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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 06 (discuss.online)
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Welcome to year's first weekly thread! How are you all doing? And what are you book / reading related resolutions for this year?

I started Ultra-processed Food by Chris van Tulleken

Just started it, but looks like an interesting read. It's about the ultra-processed food we eat these days.

Also skimming through Ryder Caroll's The Bullet Journal Method. Read this last year (or was that year before that?) and wanted to check something but decided to skim through most of it.

Still reading The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, 3rd book in the 2nd era of Mistborn. It was going great but didn't get to read much last week or so, should be getting back to it now.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It has been a little while since I replied but over Christmas I finished the final (currently) Deathlands book, number 155.

All in all I have really enjoyed pretty much all the books. There have been ups and downs in the writing and quality in places but none of it is bad and kept me coming back for more. I love the setting and the lore behind it all but the characters were definitely growing a little tired for me. I think this is more because of how I have listened to them all almost back to back.

This helps moving on to after Deathlands as I went straight into "Trader" which is set prior to the Deathlands books and follows the main character for Deathlands' mentor in his early days of starting out.

I'm at the end of book 2 and it is great. It is more of the same setting and lore and it ties into the timeline with that character in common but it is following a whole new set of characters and that has freshened up my main issue with Deathlands.

How are you finding the second era of Mistborn. I absolutely love the first but have only listened to the first 2 books of the second era and I was too distracted whilst doing so that I didn't really absorb it properly.

I keep meaning to go back and do the second era, at least, again if not the first as well!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Era of Deathlands is over! Good luck with Trader, but it's such a small series, specially compared to Deathlands, you are going to finish it in no time.

    Mistborn Era 2 is fine. I am not a big fan of industrial era in magical worlds. The setting of technology getting more powerful than magic feels a bit sad to me. Other than that the books feel better than the first ones. Will have to complete this and read the 4th and the final book in 2nd era to fully make up my mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It is, although I'll pick up any new ones as they get released. I'm already near the end of the third trader book so it is pretty much done already, then I have 50 outlanders books cued up which is the other spin off xD

    Yeh that is fair enough and I think maybe I would have similar feelings although I still want to go back and read through. I'm actually looking forward to the third era books more and I think the mixture of magic and high technology could be interesting but we have a long ass wait to see any of that come to fruition for sure!

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