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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? November 26 (discuss.online)

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Finished Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. It was a surprisingly easy read, and while I remembered the main plot, I didn't remember any of the details, so enjoyed the whole read.

Just finished the book moments ago (which is also why the thread is late), so haven't yet decided what to read next.

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

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I do reread heavily. It's probably like half my reading. But usually not much more frequently than 6 months apart or so. I need it to fade a tiny bit to be immersed again. I'll probably try Skyward before Reckoners personally.

I like Reacher books. It comes across as light because of the writing style and the persistent forward pace, but there's a decent bit of complexity in his arcs, and I like his approach to action. The more recent ones also have a very grounded, realistic approach to modern tech. I'm not sure if that's from the involvement of Andrew Child, but there have been a couple times where I looked at something someone said about tech in a Reacher book, said "that doesn't make sense", and the discrepancy became relevant.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ahan, interesting. 6 months is a very short time for me, since I generally take read 1-2 books a month max.

I have already read Skyward, did it earlier this year (or was it last year?), looking forward to the sequel series, wonder where they will take it from here.

I just finished Die Trying, and while I enjoyed it, there wasn't too much action in first three quarters, Reacher was very passive in this one. It made sense as per the story, and it was still interesting, but I wasn't expecting that.

As for the tech, the books are bit old, so that could be the reason, but I generally don't think too deeply about these things, unless it's central to the story. Have come across incorrect tech stuff often in the books.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't read every series every six months. That's still pretty frequent. But there are some favorites (Karen Rose, some of CJ Archer, probably will be a bunch of Sanderson) where, when I don't have anything immediately queued up and am looking for my next read, I see them and decide to dive in again.

I think it's probably Andrew Child being a co-author now. But the more recent ones have conspiracies where technology plays a much more central role, because that's where the world has evolved. Reacher is still Reacher and a borderline technophobe, but it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for modern bad actors to ignore the internet and I think he covers it in a pretty fair way.