Topic: Books You're Currently Reading?

@KALofKRYPTON The Wheel of Time is such a long series ... I’ve always been interested to read it but honestly don’t think I have the patience to invest in a series that takes 14 books to wrap up. I really like B. Sanderson so I am more intrigued by the prospect of seeing how he completed the epic, but I really would rather keep up with his Stormlight Archive series first. I still need to read Oathbringer. That will probably be next up if I ever complete Hobb’s The Tawny Man series.

@Dichotomy I eventually need to get to the second part of the Mistborn series. I really liked the first 3. Have you read any of his The Stormlight Archives?

@Th3solution I've been dipping in and out for WoT for years. I found books 3/4 a bit of a slog and not particularly enjoyable - so I left it for a while.
Lord of Chaos was much better though, and I've read that the whole thing improves somewhat from book 8 onwards.
I do find that just having the books to hand and just alternating rather than trying to plough through to be beneficial. They're not particularly complex, so putting one on the back-burner part way through isn't really an issue.

I like the magic system mostly. If an author can put together an interesting magic system and convey it's use well on the page - I find it quite gratifying. David Farland's Runelords series is a great example of that. Brilliant magic/empowerment system. Despite a significant drop off after the fourth book, it was still a decent read. Perhaps one day he'll finish the series and I'll go through it again.

Once I'm done with WoT I'm probably going back through Gene Wolfe's 'Solar Cycle' again, I never did get around to The Book of the Short Sun.

@Th3solution Read the first two and have the recent one, Oathbringer, to read, but it is a big book (like the previous two, except a bit bigger) so I'm waiting for me to be in the mood for an epic before I start it. I'll probably get lost in it when I start it and wonder why I waited

Old Goriot by Honore De Balzac

@Sanquine I really liked The Iliad.

@VRex7 Would you say the Biocentrism book falls into the category of philosophy?

@PLEXTOR08 Have you read The Devils or The Brothers Karamazov?

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

My tiny break from The Wheel of Time is almost over. Reading a couple of the Star Trek Titan books hasn't been in vain as I discovered that Bajoran guys are ribbed (for her pleasure) 😂😂😂

@KALofKRYPTON that was something else i didn't need to know (same as Klingons having 2)

@FullbringIchigo That's NOT a Klingon

@KALofKRYPTON sadly for the time being it is

@FullbringIchigo It's just such a silly thing though... I know it's Star Trek and inherently silly and all of that - but it's really based on the stupidest reasoning!

@KALofKRYPTON i'm trying not to think about it too much really, if i switch of that part of my brain that cares about continuity then i can watch Discovery fine

anyway on topic, i'm reading the novelisation of The Last Jedi and it explains things much better than the film did but it still has loads of plot holes and unnecessary characters

@FullbringIchigo I had always planned to read the Aftermath book before TFA but read some shocking reviews so left alone.
It does apparently go in to why there is a need for any 'resistance' post ROTJ - as the intervening books flesh out quite a lot elsewhere.

They've ruined potential for using the Timothy Zahn post ROTJ trilogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command) anyway... so there's not much point reading any of the others. (He wrote two more set after The Last Command that were bizarrely terrible).

Anyone read any philosophy?

@Kidfried I'd like to tackle Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, but that is said to be one of the harder works of philosophy, I enjoyed Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, well, I enjoyed the philosophical sections in that book a lot more than the sentimental father and son ones. Can you recommend something in between the two?

@draco-n-eliptic1 Well you're about to tackle one of the works that changed and shaped Western Philosophy so it will be quite consuming. (Basic) knowledge of rationalism (think Leibniz and Wolff) and the works of René Descartes will be quite helpful.

Glad to see the interest on this forum. I love reading philosophy (especially regarding ethics, religion and politics), thinking and talking about it with friends and strangers. It helps a lot in understanding the world and most importantly yourself.

@JJ-Firl What do you think about the idea that all our values are socially constructed?