Books, CAN YOU READ?! Options

[Dr Strum]

This thread is for discussion of books. Books you're reading, books you've read, books you're interested in, etc.
--Tom Clancy is lame--


But anyways. I'm currently reading Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's interesting, but I'm having difficulty getting into it, partially because of school, and partially because the month before I started it, I had just finished the Dark Tower series.

[Dr Strum]

Another year, another round of bookos.

• American Gods - pretty much captures the midwest
• The Martian Chronicles - The story of America but it's Mars
• Death’s end - the action movie entry of the trilogy
• Smashed - if you only liked the tornado riding part of uzumaki...
• The arrival - immigrants helping immigrants
• Thinking fast thinking slow - all the ways in which your first impressions are WRONG but also IMPORTANT?!?!
• Ulysses - at least 20% dedicated to shipping the Shakespeare-was-a-cuckold theory
• Cry, the beloved country - kinda like Crash but South African
• Ni independencia, ni revolución - kinda like a Mexican graphic novel Zinn
• Too loud a solitude - poop princesses and book hoarders, oh and SORROW
• Fever dream - I think the Spanish title (Rescue Distance) is better
• Their eyes were watching god - what's the most absurd way to die from an heroic gesture?
• Hyperion - Space Chaucer
• Zen in the Art of Writing - According to Bradbury, "zen" in writing is writing about what pisses you off
• Data oriented programming - fuck type systems
• American Loom - the supreme court can't save you from corporate surveillance
• Thinking in Numbers - tell me you have adhd and you're incredibly well read without telling me either of those things
• Maus I - man it was hard to be a Jewish mouse in Poland in the 30's
• Devil House - true crime is for chumps
• Maus II - man it was reallly hard to be a Jewish mouse in Poland in the early 40's
• Rethinking consciousness - "reptile brain" is an offensive slur
• A long day’s journey into night - hurt people hurt people
• Probable impossibilities - helped me understand why the last 100 years of science mattered
• Project Hail Mary - bonding over diy space travel hacks
• Walden - how Thoreau, unable to buy his favorite (unfashionable) pants, became a curmudgeon and how you can too
• Near to the wild heart - one big mirror for so many of my philosophical turmoils
• Ashoka the great - white wash a ruthless conqueror and MAKE ME CRY THE WHOLE TIME
• The jazz of physics - just read the last chapter, or just study Coltrane's mandala
• The prophet - god-tier

My top five for the year? In order, "Ulysses", "The Prophet", "Near to the Wild Heart", "Cry, the Beloved Country" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God." High recommendation for all of them.

The only book I suggest avoiding is "American Loom" because I'm college friends with the author and how dare he publish before me! Nah, actually I just think it would have been better as a screenplay than a novel.