yearly necro
what books did u cunts get for christmas

also

Listened to The Narrow Road Between Desires audiobook a few weeks ago, it's by Rothfuss as well & while it's not either of the Kingkiller books, it's written in the same way & hearing Kote speak for the first time in over a decade was something special.

I am about done with Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman and it's very entertaining.

I've super given up hope on Rothfuss releasing book 3, I've literally been waiting since TWMF came out.

I didn't get any books for christmas but I read the Southern Reach trilogy this year by Jeff VanderMeer, Annhilation was fucking amazing, it was an incredible read. Authority and Acceptance were very diffferent in atmosphere and not what I was expecting. Still good but they just weren't the same.

Annhilation, the book, is very different from what I remember the film being, with the book being vastly superior imo.

I also started Lord of the Rings again for the first time since I was a kid, it's going to be hard to not think of the movies the whole time.

Just started The World According to Garp by John Irving and I was a little disappointed to find out it wasn't actually about a frog. The actual plot seems plenty interesting though.

This may be out of place here as I struggle to latch onto novels or fiction books, but for my undergrad thesis I've been really enjoying reading Martin Hägglund - Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life. It is probably the most lucid explanation of Derrida, an extremely pleasant read.
Giorgio Agamben - Remnants of Auschwitz is another text I'm going through, though I struggle to say much about it. Agamben's philosophy has been piquing my interest recently. Refreshing and somewhat sobering.

Some books I've read since last time:
Hyperion series - Book 1 was really great. Listened to the audio book version which was really cool with great performances. Book 3 I didn't really enjoy that much.
I Am Legend - Pretty neat book.
Rendezvous with Rama
Carrion Comfort - Pretty enjoyable but gets a bit wacky.
The Terror - This was a very cool book. Loved the format.
The City and The City - This was a hard read for me at first but I got engrossed in how bizarre it was at points.
Perdido Street Station & The Scar - These were also a tricky read for me personally (I'm dumb). Mainly because I struggle to concentrate whilst reading sometimes and the weird as fuck names and concepts threw me off. But I'm really glad I stuck with it. The world building and concepts are incredible.

Also on book 8 of WOT. Was struggling to keep going on the last couple of books, I was getting tired of having a detailed description of what people were wearing all the time.

If you like science fiction and haven't read the Dune series yet, then you are making a mistake.

It looks like we gave a lot of book commonality. I've also read those China Melville books. I wasn't as wowed by Perdido Street Station as I was The City and the City.

To weigh in on WOT, you are basically prime SLOG. WOT is at it's most tedious from books 8-10. Realistically best to keep this in mind and just practice speeding thru dull chapters and characters (cough Elayne chunks). It picks a decent amount in book 11 and then is class for all Brandon Sanderson books. Also the prequel is really good so if you haven't already read that, I'd recommend.

For me, I've most recently read On Such a Full sea which was good but I wouldn't recommend it other stuff. It is compared to Kazuo Ishiguro who I think clears it. I would however recommend Barney's Version. I've described it as a drunken version of the World According to Garp, not as purely wholesome but still touching and paints a picture of a character that one is taken with. I would also wholeheartedly second the Perfume recommendation that I saw elsewhere in this thread.