Finished:

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman It was a good book. Fizzled out a little towards the end and, as I was expecting, nothing was explained really. But that's okay. I still enjoyed myself and liked the world. I just wish I could've seen a bit more of it.

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Wow. This was absolutely fantastic. My only criticism is sometimes Neal could get a little in the weeds with the really technical details, but other than that, this was excellent. Thumbs up. And now I get to go find new books by this guy!

Started:

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullaly It's pretty adorable. They're adorable.

Finished A Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss (read The Name of the Wind the week before). Now I'm among the large group of people desperately awaiting the final book in the trilogy!

Still debating what to start next. I'm leaning towards starting both From Here to Paris, by Cris Hammond (friend recommendation) and Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson.

The Rothfuss books above were my first ever foray into fantasy. Any other recommendations would be welcome!

This week I started reading Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson.

It's been a few months since I read The Rise and Fall of DODO, and while I really enjoyed it, I've felt somewhat intimidated to read any of his other work. His books are long and, as I've been told, apparently dense. But finding myself itching for some summer scifi reading, I finally picked up Seveneves and I have to say I'm hooked. I'm a little shy of the halfway point (about 350-375 pages in) and I'm really digging the balance between story and science, the precision and detail in Stephenson's work and how carefully he portrays this potential future, where the moon is destroyed and, as a result, humanity must take to the stars in order to survive. I've heard less than stellar (no pun intended) things about the third act, so I'm hoping for the best, but I'm glad I finally took the jump and probably won't wait very long to jump into some of his other work after I'm done with this (although it's going to take me a couple more weeks!).

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

I finally finished Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Honestly it was a brillant piece of literature and I am sad it's done. I am always looking for a science fiction piece that makes me think and holds me captive and this was definitely it. I am now on the hunt for something new....I have a large stack of to-read on my nightstand and believe for the moment I will re-read the Red Rising series again so I can start the 4th book which I have yet to do. Always accepting recommendations.

Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

Just finished Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson. A real tour de force of science and humanity. And it's just realistic enough honestly scare me.

Seven Eves, by Neal Stephenson. Started reading this during the christmas holiday, but never got enough time to finish is. But I am very glad I did. the book is very science fiction but in a realistic way. The book is very long and contains two parts, at first it was difficult getting into the second part, but it grips you with intrigue before you can piece all the connections to the first part. It did give me some nice physics and social problems to think about, which is something I look for in books.

Just started Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson.

And i have a question, is there anything i need to know before advancing any further ? any strategies to better understand the story ? just spooked because it looks ... intimidating

Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

Finished Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson. Took me a while to get into it, but I did. Before this, I read the Kingkiller's Chronicles and I am loving this "worldbuilding" concept; I'd never read books like these before. I especially enjoyed futuristic worldbuilding in Seveneves and will be looking for similar books.

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Between the two Kingkiller's Chronicle books and Seveneves, I figured it's time to switch to nonfiction. I started Hillbilly Elegy, by JD Vance.

Great to hear, everyone I've shared it with has had similar feelings! If you loved it, worth checking out SevenEves, by Neal Stephenson, similar hard sci-fi that moves from relatively present day through hardship to a curious future. Well worth a read, couldn't put it down this end.

I finished The Fire Sermon, by Francesca Haig, very cool take on the post apocalyptic dystopia, but definitely a spin on that that I haven't seen before.

Also finished my 2nd read through of Armada, by Ernest Cline. First time I read it I was mostly thinking about how similar it felt to Ready Player One, but I think I gave it a little more time and started to enjoy it for itself a little more.

I'm kind of in a rut right now, I have a really old copy of Lemuria: Lost Continent of the Pacific, by W.S. Cerve, but it's really out there. Might do a second read through of Seveneves, by Neil Stephenson instead...

Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

The Heathen's Guide to World Religions: A Secular guide to the One True Faiths, by William Hopper Re-reading this book. I've been atheist all my life (not an exaggeration, I was raised in a secular household) and this book formed a lot of my conceptions about religion. I'm curious to see if I'll feel different about it now.

Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

I thought it was an interesting combination of hard near-future sci fi (first half of the book) and more fuzzy far future sci fi (latter half of the book).

It was entertaining enough, though the execution was a little lacking. Some flat characters and clunky exposition. I'd say I preferred the first half. The latter half plays it too safe from the perspective of extrapolating out what 5000 years from now would look like. Cordwainder Smith, this is not.

Die Trying, by Lee Child

What can I say- its a Jack Reacher novel. He comes, he smirks, he effortly swats away all comers. I've read the first 2 novels in this series, not sure if I'm going to read the series all the way through. I'll keep going for a few more at least.