Rayman Pirate-Community

As the title suggests, since we have a music and a game thread (and I think also a movies thread as well), I thought it could be nice to have one for books. Yes, I'm a very big fan of books, always was, always will be Basically, just write down the title of the book, or a short a description, or if you are enjoying it or not really.

To be honest I'm not really reading anything lately, as I'm too tired in the evenings - the time when I used to read - so instead I started listening to audiobooks. I've already finished Kizumonogatari and the first book of Bakemonogatari - stellar voice acting! Seriously, even if the story wasn't anything I'm interested in, I would still listen to it just for the VAs.

Right now I'm listening to "Turtles All The Way Down" by John Green (author of Papertowns, what I've yet to read, but is one of, if not my favourite movie of all time). And while this one is more of a traditional audiobook, as it doesn't have multiple VAs, only one person reading the whole thing, it's super good. I really love it. The story, the characters, how I can relate to Aza and - some of - her daily struggles! To think that just a few years ago I would've said this book (or anything by Green) was boring, as it doesn't have high-fantasy or sci-fi stuff... Times sure change. Well anyways, I'll have to make sure to pick up an English, a Hungarian and preferably also a German version - English to read what I'm listening to, Hungarian to see how good the translation is, and German, to practice my reading ability in it. I hope, by next summer I'll be able to read it in Swedish as well, but for now that's just a dream.

We have this one that died in 2014, and this one, which unfortunately suffered a similar fate in 2018. If this one picks up then I guess it can be merged.

Oh, so that's why I wasn't able to find one, because they were all dead... Well, I sure hope this one won't die, but I don't have high hopes given the situation of those two

I've been doing most of my reading online lately since I'm mainly learning tech related stuff a lot. I would like to read L'Histoire de Rayman, but first I'd need to buy it, then learn French.

Curiously, I was the last poster in the 2018 one. I guess it got buried after all the game threads started taking priority back then.

Anyways, I loved reading books as a kid. These days though I do most of my reading online. Recently I started reading the Artemis Fowl series again for nostalgia. And bc I can't seem to find my old books. Still as great as I remember though.

And yes I'd love to read L'Histoire de Rayman too someday, but I have to do the same things as Steo will have to do.

I remember reading a Harry Potter book as a kid, but for some reason I wasn't that into novels. I always preferred to read something that could make me learn, but then I'm so interested in the Rayman series that I'd love to be able to read that book.

I remember, I didn't read much during the last year at college, only books that we needed to - economics stuff, mostly boring, but if I want to do this for a living, might as well go all out, and learn what I can (too bad I only realized it during the last semester, and not from the start, now I'll have to get really good grades in the last year that's coming up to have chance at getting accepted into one of the top 3 Economics universities in the country...) . Only after I finished with my finals did I start reading again. I read the next book in the Grimgar series (which I got hooked on last summer while working in the States - only 2 more books are released as of writing this, that I haven't read) in just 2 days, finished "Kafka On The Shore" by Murakami, who is by far my favourite author, and not long after that I've found my current summer job, which made me switch to audiobooks for the time being, as I have to wake up early...

Ah, also, yesterday I've started reading Papertowns, as I'll have a holiday break for two weeks, and I'll have enough time to read some more

Steo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:29 pm I would like to read L'Histoire de Rayman, but first I'd need to buy it, then learn French.

The Jonster wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:15 pm And yes I'd love to read L'Histoire de Rayman too someday, but I have to do the same things as Steo will have to do.

Me three, it'd be nice to read it, alas I don't think I'll be able to do so in the near future, there are languages that I find more important right now than French, no matter how much I'd like to learn it.

Steo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:48 am We have this one that died in 2014, and this one, which unfortunately suffered a similar fate in 2018. If this one picks up then I guess it can be merged.

I found it strange that we seemed to need a new topic for this all right, since we have the "games you're playing" thread. Still, it's slightly different, since this one's about books you're reading "now", whereas the others were also about ones you might have read "lately".

All right, enough hair-splitting. Unfortunately I'm not reading anything at the moment. I think the last novel I read was Wuthering Heights, before lockdown, which I think is comparable to a Tarantino film, albeit in terms of emotional abuse and manipulation rather than physical violence.

Otherwise, there are a couple of Margaret Atwood books on the shelf that I'd like to open one of these days, since I read the Handmaid's Tale and the Testaments in January and found them largely unputdownable (especially the latter).

I read some more Borges recently, it had been a long time!

Not a big reader myself, however everytime I go with my family outside for the weekend I bring with me some action, thriller or horror book to read.
I'm actually reading Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said".
Big fan of Stephen King.