Topic: The off-topic Topic

[sgore]

I haven't played Cuphead, but if at least one villain or attack move isn't named "The Cup Holder" I will be severely disappointed.

[emmet]

hey sgore how was your day?

[sgore]

It is still happening!
I just got to work.
I work into late times and I just got there to start doing it.

Thank you for asking!

How was yours?

[emmet]

it was alright. i dont work on weekends so i basically just sat around reading, watching tv, and suffering mild parental passive-aggression

[sgore]

What are you reading?!
!?
I am always interested in whatever anyone is reading?!
!?

[Haseri]

Well, I just finished reading Paradise Lost, which took me the better part of 3 months (mostly because I went on a working holiday for a month). So I wanted to pick up some light reading. But nowhere had the next Star Wars book I need to read, Dark Disciple.

So I picked up To Kill A Mockingbird, because I've never read it, and I'm almost done with it.

[emmet]

i'm reading 2 (well, like 8, going back three years, but...) books at the moment

homo deus (which i believe sam also read), which is a book about anthropology and the future of humans

la belle sauvage, which, admittedly, is kind of for kids - it's the first book of a new trilogy in the setting of the his dark materials trilogy (the northern lights/golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass)

[sgore]

All neat!
I'm reading Infinite Jest.
It's been a while since I started, and I've read some other things in-between, but I'm about halfway through, but I'm enjoying it!

[emmet]

I got about a third of the way into it before I got tired of constantly going and finding the right footnote.

I may try again on an ebook version where I can just click hyperlinks, though.

[Krakow Sam]

La Belle Sauvage is for ""Young Adults"" and I guess also adults. It has more statutory rape and peril than is typical for a kids book.

[Rysworld]

I've been rereading J.C. McCrae's Worm, a superhero serial novel, in preparation to begin reading its sequel Ward.

If you're looking for something very long, very dark, with a living and breathing world that feels as if it extends beyond what you see on the page, I recommend it. It's pretty good.

I've also been reading the author's other works, Pact and Twig. Pact is an urban fantasy. Twig is story where instead of machinery and physics, science moved in the direction of biology and genetics. It follows a group of young experimental weapons made from children or built to look like it.

The author is pretty good at writing about people and, interestingly, small-unit tactics. It makes for fun reading.

[Inkling]

Been meaning to go back and read Worm for a while now, I think I read the first chapter.

[martyk]

Yeah, I keep hearing good things about it, and it sounds right up my alley, but I haven't had the time to read anything in a long time.

[Neoadept]

It's a solid setting with a decent story.  Gets a lot of mileage out of varied powers and creative uses of them.

Just be aware that, as many people call it "gritty and realistic", it's mostly the former.  It's a story about bad things happening and the survivors moving on more than it is a dissection of the genre.

[Plank of Wood]

Cibola Burn is gr8