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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? August 13 (discuss.online)
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Finished The Passage by Justin Cronin. First book in The Passage trilogy. Overall, liked the book. The start was slow, giving me Stephen King vibes, but it picked up the pace as it went along. It was too long though, and can't get myself to start next one right away.

Read couple of son's books to change pace. The Ghoul in the School by Marcus Rashford and Alex Falase-Koya, the second book in The Breakfast Club Adventures. And Unexpected Super Spy by Zanib Mian, second book in Planet Omar series.

Also read, and just finished 5 mins before this post, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, book 3 of his secret projects, and part of Cosmere, but a standalone book, which can be read without any knowledge of his other work. I loved this book. Like most of his "secret projects" books, couldn't put it down once I picked it up.

Currently Reading... nothing. Just finished the previous book and haven't decided what to start next... leaning towards next Dresden Files novel though... let's see.

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

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[–] nuggsy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm still finishing up with Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, but I got a Kobo ereader recently and have started to read The Stand by Stephen King. I have 36hrs to go apparently!

Edit: The Stand and not The Strand.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

36 hours! That's long. Though, that's mostly how King's books are.

[–] nuggsy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Apparently, King went back and re-edited/revised The Stand to add things he liked and remove stuff he thought was pointless narrative, which made the book even longer.

I may also be reading a little slower to fully take in the words I'm reading. I think I have a habit of reading too fast and so I'm not really taking in a fuller picture of what I'm reading. So, not sure if that also factors in?

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't like The Stand much. I read it a long time ago, and was pretty young back then, but I always though the book would've been great if he had just cut out half of the stuff.

Funny story, for a long time I kept confusing it with The Shining, and whenever people would mention Shining as his best work, I would always reply that well, it was just okay, and too long. It was only somewhat recently when I figured out that The Stand is a different book and I have never actually read The Shining 😀

[–] nuggsy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently, in 1990, it "was reprinted as The Complete & Uncut Edition. King restored over 400 pages of text that had been removed from his original manuscript, revised the order of the chapters, shifted the novel's setting 10 years forward from 1980 to 1990, and accordingly corrected a number of cultural references." according to Wikipedia.

I haven't been able to put the book down but, I think I can see where young you was coming from. I've just got up to where a lot of stuff kicks off and that's at least 600 pages in with 2200 odd left. The Shining is 447...

But, I absolutely loved The Shining and would recomend going to read the actual version of it, and not it's strange much longer cousin, lol. It's one of my favourites, along with Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and Dissolution by C.J. Samson

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Making it even longer? I just checked my copy, it's the 80s version, with only 800 or so pages.

I'll check out The Shining, and the other favourites you have mentioned.

[–] nuggsy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Apologies, it's 1153 pages. It's 2830 on the reader though. But, yes, he restored 400 pages that had originally been removed from the original.

I would like to read The Shining again. Maybe later this year, or next.

Enjoy :)