Books / Lit What you reading thread?

[Quagmire]

Always been curious about that. May need to add it to the list.

Really good, much more of a page turner than I expected. It scratches the itch that Pentiment left on me.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Outside of my usual comic book intake, I'm reading The Last Town by Blake Crouch, the last book of the Wayward Pines Trilogy.

I picked up the first book on a lark one day just because the description on the back reminded me of Twin Peaks (maybe my favorite media of all time) and I have found the series pretty enjoyable (obviously, or I wouldn't be on the last book). Turns out the author was a massive Twin Peaks fan and this was kind of his homage to it.

It's fast-paced easy to breeze through mystery/thriller fare with a heavy sci-fi bent. Great junk food reading, if that makes sense.

There's a TV adaptation of it, I learned. I watched a bit of it...its okay. As usual, books are better.

I've since heard good things about a couple of his other books so I'll probably head that way next.

 

[Quagmire]

Outside of my usual comic book intake, I'm reading The Last Town by Blake Crouch, the last book of the Wayward Pines Trilogy.

I picked up the first book on a lark one day just because the description on the back reminded me of Twin Peaks (maybe my favorite media of all time) and I have found the series pretty enjoyable (obviously, or I wouldn't be on the last book). Turns out the author was a massive Twin Peaks fan and this was kind of his homage to it.

It's fast-paced easy to breeze through mystery/thriller fare with a heavy sci-fi bent. Great junk food reading, if that makes sense.

There's a TV adaptation of it, I learned. I watched a bit of it...its okay. As usual, books are better.

I've since heard good things about a couple of his other books so I'll probably head that way next.

Add another book to my TBR

 

[Crazy Jamie]

Outside of my usual comic book intake, I'm reading The Last Town by Blake Crouch, the last book of the Wayward Pines Trilogy.

I picked up the first book on a lark one day just because the description on the back reminded me of Twin Peaks (maybe my favorite media of all time) and I have found the series pretty enjoyable (obviously, or I wouldn't be on the last book). Turns out the author was a massive Twin Peaks fan and this was kind of his homage to it.

It's fast-paced easy to breeze through mystery/thriller fare with a heavy sci-fi bent. Great junk food reading, if that makes sense.

There's a TV adaptation of it, I learned. I watched a bit of it...its okay. As usual, books are better.

I've since heard good things about a couple of his other books so I'll probably head that way next.

I read this trilogy a little while ago and completely agree with this.

Blake Crouch has probably become my favourite one shot sci fi author since then. I like John Marrs too, but he's a little more dystopia. Black Crouch is closer to present day sci-fi, but I still class it as sci-fi rather than dystopia for the most part.

There are three books by Blake Crouch that I'd recommend; Dark Matter (which is the source material for the Apple TV series of the same name), Upgrade and Recursion. I actually enjoyed Recursion the most even though Dark Matter is seen as his best. But they're all fast paced sci-fi thrillers. A little more sophisticated than the Wayward Pines trilogy, but they scratch the same itch.

For John Marrs, start with The One (which is a Netflix series) and basically just read the books from the same world in order (they're called the Dark Future series). The One is the best, but they're all dystopian thrillers based on an aspect of our society that isn't real but very well could be. The One is a new dating app, The Marriage Act is harsh new laws being passed around marriage, The Family Experiment is reality television and Passengers is self driving cars. Again, they all scratch that same itch. You can read them in any order, but if you read them in order there are little Easter Eggs that refer back to previous books, which is a nice touch.

 

[Quagmire]

Outside of my usual comic book intake, I'm reading The Last Town by Blake Crouch, the last book of the Wayward Pines Trilogy.

Just realized he also wrote Dark Matter which I loved!

 

[rktaker]

started reading the Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides definitely a slow burn and of course I’m already wrong on a couple of things lol so we’ll see where this goes

 

[Crazy Jamie]

So, I finished Failed State before I went on holiday. It's basically an examination of why the public sector/government in the UK is so shit. The author (Sam Freedman) is very good, but if you don't have an interest in British politics you won't know him, nor will you be interested in reading the book.

Always try to get some books read on holiday, and I went for the Radiant Emperor Duology by Shelly Parker-Chan. I've finished the first one, which is She Who Became The Sun, and am just over half way through He Who Drowned The World. It's basically Game of Thrones lite set in medieval China during the period when the Mongols ruled over half of it. I'm really enjoying it. When I say it's GoT lite that's not a criticism. It's much better written than GoT, and I think both the violence and sex is generally much better done (it's not nearly as graphically violent), but it's two books and 900 pages total so is necessarily not as complex. There is virtually nothing by way of a magic system, just some very basic supernatural ish elements and one magic ish element that could be just as easily attributed to religion and/or a lack of understanding of science. It's mostly more of a historical fantasy. Either way, I'd absolutely recommend it for anyone who reads any type of fantasy, but particularly the GoT and Joe Abercrombie type books that are more historical than magical.