too hot for science today.
time for a book
@cascode (fictionwise anyway)
@mhu2141ai i think i've mentioned before, but for a while i kinda lost my attention span for reading, it only came back through trying at it
@cascode Ah. I tried The Dispossessed a couple nights ago and wasn't a huge fan, but I'll probably finish it eventually... PKD stuff I have similarly mixed feelings about, but I did read A Scanner Darkly in one night when I couldn't sleep once, lol.
The authors that have clicked the best for me have been Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, and Kazuo Ishiguro, which are probably pretty boring choices. I guess I enjoyed Norwegian Wood as well kinda
@mhu2141ai i've only ever heard of one of them, i'll look them up sometime
i haven't read the dispossessed, but i always recommend "the word for world is forest" and "the lathe of heaven" as good leguin books. pkd was fun for me bc i was (and still am) a sucker for narratives that flip the rules around and slowly tear away reality, and his stories often do that. i mostly read pohl back in middle school, but from what i remember, his work stands out as more utopian than most
@cascode I'll give those two a shot then
@mhu2141ai i read a bunch of ursula k leguin over the past year, mostly novels in the hainish cycle. reading through some of iain banks' culture series right now.
in general, i sometimes read short story anthologies, but usually novels, and mostly science fiction. read a lot by fred pohl, pkd, and william gibson a while back. and i read very little during college, but i'm back at it now.