I’m reading this on my lunch breaks:

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    19·
    10 days ago

    I’m reading Labor’s Untold Story. It’s about the rise of unions. The latest chapter ended with a capitalist killing themselves, so pretty damn good so far.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        It’s weird. I don’t hate it, but the author spends way too much time dealing with “timeline forks” (I’ll call it that to avoid spoilers) in a limited setting with a lot of reiteration and lack of any real plot advancement or character development. It’s not awful, I don’t hate it, but it’s a completely different book than the first or second. If you liked the first and didn’t care for the second you probably won’t like this one at all.

      • kat_angstrom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        I’m not the Op, but I found book 3 even more of a let-down than book 2. Just felt a bit more contrived, even though it did add some valuable contributions to the universe, and I’ll read book 4 when it comes out.

    • pturn1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      Great book—really looking forward to the film. Hope they do the book justice!

      • Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Oh it really is, I had to remind myself everytime I have work in the morning to stop reading and go to sleep lol Please suggest me a book for my next read.

        • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          If you liked Project Hail Mary, then you should read the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor. The premise is as follows:

          Bob is dead. Long live Bob.

          Software engineer Robert Johansen uses his share of the money from the buyout of his company (the rest having been split amongst the employees) to start a trust to support his end-of-life maintenance needs. But Bob’s idea of “end-of-life” is being cryogenically frozen until such a time as whatever killed him can be fixed. What he wasn’t counting on, however, was getting hit by a car later that day and waking up over a hundred years later. Finding that, not only has he not been revived, but instead digitised, but also that the christofascist government doesn’t recognise him as a human or worthy of rights, he is surprised to also be informed that the reason they instantiated his consciousness was to become the guiding intelligence of a Von Neumann Probe, and that Bob is going to the stars… At least, he should be, as long as none of the opposing factions in the government or any of the other countries also building their own probes nuke him first.

          Bobiverse is an example of hard science fiction, with similar limitations to what PHM uses. The primary conceits that go beyond what’s currently assumed to be possible are:

          1. the assumption that it is possible to simulate consciousness using electronic media
          2. the existence of some method of interacting with the fabric of reality to warp spacetime through a reactionless drive (here called “subspace theory”). This assumption allows for interstellar travel over reasonable time scales (but not superluminal travel) and, later, communications. Think a combination of the “Ansible” and the Bussard ramjet from “Tau Zero”
          3. the fantasy that most people have comprehensible reasons for their actions.
  • DivineDev@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

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    I don’t really read much, this is my first book since a couple years since I wanted something to do while on a plane. I really like it though, the court intrigue and attempts to consolidate power are interesting if you can keep up with all the different characters, and there are many. The author also uses quite a lot of not-so-common words, so as a non-native speaker you’ll have to infer a bit from context but I didn’t find it too bad.

    • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Heyyy! I read that one some years back. I liked it. Quite good handling of realpolitik and racism in a fantasy setting. I especially liked that even with a main character that was as committed to positive change as possible, it still was a massive struggle to actually accomplish anything.

    • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Quite a choice to get back into reading! It’s definitely not the easiest read with its court lingo and endless list of names and titles, but very nice that you enjoyed it nevertheless.

      It’s one of my favourite books in somewhat ‘positive’ fantasy outlook that does not veer into kitsch. Whenever I think back to it I just remember feeling really cozy with the characters, even if it dealt with some real issues.

        • __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          Any of them. I’ve read a few and none have been connected in any way, so I don’t think the order matters. I think I started there and went to Use of Weapons next.

          • Ragallos@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            Right, I know they are all standalone novels. So my mect choice of book in the series either came from a suggestion from somebody or a die roll.

            Being a tabletop gaming nerd and having a spiteful interest in game theory made The Player of Games an easy first choice.

        • me_jumper@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Many people follow something like this reading order, or just read by publication date. For the death series I’d argue it’s not that important, others depend on each other a bit more. It’s definitely not a problem to just go in a random order though, he always tried to make the books stand on their own. In some ways I would argue it’s way more fun to go randomly, but if you are easily confused by timelines you might not like it 😊

    • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Oh man Erikson. You are, uhh, in the middle of an absolute leviathan of a series. I’ve re-read the main ten-book series a number of times and made new connections every time. Most of the side content has done nothing for me, however.