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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? October 8 (discuss.online)

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Still reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. Book 2 of The Passage trilogy, so no change there.

It has become quite interesting though (or maybe it's just the Stockholm syndrome talking), I am in last 1/3 or maybe 1/4th of the book, and things have started to get together, though I still don't know what's the goal in this book. From all I have read, this seems to just be a 'middle' book whose purpose is to explore the world and take us from book 1 to book 3 where everything will be concluded.

Let's see how I feel by the time I finish it.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

About to start reading Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed after finishing Frederik Pohl's The Merchants of Venus, which was an incredibly well done little novella about a shady tour guide giving rich clients a chance at discovering riches on Venus.

The Dispossessed is generally regarded as some of the best Anarchist sci-fi around, depicting how that society could potentially look like in practice. I anticipate It'll be quite good.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

I have read some of Ursula Le Guin's, but I don't think I have read The Dispossessed. Or any book in the Hainish Cycle. Should check them out.

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