Just finished Daemon by Daniel Suarez a week ago. Currently reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
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Just finished the robot series by Isaac Asimov, read the whole thing as per his reading order, 15 books including the robot, empire and foundation novels. The robot novels I really enjoyed, the foundation ones were good too but the empire novels a bit lacking for me.
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Many good reads mentioned in this thread. As for some of my personal favourite series that haven't been mentioned:
The Takeshi Kovacs Series - If you like cyperpunk/Blade Runner/sci-fi noir. This is the series for you.
The Kingkiller Chronicles - A fantastic fantasy series which tells the tale of the famous adventurer, musician, scholar and magician Kvothe. Fantastic read.
Elantris - A stand-alone novel from Mistborn author Brandon Sanderson. It's about a city full of outcast former god-like beings who have lost their powers and status who cannot die, and about the people who resent them and want them gone.
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I recently finished Lawrence Freedman's Strategy: A History. Freedman comes from the intellectual tradition of Micheal Howard and Liddell-Hart and therefore doesn't know Clausewitz, and instead works from various strawmen. This despite Micheal Howard being a co-preparator of the best English-language translation of On War, and Freedman being his closest protege. Despite this, the work is still quite good as befits the world's leading scholar of war studies. The first half is a compelling read. The first part of the second half is spotty, where Freedman covers the employment of strategy in politics. He seemingly abandons his own definition of strategy and instead discusses political platforms instead of a political and ideological calculus for action. But this is redeemed by his stellar discussion of business strategy, and his humorous mocking of attempts to incorporate military theorists into business. 8/10, worth reading.
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I just finished Doomsday Book by Connie Willis which is a hard science-fiction/historical-fiction novel involving a historian that travels back to the 14th century.
Before that I read The Wild by David Zindell which is the third book in a series of four excellent hard science-fiction novels set in the far future. I'm currently waiting for the final book in the series, The War in Heaven, to arrive from Amazon.
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Haven't read all that much lately, but currently reading 'I am a Cat' from Natsume Soseki and enjoying its view on society and satirical humor so far. Also have The Tale of Genji in the planning for after that, but that's probably going to take a while to finish reading.
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As for my favourites, those would be Dazai's No Longer Human and Soseki's Kokoro, really liked both of those immensely and reread them multiple times each. Dazai's The Setting Sun was also really good, but I'll have to read it again to get a better view on how it stands in comparison to the other two.
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I am a cat added to my to read list, thanks. The tale of genji is, well, the tale of genji, you will like it.
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I imported a deluxe non-abridged version with more than 1000 pages of goodness (not Genji, cause he dies, spoilers in the introduction ;p) so I'm sure I will enjoy reading that. I may start reading The Pillow Book first though, as that one looks quite good too and is a tad smaller in terms of pages. But I am a Cat is great, definitely had to laugh out loud sometimes and that says something for me when a book or movie does that!
If you have any other great Japanese (or Chinese for that matter) classics, I would definitely be interested to hear, I've read and bought a few but I'm sure there are many missing.
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What you can do is check unis, like oxford, cambridge, the SOAS in London, and find their reading lists for given subjects ( east asian studies too, not just language classes ). I found a bunch of excellent books on a thousand different subjects this way, plus they may have useful info on particular editions and translations. Embassies and cultural centers sometimes have reading lists too.
I can recommend you the Kojiki ( get the philipi translation ), the gossamer years, the autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, chushingura, the poetic memoirs of laidy daibu, congessions of lady nijo, musui story... its mainly non fiction, but i read mainly non fiction... the greatest chinese classic might be the journey to the west, i don't remember what translation is the best atm ( and of course it depends if you prefer to get the original flow or the words meaning ).
After if you are interested not just in such classics but in the countries themselves i can recommend more easely history and geopolical/economical books ( starting with Reischauer )
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Thanks for that list and I will definitely check out some universities their list; now to see which books I can get my hands on (easily).
E: And non-fiction is fine indeed, thought something like No Longer Human's semi-autobiographical nature is also interesting to read.
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I'm currently reading The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. About 150 pages in and I already love it more than Snow Crash. You can really feel Stephenson's development as a writer; the character development is stellar. I've been buzzing about nano and bio tech all week.
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Assassin's Creed's Graphic Novel's 2nd book. I need to read the 3rd, but I'm currectly reading the Assassin's Creed III book.
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I'm reading Valerio Evangelisti's books (Nicholas Eymerich the inquisitor), they are not bad at all. After that I'll probably read again something from Dan Simmons, because I love that (Hyperion / Endymion, Ilium / Olympos, Carrion Comfort...).
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My favourite book is Ritus and Sanctum by Marcus Heitz. It is about werewolfs in 16th in France and in 20th. Is very dark, bloodly and funny.
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I read a lot of books, it is good to have a break from games once in a while :) I love sci-fi and am currently reading The Synchronicity War series (on book three of four). Before that I read The Expanse books which Syfy are turning into a TV series.
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I know, Books are not that common for gamers, but anyway, what books did you recently read, which are your favourites and such.
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