Anonymous · 3mo · No.6
/wayr/ - what are you reading thread
Anonymous · 3mo · No.7
I just recently finished reading Naked by david sedaris and Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Deadby olga tokarczuk. They were great reads and I think they went well together stylistically for some reason. A coworker recommended a book called Broad Band about women's history in computing. Looking forward to picking that up next when it gets here
Anonymous · 3mo · No.10
Currently going through "Atlas der erfundenen Orte" (orig. title: "The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps"). Interesting, nicely printed maps.
Anonymous · 3mo · No.11
that looks like what atlus nerds in elementary school would read as adults I love it
Anonymous · 3mo · No.12
atlas*
Anonymous · 3mo · No.15
i haven't yet gotten into pratchett for no particular reason. i decided to pick up his A Slip of the Keyboard before diving into the fiction and it's fantastic so far. i honestly found the section on advice to booksellers when hosting book signings to be especially hilarious. it seems like such a banal topic but every obvious question and comment has a story behind it
Anonymous · 3mo · No.16
what was the advice? I still have a lot of the discworld series in front of me, but my friend started me off with Going Postal and I agree that it's a great entry point for the series, if you ever decide to dive into it
Anonymous · 3mo · No.17
i found a post of it online here: https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/advice-booksellers
https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/advice-booksellers
Anonymous · 3mo · No.20
Currently on book 4 of the Old Man's War series (Zoe's Tale). I keep flip flopping between John Scalzi stuff and the Culture series.
Anonymous · 3mo · No.21
The Culture series is such a treat. Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, the Series
Anonymous · 3mo · No.22
Making my way through Joyce's Portrait. Love the way the language evolves as he grows older. Really is unbeatable as a writer.
Anonymous · 3mo · No.24
@11/12: Exactly :-) Love me my maps since elementary! Makes my mind travel even in times I'm umable to.
Anonymous · 3mo · No.25
Just finished the first 5 books in The Craft Sequence. All the stuff I have saved up to read next feels like kind of a drag, though, so I might go back to Pratchett as a palette cleanser before I try to get really into Elena Ferrante.
Anonymous · 3mo · No.26
I'm reading Crime and Punishment. I'm not well read. It's a compelling read. I'm increasingly aware that life 150 years ago, and in far away lands, differed from ours mainly in terms of gadgets. Oh, and that everything was in greyscale back then. Color hadn't been invented, I suppose.
Anonymous · 3mo · No.27
>26just a little light reading?
Anonymous · 3mo · No.35
Ed Mastery. It's better than you'd expect. (Yes, that ed, as in "ed is the standard Unix text editor".)
Anonymous · 3mo · No.41
so did you ever figure out how to quit Ed?
https://i.imgur.com/oLDwOCg.png
https://i.imgur.com/oLDwOCg.png
Anonymous · 3mo · No.42
> If you don’t know ed, you’re not a sysadmin. You're a mere dabbler. A dilettante. Deficient.
well sign me up lol
Anonymous · 3mo · No.97
@27 It's not heavy-going at all. Long, though insightful. e.g. issues of proper gender equality were a thing way back then. Still issues today. Shamefully slow progress.
Anonymous · 3mo · No.343
@10 thanks to your post i just received my own copy of "Atlas der erfundenen Orte" this afternoon. i am looking forward to browsing through it later today!
Anonymous · 2mo · No.494
I'm reading "How to be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century" by Erik Olin Wright. An easy and enjoyable read by an erudite sociologist. Does a good job of clearly explaining what socialism is versus what it's commonly understood to be, and provides guidance on ways by which one might erode capitalism. This is the sort of book I wish my conservative parents would read, and one which I'd recommend to anyone else who (like me) has a hard time penetrating the academic language that much of Marxist theory tends to be written in.
Anonymous · 2mo · No.502
Just finished "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai. Very quick read, and quite tragic.
Anonymous · 1mo · No.558
Reading through Dante's Inferno for the first time. What a trip.
Anonymous · 27d · No.568
hello!
