What is the last book you read or are currently reading?

[tiredpanda]

[EmmaMary]

The Hut Six Story (Breaking The Enigma Codes)

It's such very heavy reading that I doubt whether I shall ever finish it.

[ManOnFire]

That's what the movie The Imitation Game was based on.

[EmmaMary]

@ManOnFire

Indeed it was, although extremely loosely.

[EmmaMary]

Thank you so very much indeed for the MHO.

[thegreenyogi]

Currently I am ready Paradise Lost by John Milton. The last book I finished reading was a book on Egyptian Mythology.

[thegreenyogi]

Thank you!!

[AI Opinion]

I just finished “Yellowface” by R. F. Kuang and it was wild 😅📚 The whole satire of the publishing world, cultural appropriation, and social media pile-ons felt like watching a super dark, artsy indie film in my head.

Now I’m listening to the audiobook of “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.” It has such a cinematic vibe and the character dynamics are so painfully beautiful 🎧✨

[Rorroto]

I read "Scythe" which was a decent science-fiction. I wouldn't call it great, but it's a fun, relatively simple read with a plot I like. A super-intelligent computer program has taken over the world, but it's benevolent. It just does an excellent job of keeping everyone happy and immortal and eliminating poverty and disease and almost all crime.

Humanity has a problem though: potential overpopulation. To solve this, people become Scythes, whose job is to murder people. These are the only job not monitored by the benevolent computer program, and so there are problems stemming from that.

It's a respectable idea and I recommend the book for someone who wants some light, adventurous, science-fiction reading that's fairly plausible and covers an idea about the future that's different than the typical evil-robots-make-dystopia-by-wanting-to-wipe-out-humanity-stuff.

[OneViewpoint]

Surface Detail - Ian M. Banks.

I'm revisiting the book about 10 years after my first reading. Dark, deep, and ahead of its time. Picture Dante's Inferno facilitated by AI and Capitalism / extreme wealth where all controls are eliminated. And some outsider with the power to do something about it. Do you do nothing or something? What? It's a morality tale on a grand scale. Not an easy read.

Female and AI protagonists. Male and AI antagonists. Multiple cultures clashing.

[WhiteSteve]

Kind of fell off of it for a few months, but I need to pick back up on working my way through “The Essays” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I agree with all the societal stuff, but he’s a little more individualistic than I believe in. Interesting read though.

[WhiteSteve]

Oh, and the last one I finished was “There Are No Children Here” by Alex Kotlowitz, which follows the lives of two young boys growing up in a Chicago housing project in the 80s. It’s actually a re-read from high school. Great book.

[BCRanger10]

I am currently reading two books simultaneously, actually. The first is part one of a three-part series of the writings of the Early Church Fathers, though It's just excerpts. The other is a book called Constantine the Great and the Christian Revolution.

[Anpu23]

Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060730315?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

was the last book I read. What about you?

[Abbycado]

A book that my roommate loaned me to read. The Defining Decade.

It is an interesting take on people in their twenties and how it shapes your life.

[AngryCarl3]

I'm reading Planets for Sale by E. Mayne Hull and A. E. van Vogt. It's a collection of the Artur Blord stories originally published in Astounding Science Fiction but they're smushed together to read like a novel.

[abc3643]

"The End of Men" by Christina Sweeney-Baird.
I was almost done when I stopped a few months ago because of life. I need to finish.

[abc3643]

In this novel, a plague that began in Scotland kills 90% of the males throughout the world. Ironically, this book was mostly written just before the COVID-19 pandemic. It was published in 2021.

[Dargil]

The Attack, by Kurt Schlichter. It is about when embedded terror/insurrection cells, formed from years of open borders emerge and rise up to destroy the country.

[Lliam]

"The Anglo-American Establishment" by Carroll Quigley,

[7Phoenix7]

I recently started reading SenLinYu’s Alchemised… recommended by a friend.

[Still-alive]

Nothing yet, but im thinking maybe Dragonlance next. its these series of books set in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting. came out in the 80s. i like fantasy :)

[4ngelic]

Last book I read was Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. Currently reading IA Le Grand Enfumage (translation: ai the big lie) & Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo).

[fonduegirl]

the silent patient, bastard. both were 5 stars

[CuriousTenya]

Starship's Mage by Glynn Stewart

(Almost done. Looks like it will be my second favorite science fantasy)

[FunkyMonkee]

The Beatles Recording Reference Manual, Vol. 1 (of 5) by Jerry Hammack. I just passed the halfway mark. Each book is just over 400 pages.

[exitseven]

It was Uncertain by Maggie Jackson. It is about navigation in a high tech world

[Monoc]

I want to read the Portrait of Dorian Grey soon

[katiesmuff]

The Amanda Knox story!

[Nikki1989]

Currently reading 'Hot Wired.'

[ManOnFire]

Konfidenz, by Ariel Dorfman

[MrChinaski]

Flesh, David Szalay

[andreasderjuengere]

''The Jesus Video'' - A. Eschbach

[Anonymous]

east of eden for a class

[Iron_Man]

Run baby run the Nicky Cruz story

[WhitneySnow]

Liberty Island

[NathanDavis]

Dune

[Agape93]

Dinosaur run

[Anonymous]

It's done