Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno and Postmodernism by Frederick Jameson. Just finished Lacanβs lectures on the 4 fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and understood about 10%. Iβm playing catch-up with the serious people from the last century.
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Currently reading Coda vol. 1 right now. Liking the main character particularly his pentacorn.
The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick.
It's fantasy, but feels pretty fresh to me with the focus being on the main characters trying to con a rich family and less of the more usual (but no less fun) adventuring, combat etc. (at least so far, I'm still very early in the book).
If you like that kind of story you might want to read The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
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Escape from Billings Mall, by Chuck Tingle. It's a choose your own adventure book!
The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros.
Seeing Like A State by James C Scott.
A couple, The Institute by Stephen King and Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Wastelands - Stephen King. It's kinda nearing the middle of the Dark Tower series and it's pretty damn good.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson. Itβs the third of his Kickstarter books and Iβm enjoying it so far, but Iβve barely started it.
"The Dawn of Everything"
It's a thick one but it's worth it because it gives you a whole different view on history
The latest Thrawn book
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Actually I'm at 52%. The reason I stopped because of exams
Diary of a Drug Addict by Alister Crowley
Fellowship of the Ring but also Children of Hurin
Currently listening through Worm again. I read it the first time, now I'm listening and it's just as good as I remember it.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Ministry for the Future. So good, so painful.
I don't know if it counts as "in the middle", but I left off reading a book about heaven 8 had borrowed from my mom before I lost religion, and completely lost interest in it.
Don't think I'll ever go back, but that's the book I left unfinished. Haven't read anything in years. I was big on audiobooks for a while before I couldn't afford audible anymore.
Used to have a job that I could listen while I worked on my own and because of that I was able to go through a bunch of them.
One I get through my current medical condition (probably a few years off) and I go back to work, I hope I get another job like that.
Pride and Prejudice, it's fine so far
The enterprise of death, it's a fun read
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky and for non fiction, The Friendly Orange Glow, a history of the Plato system. It's an old online community from like the 80s.
Count Zero by William Gibson
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson. Recommend if you like historical fiction & the 20s.
Star By Star. Reading through the old EU New Jedi Order books again. The old EU is the best part of Star Wars.
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik.
Douglas Adams Starship Titanic: A Novel by Terry Jones
I think that is the official title. It's set inside the wider Hitchhikers universe, but so far hasn't touched on the events of that series.
Did take my a fair bit of time to get Into it, but as I approach the halfway point it's definitely got me.
Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan
My notes for the next exam... Before that I was reading the Amaranthe series by G. S. Jennsen. I just finished the first three books which make up a trilogy of their own and don't want to start the sequel trilogy until exams are over because I have no self control
The Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng
Category theory is awesome!
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