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submitted 13 hours ago by Today@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Would you like to share your current reading list?

I just finished Never Flinch- one of Stephen King's Holly books. Was good.

Currently reading Knife- Salman Rushdie's book about his attack.

I think Catch-22 is next. I've never read it.

I tried Dungeon Crawler Carl but gave up on about page 16.

My son gave me a book called How to Live with Objects. I tend to pick it up when I want something non-scrolling. It's pretty good.

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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago

Nope. I'm on book 5 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's trash and I love it. Listening to the audiobook. That absolutely matters in this case. Hell, they got the audiobook narrator voicing Princess Donut for the live-action series. The cat is going to be voiced off-screen/dubbed in since, you know, cats don't actually speak, but we don't know how they're going to do the cat. I'm assuming some kind of CGI, since she wears glasses, a tiara, and has various other adornments. Not to mention shoots lasers out of her eyes.

Never got into the Holly Gibney books by Stephen King. I read the first two Mr Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but I couldn't get into the third one, so I didn't read the standalone ones, either. Also, I watched The Outsider on TV and thought it sucked, so I didn't bother with the book. Also, the subject matter makes me uncomfortable, so that's another barrier to entry.

I think I might read the Expanse series next. There are nine books in the series, and that's just the books. There are a bunch of short stories. The TV show adapted the first six books and some of the stories (as they provide background). There's a whole reading list for the series, and I have it ready to go whenever.

I also want to re-read the Vampire Chronicles series. I read Interview With the Vampire a long time (25+ years) ago, and after watching the AMC series, and watching the 1994 film again, I want to go back to the source material. I started The Vampire Lestat back then, but never finished it. I think I read it after seeing the movie, and I liked Claudia's story because the actress was about my age at the time. So it was hard to move onto the next one. I heard she gets more content later, though. (Worth noting that while in the movie she was 11 or 12, and in the AMC series she was 14, in the books she was five. Very different ages, very different personality types. So, very different characters.)

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't like audiobooks, so maybe that was my issue with it too? My ex really loved that series and she also exclusively listens to books. I'm hesitant to even call audiobooks reading though tbh

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 3 points 11 hours ago

I reqlly like Dungeon Crawler Carl so far. I wouldn't call it trash, it's obviously not high literature either. I also read the first manga that is out and it's... Interesting, but i wish the art was better. I'm only halfway through book 2, and i find it interesing how many books they are, since they start off with an end in sight, and that "end" can't be that far away seemingly. I usually hate meme speech in media, but somehow they are walking the fine line of being funny and annoying. The fact that the protagonist calls the cringe out is usually also not my thing, but it weirdly makes sense.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

It's trash. The guy constantly uses the wrong words for stuff and the books desperately needs an editor to say "say what now?"

[-] Ghoelian@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

I just finished the first book. I definitely noticed some spelling mistakes and odd choice of words, but definitely not constant. In the end, I liked the story, so I guess I don't really care that much.

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