I’m reading this on my lunch breaks:
Rice Cooker by Russell Hobbs
A classic.
Nice! I just finished The Crippled God the other day!
We should make a malazan fedi
Haha! That cover is kinda ass. Great book, though. Maybe my favorite in the series.
Post-apocalyptic tale of tech-priests, kind of. It starts slow, and then you get used to it.
It only starts slow if you don’t appreciate the unique humour of a world that has forgotten itself completely misinterpreting archeological artifacts in hilarious ways. This is one of my favourite books ever, in large part because of the description of Brother Francis’ reactions and reasoning upon reading the words “fallout shelter”, and other such examples of the beautifully dry and matter-of-fact humour present throughout the book.
Yeah, I’m also enjoying that. I’ve been working my way through Catch 22 as well, and the humor has a bit of the same dryness, but I wonder if this book has a little more humanity to it.
I think that you’ll find that it does, by the end. Its a shockingly hopeful and beautiful book, for a story whose primary lesson is “humanity never learns from its mistakes, people die, and the uncaring world moves on”
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Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. LeGuin, just finished it, it’s a pretty quick read. I started with The Dispossessed and decided to go back and read her sci-fi novels in the order they were written. Not quite as much social commentary in this one which is what I liked most about The Dispossessed, but still enjoyable, and an interesting blend of fantasy and sci-fi.
Audiobook while I drive, but still
Such an excellent series. Once you finish it, if you like it, check out his books “earthside” and “outland”. Honestly, just read his entire oeuvre. Even his short stories are amazing.
LOL, I’m very tired right now and read, “book checkpoint,” and thought, “…do they mean a fucking bookmark?”
Just re-reading my favorite fantasy series for the umpteenth time
I just started reading book one, the world building is absolutely fantastic. I feel most high fantasy books are really hit or miss for me, but I understand now why Sanderson is considered top tier. Looking forward to the rest of the books, and also the Mistborn series!
It’s amazing worldbuilding but fair warning, many consider the Stormlight books to drop considerably in writing quality for the last entries. Take them slow and enjoy the ride without burning yourself out on the (huge) amount of pages.
Mistborn on the other hand, you can feel that they’re somewhat older books of his, with a few more awkward/obvious character elements but they stay fantastic throughout.
The payoff in Mistborn made the series for me. Really stuck the landing.
If anything, it could have used more meat at the center. Book one as a high fantasy heist was great. Two and three felt like a sprint through what should have maybe been another hundred pages each.
But it’s still my favorite Sanderson work to date, not including the last three books of Wheel of Time
Honestly, I really liked the last couple of storm light books. They definitely feel different than the first three, but I still really enjoyed them.
Working through the Three Body Problem trilogy. Absolutely loving it so far and open to recommendations if you’ve got em.
Planning to read Ball Lightning next and potentially pivot to Mistborn next.
I’m at the start of the second of the trilogy. Planning on moving to the Dune series next
I wonder what tankies think of the opening of Three Body Problem
Probably the same thing an American Patriot thinks about Washington owning slaves or Lincoln aiding in the genocide of American natives.
The whole series struggles with righteous people making horrible choices.
Presumably: “The three body problem is not praxis. The fact that it is so popular among the imperialist libs is evidence that it is all propaganda!”
I’m trying to give Lemmy MLs the benefit of the doubt that they’re not just groupthink tribalists but only a couple of people seem to defy that
In case you’re into this type of thing, I can highly recommend the youtube channel called Quinn’s Ideas, where a super-nerd deep dives books he loves. He used to exclusively cover A Song of Ice and Fire before moving on to covering Dune, Lovecraft and a few other books, but he also began covering The Three Body Problem before it was turned into a TV series and he is - in my opinion - very pleasant to listen to. He always captures my attention when I click on one of his videos.
You also HAVE to watch this fan made video depicting on the Waterdrop in case you haven’t seen it already. It is mesmerizing.
Thanks for the recs. Will check em out!
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Almost as many upvotes as comments. Well done.
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin is one, but I’ve also been chewing through the Murderbot series
The Muderbot show has been pretty good. I think the cut aways to the SciFi slop he watches is some of the best material, but it’s fun all around.
The Broken Earth trilogy just didn’t hook me, though. I think if I hadn’t ingested so much high fantasy over a lifetime, it could have been good. But at a base level, it just felt like something I’d already read. Same with The Poppy War.
At some point, I think I just want to read the histories, rather than the Fantasy Inspired By the histories.
I haven’t read too much high fantasy in my life, so maybe that’s why I’m mostly enjoying it. I’ve decided I haven’t been reading enough for many years, so this year that’s changing. At 13 books so far I think! Was looking for sci-fi recommendations online and this trilogy was one I hadn’t heard of. Think I might go down the Hugo & Nebula award winners list for a while.
Do you have any sci-fi/fantasy recommends?
You can’t go wrong with the classics. I’m a big fan of Asimov’s I, Robot and Foundation. Le Guin’s Hanish Cycle is fantastic, particularly The Dispossessed. I loved Dune and Ender’s Game (although their sequels are mid).
If you want some pop SciFi, try Timothy Zhan’s Hier to the Empire or Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina. The Bobverse was also a lot of fun.
On the fantasy side, I’ve got a deep fondness for Raymond E. Fiest’s Magician series, although I’ll admit the later books in the series don’t hold up as well as the first few trilogies.
Also, huge nerd for H.P. Lovecraft
Thank you! I actually read the very first magician a long time ago; a friend we visited while traveling lent it to me. Now I know there’s a trilogy I’ll have to check it out!
Does this count?
PIC18(L)F2X/4XK22 Data Sheet
Nice, that’s a beast you got there. Some of those 8 bit pics don’t have enough flash for
printf.What’s funny is we’re coding something fairly simple in assembly at my university, so even this PIC’s resources are overkill for us (PIC18F45K22)
Having more instructions would be nice, though. Any loop other than a simple decfsz-goto loop requires some ingenuity
Nice. Asm probably has an advantage here. C’s stupid integer promotion rules can sneak up on you and also blow up flash use. To avoid it, you need to cast everything in every math expression.
