Topic: Nintendo Life Book Club

King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes. Excellent so far

just started reading Hunters of Dune the other day. so far its decent. kind of better than Heretics and Chapterhouse but not totally better.

still cant tell who's the good guys and who the bad guys are supposed to be

Have been making more of an effort to read the past 2-3 years, try to read 12 in a year varying between fiction and non-fiction so might start lurking here looking for recommendations!

Recently I generally veer towards fantasy and my main series has been Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive which I'm now up-to-date with so exploring a few others. Read some Gabrielle Zevin, Fonda Lee, Joe Abercrombie and a couple of Yahtzee Croshaw's in the past year or so. I was also a fan of Scott Lynch's Gentleman B*stard books but I've kinda lost hope of the next one coming since it's been over 10 years...

I've got some on my Kindle app on the phone (usually non-fiction/self-help stuff) but I generally prefer physical books and visiting small bookstores. What are folks' preferences? Physical or eBooks?

Ah right. I finished The Goblet of Fire and started The Order of the Phoenix. Globlet of Fire was still nice and fun for the most part.

I believe this is the point in the story where things get somewhat heavier. Beginning with the fact Harry is a bit of an angsty brat right off the start and the ministry just went full-on muggle levels of corrupt.

It’s also the longest book in the series by a long shot. Welp.

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Edit: I’m now done with Order of the Phoenix, and Half Blood Prince as well. These are going by fast- which surprises me since they’re not that short.

Order of the Phoenix remains the heaviest one so far… with the unmeasured teen angst, feelings of injustice, and overall sadness.

Half Blood Prince was somewhat of a return to the feeling of the previous entries… Harry is less of a brat and most of the miasma of dread is put in the background to make room for some extra funny moments, teenage romance plot lines, and private exposition sessions with Dumbledore.

Of course I know the major plot points, so the big plot twist wasn’t quite as impactful as I’m sure it would, had I read it before watching the movies, but still… even with that, the sixth book is a breezier read nonetheless (compared to book five).

Now I’ll probably slow down and pace myself to read Deathly Hallows without binge reading it.

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Welp I went and binge read the final book as well. Now I’m a little sad because these were supposed to last me a good portion of the year… but hey I suppose that means I liked them.

i just started gravity's rainbow

I think the best thing to do with that book is not to try and follow the plot. It's incredible, but very very mad.

i read the first 250-something pages a few years back but got to a point where i paused mid-sentence realizing 'i havent absorbed anything in like ten chapters' and put it down. pynchon's flow is immaculate though. the first 50 pages go by like a breeze

I'm revisiting the Amulet graphic novels by Kazu Kibuishi right now. I haven't been able to get my hands on book 9 yet because it just came out, but I am super excited to read it!

@Mallow9623 WAIT BOOK NINE IS OUT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS YASSSSSSS

Yessir! It's called Waverider

In honor of the late Akira Toriyama, I picked up a three-in-one of the first three volumes of the original "Dragon Ball" at Barnes & Noble.

Just started Finnegan’s Wake. I don’t know why, I hate stream of consciousness as a narrative device (seriously william faulkner scarred me for life) but whew this is horrible.

@Ryu_Niiyama is that Benji's sections in The Sound and the Fury?

I've not read Finnegan's Wake, but Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are both incredible.

I bought the complete works of Katherine Mansfield a little while ago, so am going to get stuck into that, as well as getting further into Journey to the East by Hesse

Just got Robert E. Howard horror stories book and collected works of Ambrose Bierce

@Rambler Yep. Sound and the Fury almost killed my love for reading. I still can’t read it a third time to this day.

I am reading a graphic novel called "Marble Season". It is about the life of the 60s Latino childen in the US. Spanish speaking people from the different countries are very diverse. Thus Mexican, European, Colombian, Cuban and Argentine people have bigger problems Understanding each other than British and American people have.

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

I've been re-listening to the Stormlight Archive books by Brandon Sanderson, as Stormlight Book 5 is coming out later this year. Currently on Oathbringer. About 2 years ago I was encouraged to get into the Cosmere and started with the Mistorn books, and have since read/listened to everything that is in the Cosmere collection. All are excellent.

finished the last pages of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters earlier tonight.

this month I'm going to be busy with Stephen King's Needful Things which I still have for paperback along with reading Wheel of Time Book 9 for the first time