What kind of books have you guys been reading lately?

[SoleVictim]

finished the first part (out of six) of Crime & Punishment and so far has been an interesting read. reading about the murder being done and described in detail was pretty hype lol. im interested in the psychological stuff itll get into later on.
as for past books, i enjoyed reading Hamlet, The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Book of Disquiet. would like to check out House of Leaves in summer

I completely forgot about this thread 😭
Anyways I finished reading Crime & Punishment more than 3 months ago and I'm pretty sure I remember what I thought of it after finishing.

For the most part, it was alright. Didn't really blow my mind or anything just a decent read. Pacing was pretty good but every now and then there would be a block of text that didn't add anything to the story.
It has topics like "capitalism bad" and tbh books with those topics often leave a bad taste in my mouth or end up sorta boring by bringing up the same points all of them bring up. I was more interested in the characters, who were for the most part alright, but they were either very barebones or very complex and rarely in-between.
Character deaths in the book are done really well, the worldbuilding was mediocre, characters were pretty good (although I do wish some of them weren't barebones) and it's written very well.

In short, it's a decent book with pretty interesting psychological themes and character interactions. Not worth a whopping 500 pages though.

 

[Mister_Mettaur]

I've just finished Mailed Fist by John Foley after reading it on the train to and from work and let me tell you what a story! Really got into it since I'm a bit of a history buff!

 

[alkemylabz]

been plonking through the discworld series in chronological order of release while at work and just finished mort. i like these funny wizards i think i shall read more of them

 

[Lesdeux]

Just got a copy of the Ring novel. Gonna see how it compares to the 1998 Japanese movie and the American remake. Heard it gets a bit weird, will report back after I'm done.

 

[Scott]

i'd actually been meaning to read Ring for a minute, but then i got 8 books deep into Malazan (10 counting the side novels), started The First Law trilogy by joe abercrombie and threw in some warhammer slop novels and it got lost in the shuffle. i'll get around to it at some point.

right now i'm reading Valkia the Bloody by Sarah Cawkwell, some of the aforementioned warhammer slop. i generally use the term endearingly, and there are a handful of Black Library novels that I would consider to be Worth Reading, but this one is to be taken literally. despite being about one of my favourite WHFB characters, it's unfortunately a big ol flop. every single character is almost entirely unlikeable, but not in a cool "well the book's about a villainous character so of course they suck" way. it's uninteresting, kind of a slog despite being a brief read, and tells you nothing about her character that isn't told better in the actual Army Books for the tabletop game. similar to the Horus Heresy novels, it turns out knowing exactly what happened leading up to the event is a lot less interesting than speculating. i'm going to finish it anyway since i may as well, but it's definitely not one i would recommend