What book are you reading?

[Brokeass_baller]

Is this the same book as "A Man Called Ove"? When I search your title, I get Russian results, for some reason. Lol

[Challenger007]

At the moment I am reading Frederick Buckman's "The Second Life of Uwe". The novel sucked me in, in a few days I read 3/4 of the books, despite the fact that there is not so much time for reading.

[lew]

De rien, mon ami. Also grab a hold of Lewis and Clark's journal. Enlightening stuff.

[BLachance75]

I’ll have to check all 3 of those out. I really been into learning about western exploration lately so all 3 of those will fit in nicely. What I’ve learned so far is vastly different than what was taught in school as a child growing up. Thanks for the recommendations.

[lew]

I just finished Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne. If you’re into western history it’s worth a read.

If you liked that one, check out the following:

The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
Comanches: The History of a People by TR Fehrenbach

All three books were hard to put down. I like learning about the Apache Wars in particular, since some of those events happened literally within sight of my house. Normally I have a healthy respect for Amerindians, to include my Mexica ancestors, but the Comanche were absolutely worthy of the title "savage". Amazing what kind of barbarity those people dreamt up, and most of it was visited upon their fellows Amerindians.

[BLachance75]

I just finished Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne. If you’re into western history it’s worth a read.

[Ironnerd]

Northrop Flying Wings

[vijil]

Ironnerd fair point about drama. There are other ways - the odds don't have to be life and death for the main characters, even if they are for others. Of course you could play with systems being hacked and people being deleted mysteriously, and the idea that as the sum of your experiences, the older your backup and the more you've gone through since being backed up, the more truly you die when you die. Lots to ponder.

[foughtwolf]

Just finished The Salvage Team penned my a person with a name I cannot hope to pronounce. I don’t get much reading time anymore so I do audible and Nathan Fillian did a superb job narrating other than a few times he gets a bit too whispery.

Now a few hours into Player of Games by Ian M Banks after a friend of mine suggested the Culture series. It’s an oddity but quite entertaining.

[JonM]

I’ve completed Warbreaker and I’m now on to The Way of Kings. So far as the Cosmere books go, Warbreaker was the slowest to get started. Although, it did pick up about half way through. Sanderson also left the story wide open for a sequel. Should he write another book in this world, I would expect it to pick up much faster now that he has already established the rules and backstory for this world. The premise of power being dependent on breath and color is certainly a unique idea though. I think it took me a little longer to get invested in the concept than other ideas he’s had, but once I got used to the rules he set up, the story flowed better than it did at first. Overall, it was a good read, though not on the same level as books like Mistborn.

[Grendel]

Thanks, always looking for new authors went ahead and added both to my library!

[BretG]

No, didn't read any other of this series. I received 40lbs of sci-fi and fantasy paperback books from one my kids for Christmas and I've read about 5lbs worth so far. I really liked Gordon Dickson's Wolf and Iron.

[vijil]

I once did some cover art for a book. I read the book first

It's actually a good read, considering it's a first work from a complete unknown. I enjoyed it, more for the setting than anything. Pre-WW1 scifi.

Art is directly based on a scene in the book. The art is not very good, actually, but it did the trick and got me paid. Man, I could do so much better now...

Here it is:

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Worl.../dp/B008RBGZ7G



Speaking of small time writers, this is probably my favourite sci fi short/novella: https://www.amazon.com/Ash-Air-Domin...al-text&sr=1-1

[Grendel]

Mis-matched art to story was pretty common with books from Ben Bova's time (when he was really cranking them out) and was the primary way to get people to pickup the book and buy it. I like a lot of Ben Bova's work and many of his titles are from very obscure references to something said in the book. Might have to see if there is a .pdf of that book and search for the phrase. That is the 4th book in his Watchman series, did you read the other 3?

[BretG]

Just finished "As On A Darkling Plain" by Ben Bova. Some interesting concepts, and I didn't understand the shifting narratives until I found out it was two short stories grafted together.
I like good cover art and found no connection between it and the story. The title also could not be matched to any part of the book either.
Overall, it's not recommended by me.