Reading is probably at this point a top 3 form of entertainment.

[ViShawn]

Do y’all pick up books just to see what the argument is against your belief?

Yes

 

[ViShawn]

I got like 9 new books I ain't read. Even got a book light. I keep saying I'll start reading as my wind down time.

There's no problem with that. I purchase books i intend on reading. It's a journey and having those books remind you that you're still on that journey.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Yeah I do

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/s/bWIPS4x35H

You pay amazon to license you the books. At any time they can just revoke your license and you won't access anything on the kindle.

Each kindle has DRM restrictions

 

[mbewane]

I'm always reading 2 or 3 books at the same time. I just finished Caleb Azuma Nelson's "Small Worlds", great novel that might even be better than his first. I alternate with some book about art or about litterature, then some poetry, then some essay...so much quality out there. I've been digging in the crates a lot these past years, buying second-hand has really helped expand my horizon.

 

[re'up]

gimme your top 5 books that dropped this year

a personal list, that hit me the hardest

1. Don't Be A Stranger (Fiction)

A woman's characterization of a long term sexual relationship, I was too close to the subject matter and the it was like to quote the book itself "like licking honey from the razor blade"

2. The Winner (Fiction)

Class based satire about a kinda loser younger tennis pro having an affair with a wealthy older woman, and the consequences in a wealthy community. Hilarious. Tense.

3. The Devil's Best Trick (Non fiction)

Investigative journalists account of looking for evil and tracking the existence and origins of the Devil in the world. Goes from exorcisms in Borsnia, seeing the Devil in Venice, a town in Mexico where witches are real and they do ritual sacrifice ceremonies to worship the devil. Murders in rural Texas connected to satanism. It's a fukking wild read.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

a personal list, that hit me the hardest

1. Don't Be A Stranger (Fiction)

A woman's characterization of a long term sexual relationship, I was too close to the subject matter and the it was like to quote the book itself "like licking honey from the razor blade"

2. The Winner (Fiction)

Class based satire about a kinda loser younger tennis pro having an affair with a wealthy older woman, and the consequences in a wealthy community. Hilarious. Tense.

3. The Devil's Best Trick (Non fiction)

Investigative journalists account of looking for evil and tracking the existence and origins of the Devil in the world. Goes from exorcisms in Borsnia, seeing the Devil in Venice, a town in Mexico where witches are real and they do ritual sacrifice ceremonies to worship the devil. Murders in rural Texas connected to satanism. It's a fukking wild read.

I should be reading more fiction but I grabbed The Devil's Best Trick off Libgen hella quick lol. will read this weekend

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I read a lot, like 40 something this year, can post up a list, only counting anything new, no rereads. Almost all 2024 books.

Drop your current reads here

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/books-what-are-you-reading-official-book-thread.149741/

The thread would probably be better suited here if it was stickied

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Reading is my number 1 form of entertainment and has been since I was a child. It allows me to escape the mundainity of our existence and experience different ideologies, worlds, and timeperiods. I like reading so much that even the video games I like to play the most, MUDs, are text based having no graphics beyond ascii figures at most.

It is also why I consider reading comprehension to be one of the most important skills a person should have, opening the door to many possibilities. Unfortunately, many school systems are failing our children in this regard, and it shows up in other aspects of our community.

We can thank No Child Left Behind for that. I believe Lavar Burton said that act led to the cancellation of Reading Rainbow

 

[re'up]

I have read some credible pieces that reading is down everywhere, and teenagers and even well educated younger students can barely read complete books.

Here's some others I read:

Colored Television by Danzy Senza, who is Percivial Everett's wife

Very subtle and nuanced satire/true story of Hollywood for a mixed/black author trying to break into film

Entitlement by Ruam Alam

Younger black woman interns at a billionaires charitable foundation and begins to change/lose her sense of self, after becoming closer to the billionaire

The Rent Collectors 2024 (non fiction)

Analysis of a murder by the 18th St gang in Los Angeles in 2007, that set off a chain of other killings and how it impacted a city, a community, a gang, and the kid who pulled the trigger.

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

Fictionalized memoir of his time as a young Obama staffer in the lead up to the 2008 election, details his life on the trail, fund raising commitees, partying in LA with Quincy Jones daughter, and Martha's Vineyard black wealthy donors

Filterworld (non fiction)

About the world of algorithims in the 21st century, how they shape our lives from dating to coffee shops, to streaming apps

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

a personal list, that hit me the hardest

1. Don't Be A Stranger (Fiction)

A woman's characterization of a long term sexual relationship, I was too close to the subject matter and the it was like to quote the book itself "like licking honey from the razor blade"

2. The Winner (Fiction)

Class based satire about a kinda loser younger tennis pro having an affair with a wealthy older woman, and the consequences in a wealthy community. Hilarious. Tense.

3. The Devil's Best Trick (Non fiction)

Investigative journalists account of looking for evil and tracking the existence and origins of the Devil in the world. Goes from exorcisms in Borsnia, seeing the Devil in Venice, a town in Mexico where witches are real and they do ritual sacrificx in rural Texas connected to satanism. It's a fukking wild read.

a personal list, that hit me the hardest

1. Don't Be A Stranger (Fiction)

A woman's characterization of a long term sexual relationship, I was too close to the subject matter and the it was like to quote the book itself "like licking honey from the razor blade"

2. The Winner (Fiction)

Class based satire about a kinda loser younger tennis pro having an affair with a wealthy older woman, and the consequences in a wealthy community. Hilarious. Tense.

3. The Devil's Best Trick (Non fiction)

Investigative journalists account of looking for evil and tracking the existence and origins of the Devil in the world. Goes from exorcisms in Borsnia, seeing the Devil in Venice, a town in Mexico where witches are real and they do ritual sacrifice ceremonies to worship the devil. Murders in rural Texas connected to satanism. It's a fukking wild read.

Sounds like the premise of God is a Bullet... I think that is the name of it... it starres Jaime Foxx and revolved around a satanic muderous cult in the Southwest

 

[Starman]

A nikka tired of hiding my Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy and Xenogenesis when people come over

Let them see. Especially the bolded.

Also, subscription based entertainment is a choice. I've bought cds, Blu-rays, and paperback books in the last year.

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

got like 60 books on my kindle paperwhite

Nah Scarf. You gotta get w/ these tangibles, family

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

I asked someone at work do they read the news

A woman replied and says she gets her news from The Shaderoom

Internally I was like

That’s crazy she considers that actual news

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

When we go out shopping, the kids always wanna go to the bookstore.

We don't idolize the king Vons and NBA Youngboys around here

Ironic tho. Ain’t it.

 

[maxamusa]

I read but honestly it feels like an obligation; not entertainment