What Are You Reading?

Glebee · 24-09-2025 06:57PM

I know it's not sci fi which is my goto, but have been reading more and more historical fiction. Currently reading Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris, 10/10, fantastic read. Would make a great movie.

Thargor · 24-09-2025 08:09PM

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Yeah loved that one read it recently and couldnt put it down.

For me the best historical fiction is Patrick O'Brians Aubrey-Marturin series, the Master and Commander film was based on them, 20 books and they're absolutely incredible, no idea why Sharpe gets all the love, these are pure genius and actually hilarious in places aswell.

Ken Follet has a new one set amongst the people who built Stonehenge if you liked The Pillars of the Earth and his other stuff.

smacl · 25-09-2025 07:38AM

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I find a lot of the GGK stuff borders on historical fiction and is great fun. I also dip into actual history here and there and have read quite a few books on the boxer rebellion and the Sudan campaigns. Well written, they can be very entertaining and reading different authors perspectives on the same event can be strangely compulsive, particularly where they disagree.

Xofpod · 06-10-2025 10:14AM

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Read and enjoyed it. Not exactly what I was expecting - more Terry Pratchett than Game of Thrones, albeit with the body count of the latter. Still, settled my mind on Joe Abercrombie and I'll definitely pick up the First Law books.

smacl · 17-10-2025 07:15AM

Finished the Maddadam trilogy on audible which I thoroughly enjoyed. The last book, Maddadam, brought the other two together very well in plot terms and had plenty going on. Staying with Margaret Atwood, I tried the Penelopiad, which covers the life of Penople, Odysseus of the Illiad's wife. Ok but nothing special, and I personally preferred Circe by Madeline Miller which is similar in many ways. Also read Rocannon's World and The Word for World is Forest, both part of Ursula Le Guin's Hainish cycle and for me both more fun (and shorter!) than The Left Hand of Darkness in the same series. Rocannon's World is a great mix of fantasy and sci-fi while The Word for World is Forest has a feel of Avatar (the Jame's Cameron movies) about it.

Currently reading The House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the sequel to The City of Last Chances which I loved and found quite a bit more enjoyable than Service Model.

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