this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2026
64 points (100.0% liked)

Books

8256 readers
26 users here now

A community for all things related to Books.

Rules

  1. Be Nice. No personal attacks or hate speech.
  2. No spam. All posts should be related to discussion or reviews related to books. (Please avoid posts that are just a link to the book and a generic summary)
  3. No self promotion.

Official Bingo Posts:

Related Communities

Community icon by IconsBox (from freepik.com)

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
dresden@discuss.online
dresden_do@lemmy.world
JaymesRS@literature.cafe
JaymesRS@lemmy.world
dresden@piefed.world
64
What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 21 (discuss.online)
submitted 2 days ago by dresden@discuss.online to c/books@lemmy.world
61 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Still reading When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.

Had some vacation, so didn't get time to read much.

What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?

Check Official Bingo Challenge Post and the accompanying Recommendations Post for our Bingo for 2026!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Happy cake day dude!

I have done the first 4 books of The Dresden Files now. It is alright and the last book, the summer knight was better than those preceding it but generally not sure how I feel about it so far.

It isn't bad and I will continue on a few more books to see how it goes. I like the ideas and setting but I really don't like any of the characters to be honest, particularly Dresden and his excessively ethical approach to everything even to his own detriment is pretty fucking tiring to be honest. Also if I hear the word fuego one more time I might break things.......

So to have a break from Dresden I have been listening to He Who Fights Monsters. It is another litrpg book and so far it is like Solo Levelling and Dungeon Crawler Carl had a child with a bit of Beware of Chicken sprinkled in. It isn't bad so far but as it is right now all of the aforementioned books do what they do a lot better. I'll see how I feel at the end of this first book but I think it could go either way.

[โ€“] elephantium@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's been a while since I've read the Dresden books, but IIRC it sticks pretty close to the formula:

There's a new threat in town.

Dresden investigates.

Dresden gets in over his head and mouths off at the baddies.

Dresden gets the shit kicked out of him.

Dresden refuses to give up. His grit is key to vanquishing the threat even when it looked impossible.

He does fuego a lot in the early books. I think that lessens later on, but IDK how soon it tapers off.

I do enjoy how he upgrades his equipment from story to story.