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Currently reading Tom Clancy - Debt of Honour, although I'm struggling to keep motivated as the writing is so damn small with tiny line spacing!

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[โ€“] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My big read is Finnegans Wake - which I am reading through the year along with others on a reddit sub - obout the only thing that keeps me there at the moment. It continues to be fascinatingly incomprehensible.

As well as that I am reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, which has some thoughtful worldbuilding and an intriguing plot.

I am also reading through a series of Doctor Who novels from the '90s - the 'wilderness years' - when the novels became a lot more interesting and experimental, with little requirement for accessibility for mainstream audiences any more. Death and Diplomacy at the moment, which has some good character beat for the Doctor, but is a bit slow overall and I am losing momentum.

And I am reading one of Robert Brightwell's Flashman prequels Flashman and Madison's War - which, although still entertaining, is the weakest and most disjointed of this series so far. The author had not found a particularly strong thread to overcome the scattered and episodic nature of the historical event it features.

I am also dipping into a collection of Neil Munro's Para Handy tales from time to time, which are not exactly demanding.

[โ€“] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Children of Time is an amazing book. The way it tracks the parallel development of two societies in different environments is brilliant. Managing to make the non-human one believable and relatable was a touch.