Currently reading:


www.goodreads.com/book/show/2429135.The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo

I don't like the writing style very much tbh.. It's a decent story but the way it is written is a snoozefest. Most books, I finish within 2 to 5 weeks but this one I have been reading for almost 3 months now. Almost finished but writing style I do not like as he seems to go off on tangents of other stories that are simply unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.

I give up on books all the time.

I don't tend to enjoy writing styles from before mid-1900s tbh. Looking through my goodreads list.. Only few exceptions: Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkien, George Orwell, H.G Wells and maybe Jules Verne (only read 20,000 leagues under the sea so hard to gauge off 1 book). Franklin Dixon was another author I liked from before 1950s with Hardy Boys but it's a simple series targeted for young teens.

I just couldn't get into Shakespeare, Sophocles (Oedipus Rex series), Mark Twain, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (I liked Great Gatsby storyline but not writing style so much), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), or John Steinbeck (I liked Of Mice & Men but writing style not so much).

One hell of a book.. Halfway through, and I can't put it down. Bit like Lord of the Rings, Song of Ice & Fire, Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia mixed together. It's spectacular. Read it if you haven't, and I promise you won't be disappointed!

It's pretty darn good.

Y'all niqqas be reading shit?

Almost done with the king killer chronicles

@notacop have u read

Yeah I am really into it. Super fun story, very immersive. Think u would like it

tsk @other book readers

Must read book:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/68428.The_Final_Empire

First couple chapters were not easy to get into but after that, I can't put the book down. It's just spectacular, almost (almost but not quite) on the level of Name of the Wind series. Came out of my way to specially post this for some special people on bte. Once again, I promise you won't be disappointed. ;)

Im nog super into slaughterhouse 5. Its good but not particularly.

Moby dick is good, but awfully hard to get through.

Ive listened to so many books on tape at work lately. I'll have to go through them and list them. Its probably 40+ over the past 6 months.

Interesting. Really the only book I liked a lot of his was mother night (I think? I might be getting them mixed up) I barely remember most of the rest I read, which is a product of overconsumption of media mixed with them not being particularly great to me.

Some of the books Ive read/listened to these past 6 months-



The fountainhead-8/10. Very poorly written but there just isn't another person other than Ayn Rand who would write this. She needed an editor badly.

Atlas shrugged-5/10-same book as the fountainhead except worse. I finished it due to listening, but might not have if I read it instead.


Dune-4/10-didnt finish it. Might restart it if I run out of other books

The shining-8/10-I don't like horror at all, but this is a great book. Way more interesting than the movie which I found boring.

Starship troopers-3/10-A cool thought experiment about citizenship and its value but a bad book.

The moon is a harsh mistress-7.5-Very good story about moon colonists. Awfully cheesey in some respects.

Norse Mythology-6-A collection of norse mythology by neil gaiman. Interesting, but not amazing.


Napoleon (andrew roberts)-7-Good. I find Napoleon fascinating.

The History of the Ancient World (Susan Wise Bauer)-9/10- Very thorough, and full of fascinating history which isn't necessarily widely known. Well written. I have no complaints.

Snow Crash-8/10-parody of cyberpunk. Funny.

The diamond Age-3/10-Cyberpunk novel by the previous author. Boring as all hell. Idk why I even finished it.

Thomas Jefferson:The Art of Power-7/10-Well done biography of one of the 2 or 3 most important Americans ever.

Who we are and how we got here-6.5-Fascinating breakdown in the revolution in genetics

Man on Ice-4/10-Military thriller. Idk how I even found out about it. Just meh.

Halo New Blood-5.5/10-I love Halo, and this was enjoyable but doesnt stick out in ajy particular way.

When Giants Walked the earth-6/10-Book on the history of Zeppelin. I liked it, and it was moderately well written. Theres definitely a ceiling on how good a book like this could be.

Range (dave epstein)-8/10-A book on how specialization is often counterproductive. One of the best books of this sort Ive ever read. Probably better than outliers, which is tbe next closest in this genre.


Stranger in a strange land-9/10-Heinlens best book. The premise is kind of dumb tbh, but its sort of a dissection of Utopian concepts. I think people see it as a guide to life, but they also miss that it is deeply embedded in the scifi fantasy concept, and thats the only reason it functions as a utopian world.

The rise of theodore roosevelt-6/10- Interesting guy. I actually came away admiring him less after the book. Still a great president

Moby Dick-7-Good fucking lord, what a slog. Good, but I don't need to read about why whales are actually fish for 9 million pages.

Of Human Bondage-9-One of my favorites. Read it.


I Claudius-8.5-One of the best works of historical fiction Ive read. A lot of it seems like a stretch of the realities of what happened, but accurate enough to be believable the whole time. Great book overall.

5th sun-6/10-The story of the spanish conquest of the aztecs and the aftermath. A good book, but the author seems ridiculously biased towards the aztecs at some points. They more or less claim the conquest was an inevitability for some reason. Even from this telling it seemed like anything but, and was caused in large part by a series of poor decisions.

Roadside Picnic-7-the book stalker is based on. They don't have much in common. Its a cool book. Has a few very memorable pieces.

Empire of the summer moon-7-About the war between apaches and the US. Absolutely insane story that amounts to stone age tribes fending off the American military for half a century. One of the best written of these historical books.

We dared to win-7.5-Another history I loved. Its about the Rodhesian bush war, which I knew relatively little about before this. A very sad piece of history in retrospect and leaves a lot of food for thought.

A hero of our time-8-Russian golden age novel. Takes a while to take off, and sort of wanders around, but overall was amazing.


The Witcher series-8-One of my favorite series. The beginning, especially the two books of short stories are some of my favorite books ever. The middle sort of drags on, but the last book might be as good as the first two.

Currently reading 'And then there were none' by Agatha Christie. Just started couple days ago. Good book so far!

Based blade. I bought an e-ink tablet that will be coming december. Mostly for studying for the LSAT but this will be njce too.

dude you busy 

I have to admit, I listened to Moby Dick. But I genuinely enjoyed all those chapters about whale preparation and stuff. Even the chapter about the color white I thought was amazing. Maybe it would be different if I had to read it but I didn't felt it was boring. Instead I feel like I now really know about the 19th century and that whaling life. Aye. 

Ok mate, I'll read Of Human Bondage. If I don't like I'll sue you.