I am reading The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths. A Ruth Galloway mystery. It was supposed to be a quick read, but got busy with some stuff, so going slowly.
What about all of you? What are you reading, or listening these days?
Note: So, I posted this last week, but for some issue with federation it didn’t actually sync. So, this will be another one and half week post.
The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee
Tl;Dr all the artist and patrons of the Renaissance were pretty much deviants in every conceivable manner.
Seems like worth a read then. Would look forward to your review once you have finished it.
Currently listening to [Psychokinetic] Eyeball Pulling by FreeID, narrated by Amanda Dolan through Audible.
Up next Tenacity by Dakota Krout, narrated by Luke Daniels through BookFunnel.
Ah, litRPG. How are you liking them? My experience with them has pretty much all been in web novels, with one exception of Cradle novels, or is that a different genre?
Cool, subscribed.
Though, in my personal opinion, instead of creating niche communities, if there is a bigger community that covers the topic, and is not very busy, it’s better to get the discussions going there, and only create a separate community when there is enough people and content. Or when there is too much other discussion overshadowing your discussion.
Not saying this because I am a mod here, but because there aren’t enough people here (on lemmy) yet, so having too many communities don’t always work well.
Just my two cents though.
Technically, Cradle and the preceding series to Dakota Krout’s Completionist Chronicles, Divine Dungeon, are in the cultivation genre rather than LitRPG. That said, the two are so closely related that they can often be interchangeable. The biggest differences would be that cultivation uses energy/essence to gain power while litRPGs use experience points to gain levels. I think cultivation books tend to have looser rules(principles maybe?) binding them whereas litRPGs have more rigid video game constraints/rulesets (although the best litRPGs lay out rules early on that allow for a great flexibility in how a player can operate within them).
Speaking on both, I think the a lot of people gravitate towards the power fantasy of the genres which has led to them being oversaturated with a lot of sub-par series. There’s some good gems in there. Cradle is pretty good, I didn’t get super far in the series but I respect it. I do think Dakota Krout writes the best series in Divine Dungeon and Completionist Chronicles, although you do have to accept the puns, and that all of the main protagonists have very transactional personalities. The Life Reset series has an interesting premise and town management. If you want straight video gaming, I think Ascend Online is pretty good at capturing the best parts of the MMORPG grind, or there’s Awaken Online if you need to embrace your inner edge-lord.
Reading Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. I love the humor in his writing style, but it does make the non action parts a bit slower reading. I’m also listening through Nona the Ninth, the third book in the Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir. Moira Quirk’s narration makes this such a delight. Only drawback is waiting for my book club to catch up so I can read more.
Oooh, Harkaway is a son of Le Carré, nice!
There isn’t much info about The Locked Tomb on wikipedia, but from what I have read it seems interesting. Going to check it out.
Locked Tomb has its own wiki on fandom, but if you’re planning on reading it I’d steer clear, as it’s a pretty spoilerable series.
I have added it to my wishlist, but knowing me and backlog, it is going to take a few years before I even start it. 😀
My partner and I are about a third of the way through Frank Herbert’s ‘God Emperor or Dune’. It’s getting really good!
I haven’t started it quiiite yet per se but I’ve picked up Osamu Tezuka’s ‘One Hundred Stories’, a period samurai manga retelling of Faust.
Reading through all Dune books?
One Hundred Stories sounds interesting, will look it up.
We are! I actually got him so into the series he finished well ahead of me lol. But now we are listening through together as we fall asleep :D One Hundred Tales has been a lot of fun, it’s very Tezuka and having watched Pluto recently it’s scratching that very specific itch lol
I’m listening to Alex Verus 4 right now, and loving it. I like any series with an interesting magic system, and I really like the idea of adepts versus mages (single powerful spells versus versatility within one type of magic).
