What book(s) are you currently reading? 10 August

The first two books are stylistically (and canonically) quite different from the later books. The first two books are more likea sketch shows. There isn't much of a story besides getting Rincewind in a new predicament.

The humour and especially the characters are also less... Developed. Death for example is quite cruel in the first books.

The first books also mainly make fun of fantasy tropes, while later books use Discworld more as a mirror to explore social issues on our world.

I am enjoying it. Especially as it has interesting science stuff (I am from science background).

It's pretty incredible how so much of the history aligns with my issues. It's a great book. I have a good feeling about it being able to help organize my life.

I liked the mistborn series, and found the magic system quite unique and inventive.

I'm now nearing the end of warbeaker, in which I also like his special magic system.

The Mistborn series is just OK, but I want to see the payoff and how this ties into the Cosmere as a whole. I actually disliked it so much the first time I read Mistborn that I gave up halfway through; I thought it was absolutely the dumbest magic system I’ve ever read.

I came back to it after reading the Stormlight books, which is also a dumb magic and currency system but such an epic story I got past it much more easily. The Mistborn series feels a little too YA for me, but I do really like some of the characters.

Considering how fast he wrote them I'm not surprised.

I hope I'm able to properly communicate my thoughts to you! Haha

Alright, so to start, it reads sort of like a tv show, in the way that every chapter we get a shift in perspective and what character we are following. It shifts between 2 narratives. Sort of like every chapter is a different episode. Perhaps I just don't read enough, but this constant back and forth seemed a little odd to me in a written medium? Including the prologue, we get 3 different character POVs.

As for the pacing, it isn't slow, but it isn't fast either. I'd say it's well-paced, but each POV seems to have a slightly different speed, where a chapter for one character could be just a typical day, the chapter for the next character could span a few weeks. This doesn't interrupt the story much at all, and it really seems to only serve to enhance the readers immersion in this world and how fast or slow things move in space and "The Belt" as it's called in the series.

Speaking of the world, so far, it has been built and established pretty wonderfully. 114 pages into the first book of the series, and the writer never seems to shoehorn in exposition into the narrative, but rather it's, usually, a tasteful cutaway to a flashback of sorts that explains perhaps who they're talking to/about, or what event happened to kick off a chain reaction and why, etc.

I have encountered 1 misspelling so far earlier in the book, and it's probably just me, but it's stuck with me since.

In terms of its actual writing and language used, the author uses basic, everyday language, with a few "$5" words sprinkled in that can sometimes cause confusion, although that could just be due to my limited personal dictionary. Overall, it doesn't detract from the story, especially if you're willing to take a moment to look up a word or 2 every couple chapters.

In terms of "sci-fi"-ness, so far everything the entire series has taken place either in the empty vacuum of space, or smaller stations scattered throughout the solar system. The way the author describes some everyday actions and activities, and their difficulty or impossibility in the altered gravity of space and/or space stations really sucks me into the universe as it makes me believe that even though these people are humans, they're living an entirely different existence, with different rules.

I said a lot, especially for only being 114 pages into the first book, but it has sucked me back into reading, and I commend it for that.

Also, a few articles I've seen scattered across the internet when searching for other books in the series have called it "the greatest sci-fi series of the decade" for whatever that's worth to you.

Oh, and they also have a "major" tv show based on the books.

Hope this comment answers a few questions for you :)

Thankless in Death is book 37, plus a few shorts, and I've been reading them all up to this point. They're fine. They're mostly an easy read, I usually get through them in a couple of nights each depending on when I'm working. Sometimes they surprise you though, the killer in this book is particularly horrible, and there's a lot of competition considering I'm several dozen books in. Some of the books are really good, but I don't read any other crime, nor do I know anything about policework. The overarching story of the main character getting her life together is the most interesting part, but you only really get a trickle of that each book so if you get into it you're stuck there for about 60 novels. I started in about 2008 with Creation in Death and read maybe 10-12 of the books randomly because I was a broke teen who took what he could get, that book was good enough that it hooked me and got me back a over decade later to give the series a complete read.

I haven't read any other McGuire. Incryptid is almost a guilty pleasure, the first 2 books were ok, but I really enjoyed the third. The series switches point of view characters every couple of books so I haven't seen everyone yet, but that's something I enjoy except for the fact that when you get attached to someone they might not show back up for a while. This one I've been listening to rather than reading, Ray Porter does the narration for book 3's character and he's fantastic. They even got the narrator from the first two books in for all of 5 lines in a phone call, which was a nice surprise. I mainly got into these (and Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson books) to fill time before the next Dresden Files, but they're both enjoyable enough.

In my opinion Resident Evil's story is absolute balls, and I don't expect the books to be any better. I'm like 20 pages into the first one so I can't fairly judge that yet.

I guess that doesn't surprise me, given how different it is from The Martian. If you go in expecting it to be like The Martian, you're going to be very disappointed. For what it was, though, I really liked it. Granted, I generally prefer the heist genre that Artemis is, over the survivalist genre of The Martian.

The series, from what I understand is only loosely connected as in it's set in the same universe. The next couple in the series are supposed to be really good.

So far so good! They set up a really ambitious world with an eye for the long game, and I appreciate seeing the military/mercenary perspective.

It was interesting. You don't really think kids are that exposed to diet culture but it's in everything.

I got the Penguin Classics edition of Metamorphoses. It's working out great for me, but I don't really have any scholarly investment in the text. Just reading because I always liked the old mythos.

I got all 3 of Mukherjee's books as well as Outlive by Peter Attia and Better by Atul Gawande. Why do doctors have some burning desire to tell us about Ignaz Semmelweis? It seems impossible not to mention the guy in your early chapters if you're an MD. I don't know what I've gotten myself into.

I don't typically read crime novels, but I'm also not one to turn down a recommendation from a friend.