What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? February 17 (discuss.online)

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I almost forgot the weekly thread again, so just putting it up, will post my updates later.

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

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[-] ImUsuallyMoreClever@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I finished a Confederacy of Dunces, and Three Body Problem. Now I'm about ⅓ through The Dark Forest.

I'd recommend all three of these books!

A Confederacy of Dunces is a Pulitzer prize winning comedy. By the end of the book you really like Ignatius, even though you hate him in the beginning.

The other two books are part of the "Remembrance of earths past" trilogy. Easy recommend for sci-fi fans.

[-] SupremusRealitas@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

A Confederacy of Dunces is hilarious! It has been awhile since I read it, but the part where Ignatius is in his college classroom and yells Zorro had me cracking up.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ooooh we have similar tastes cause I loved all of those. Igantious was a selfish moron, but an endearing selfish moron I was rooting for by the end.

Dark forest was my personal favorite of the Remembrance trilogy, it has deeply colored my view of any potential IRL aliens in the universe.

A word of warning though, after the trilogy a fan fiction by a different author picked up steam as the "unofficial 4th book" and was even packaged with the original three by the publishers. However, The Redemption of Time is pure stinkin' hot doggie doo-doo. Stay away and let the story end where the Liu Cixin intended.