sanderson
ears: Hard Magic by Larry Correia

The Mistborn books are amazing. The first 3 have a different feel then the last but I really like them.

I read the first few Larry Correia Monster Hunter books, but the last one or two weren't my thing.

-Joe

[brucew]

Seveneves by Neil Stephenson

Seveneves, Neil Stevenson

Seveneves is a good read, although my favorite Stephenson remains "Anathem".

You may also like Saturn Run by John Sandford. Not as richly layered as Stephenson, but considerably deeper than Sandford's Prey novels.

1Q84, Haruki Murakami (finally picking up 190pp in though I wonder how much of the characterization is lost in translation.)

My Japanese is still very much at the beginner level. The impression I get is that this translator did a very good job with nuance. Japanese does not translate to English very well, (part of the challenge for me) so the translator must have a very high good grasp of culture, idiom, nuance and so forth. As the culture shines through, I'm inclined to think the others do too.

[xjoex]

I am still listening to Seveneves and I have to admit... it is good but I am not loving it. I like a little more action. I really like the Marko Kloos Frontlines series, space adventures!

-Joe

[brucew]

My favorite read so far this summer is The Mandibles : A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver.

Part dystopia, part social commentary, and part wry comedy, I liked it on several levels.

The main characters are fleshed out well, although the supporting cast has a few cardboard cutouts. I get the feeling that someone (an editor or someone at the publisher) cut out a couple of hundred pages towards the end, because it's less satisfying than the beginning and middle. Maybe the author simply ran out of steam. Still, it wraps up the story threads nicely and the book feels complete. I just wanted more story in the last 50 pages.

Halfway through Before the Wind by Jim Lynch.

Imagine a novel about three generations of custom framebuilders and racers. Now take away the bikes and replace them with sailboats. I'm no sailor yet I'm enjoying this book tremendously because I get the feel and the sensations from the prose. It's set in the PNW and I can smell the mildew in the hulls.

[brucew]

I am still listening to Seveneves and I have to admit... it is good but I am not loving it. I like a little more action.

I'm not so sure Seveneves would work really well as an audiobook, precisely for the reason you state. Since the book takes place over a long timescale, Stephenson stretches out individual events to fit that feeling. I can understand exactly why in the spoken word you'd be anxious for him to get to the point.

[rec head]

The Mistborn books are amazing. The first 3 have a different feel then the last but I really like them.

I read the first few Larry Correia Monster Hunter books, but the last one or two weren't my thing.

-Joe

I should have said re-"reading" Mistborn. I listened to or read all the books. I'm trying to read all the Cosmere stuff and decided to start by rereading these. My wife got me reading the Hard Magic and so far so good.

[Bob Ross]

I just finished re-reading Sam Harris' Letter To A Christian Nation. Almost too easy (i.e., shooting fish in a barrel) but he's wonderfully succinct and compact in his very direct and focussed criticism. Not sure what's next on my list...

Seveneves is a good read, although my favorite Stephenson remains "Anathem".

I was completely enamored with Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, but then he totally bored me with Quicksilver so I haven't kept up with his output since. Might be time to revist his work.

[TTX1]

The Emperor of Maladies - Mukherjee
You May Also Like - Vanderbilt

Also flipping through Magnum Cycling

My classic reco for the VSalon literati is Philoctetes, Sophocles' play. The idea that the war cannot be won without just the right bow seems fitting for a community seeking just the right frame, wheel, stem, ring, bolt...

[rec head]

Just started The Cursed Child. I can't believe I am reading a play.