What are you currently reading?

I'm not reading a book at the moment, but during my walks, I am listening to the audiobook of Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, which I read back in 1988. I have issues with Card, but the first four Ender books were great.

@goathunter 

Totally understand how people can have issues with his as a person, but you are right, those first Ender books were really good.

I have the versions that Centipede published awhile back (Ender's Game was actually my first Centipede book - and boy did I have some weird quality control issues with that book!)

A year or so (probably longer) ago, Humble Bundle did a bundle of the entire Ender seriers which I purchased. Haven't revisited those books though - really trying to read new things, but the draw to revisit previously read books (or previously watched movies) is so strong!

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@goathunter 

Totally understand how people can have issues with his as a person, but you are right, those first Ender books were really good.

I have the versions that Centipede published awhile back (Ender's Game was actually my first Centipede book - and boy did I have some weird quality control issues with that book!)

A year or so (probably longer) ago, Humble Bundle did a bundle of the entire Ender seriers which I purchased. Haven't revisited those books though - really trying to read new things, but the draw to revisit previously read books (or previously watched movies) is so strong!

I enjoyed ENDER'S GAME, but had diminishing returns on the subsequent books, so ended up selling my Centipede series. That was not too far before selling off my Centipede DUNE series (at three volumes in). At that point, I just had to finally admit that SF is really not my bag, or maybe more accurately, the kind of SF I do enjoy is so niche and humanistic-almost-not-SF (e.g. FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON) that buying collectible volumes of hard and/or vintage SF is not a wise investment for me.

I've found that audiobooks help with my desire to re-read while not making me feel guilty about not reading new things. 😎

As I said, I really liked the original four Ender books. I read the first couple that came after that (Ender's Shadow and sometthing else), and found them to be a waste of time. And then he just kept going, telling the same stories over and over from different viewpoints.

I met him at a booksigning at BYU in '88, and I had him sign my copy of Ender's War, a Book Club edition of Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. He told me at that signing that that was the end of Ender's story. He wasn't going to write any more. I think of that every time I see a new Ender novel.  🤣

I don't read much SF, either. I tried, but most of it just doesn't work for me. But these days, modern horror doesn't work for me, either. 

Just finished off Darker Days and Ratmans Notebooks. 

All of Thomas Olde Heuvelt's books have really clicked for me and this certainly didn't disappoint. 

Ratmans I read a long time ago as a young pup and enjoyed.  So when the suntup edition arrived I dove into that.

Almost done with Sarafina from Fracassi.  Good solid page 

Now just got to decide to either hit the TBR or get something new.

This is also a problem I have - read something in the pile, or grab something new I wasn't planning on.

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Now just got to decide to either hit the TBR or get something new.

Posted by: @parviz

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Just finished off Darker Days and Ratmans Notebooks. 

All of Thomas Olde Heuvelt's books have really clicked for me and this certainly didn't disappoint. 

Ratmans I read a long time ago as a young pup and enjoyed.  So when the suntup edition arrived I dove into that.

Almost done with Sarafina from Fracassi.  Good solid page 

Now just got to decide to either hit the TBR or get something new.

RATMAN'S NOTEBOOKS has long been one of my favorites, so I was excited and delighted when Suntup announced their edition. I even grabbed the ribbon bookmark tchotchke w/ the rat and book, and I always skip those types of things. They did a really nice job on the book, glad to add it to my U.S. 1st HC.

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Posted by: @parviz

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Just finished off Darker Days and Ratmans Notebooks. 

All of Thomas Olde Heuvelt's books have really clicked for me and this certainly didn't disappoint. 

Ratmans I read a long time ago as a young pup and enjoyed.  So when the suntup edition arrived I dove into that.

Almost done with Sarafina from Fracassi.  Good solid page 

Now just got to decide to either hit the TBR or get something new.

 

RATMAN'S NOTEBOOKS has long been one of my favorites, so I was excited and delighted when Suntup announced their edition. I even grabbed the ribbon bookmark tchotchke w/ the rat and book, and I always skip those types of things. They did a really nice job on the book, glad to add it to my U.S. 1st HC.

 

Started my re-read of The Talisman ( Wow, since the eighties!) I’ll take my time and probably gets some other books in between 

then Black House, all in anticipation of T3 coming out this fall. I hope.

I believe I last/first read The Talisman when Black House came out so it's been awhile.

Last night at game night, I was telling our friends that I have so many books that I've never read, but keep finding myself gravitating to re-reads. This is a perfect example of that. I don't remember anything from these books so T3 will be a mystery to me when I do get to it.

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Started my re-read of The Talisman ( Wow, since the eighties!) I’ll take my time and probably gets some other books in between 

then Black House, all in anticipation of T3 coming out this fall. I hope.

I try to read one big series each year, breaking them up with unrelated books between series entries. Right now I'm re-reading King's Dark Tower series. I'm currently about halfway through the third boo, The Waste Lands.

This was the series I specifically mentioned to our gaming friends - literally hundreds of books I haven't read, but I really want to reread The Dark Tower. The pull isn't as hard as it was a few years ago when The Kingcast had Matt Fraction on and they were talking to him as he was going through the series. Just hearing his excitement made me excited to reread the series.

I tried to get my wife into it, but she gave up after the Waste Lands. Just wasn't for her.

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I try to read one big series each year, breaking them up with unrelated books between series entries. Right now I'm re-reading King's Dark Tower series. I'm currently about halfway through the third boo, The Waste Lands.

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I tried to get my wife into it, but she gave up after the Waste Lands. Just wasn't for her.

She's not alone. I've tried twice and got, like your wife, as far as book 3 the second time around, and ultimately just had to throw in the towel. It was at the moment that I understood fantasy is just not for me, no matter how gritty and rough-hewn the Dark Tower saga seemed to suggest it was.

Dark Tower is about as close to Fantasy as I get. I see why it’s not for everyone, though.