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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? October 29 (self.books)

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Still reading The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore. First book of The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and The Legend of Drizzt / Forgotten Realms series (publication order).

Book is pretty fast paced and full of action. Really enjoying it.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Currently reading Venomous Lumpsucker and enjoying the hell out of it. It's ~350pgs of snark sniping at our ecological apathy and "market based solutions" to the problem. It's so on point it hurts sometimes: Imagine if Wall St financialized species extinction so that the invisible hand of the market could solve the problem, but the solutions all end up being fraud and fraud derivatives.

Recently finished James S.A. Corey's new Captive's War books The Mercy of Gods and the novella Livesuit. Both good, though Livesuit was the more engaging. Looking forward to more in the series when main events kick off on the human side.

Finally read Blindsight last month after seeing it endlessly recommended over the last few years. It's good, definitely worth the read, but I enjoyed Freeze-Frame Revolution and the Sunflowers short stories a bit more. I think I'd have been more impressed with Blindsight if I read it back when it was released, I feel like the shocking big idea has diffused into other works over the last decade and a half so it's not quite as arresting now as it would have been then.

Read Linda Nagata's Pacific Storm as a palate cleanser between Blindsight and the Captive's War books. This one was interesting, Nagata writes a good near future thriller and I'll probably recommend it to family members who are into those sorts of things.

Read the anthology Shine in an afternoon at some point as well - while I appreciate the optimism it feels forced at this point. It was published just over a decade ago now and it feels distinctly out of place in the current timeline.