What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[macdoc]

Book was informative but not as engaging as Salt.
......
this has me hooked right from the get go.


This guy wrote a very engaging fantasy called Eragon now on 5 sequels when he was 15!!!!
I enjoyed the original.
This is his first sci-fi and he's got a winner.

[rasetsu]

Finished Good Morning, I love You. It was more an advertisement for self-compassionate mindfulness than any real self-help. I've got a couple other similarly themed books out from the library to sample. And I borrowed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies.

I'm looking at picking out a good biography of Lou Reed. Biographies aren't my thing, but I'm a big Lou Reed fan.

[rasetsu]

I have had a lifelong interest in philosophy, but I know next to nothing about the branch of philosophy concerning metaphysics. A recent online debate prompted some thinking that involves the conventions surrounding metaphysics that I don't know the answer to, so I'm hoping to resolve the question. It has implications for some of the more popular theistic arguments.

[rasetsu]

I've had some interesting thoughts on free will recently, so I'm doing some background research.

[JimC]

I am a big fan of Dan Dennett - I have several of his books. His philosophy makes a lot of sense to me, with its strands of atheism and evolutionary science...

[rasetsu]

I've been meaning to read the Gita for several decades. Listening to it now. Maybe it's time.

[macdoc]

new hard sci-fi author for me ...quite prolific

Description:
Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun. Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes.

[macdoc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Makin ... %2DFiction.

Brilliant Pulitzer winner and learned a lot...listening to it this time on Audible.....what a tale.

[Brian Peacock]

Written during, and set against the backdrop of the pandemic.



It's a glorious, lightheaded romp! Great characters, snappy dialogue, and a fabulous setting.

From the author's afterword: "KPS is not, and I say this with absolutely no slight intended, a brooding symphony of a novel. It’s a pop song. It’s meant to be light and catchy, with three minutes of hooks and choruses for you to sing along with, and then you’re done and you go on with your day, hopefully with a smile on your face. We all need a pop song from time to time, particularly after a stretch of darkness."

[macdoc]

I like Scalsi..very similar to Heinlien.

[Brian Peacock]

Absolutely. He's really leaning into that here too.

[Joe]

Got that one on my wish list for Christmas.

[rasetsu]

I've still got a few chapters to go in the Gita, but I'm going to get Eknath Easwaran's Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living soon. They want $19 for the Kindle version, so I'm waiting until January to buy it. In the meantime, I've got the audiobook versions of his translation of the Upanishads and the Dhammapada. The Upanishads don't interest me too much, but I'm reconsidering my prior Hinduism. Not as a religious practice, but as a secular philosophy centered around Buddhist and Hindu concepts of the self, the world, and what constitutes right living. Of course, if someone asks, they may be puzzled to hear that I'm a Hindu Taoist with a Bhuddist mindset.

[macdoc]

Harry Potter Book 5 ...Order of the Phoenix and discovered I had never read it tho have seen the movie numerous times.

[JimC]

Of all the adaptations of books to the big screen, I think that the Harry Potter films have remained the closest to the books...