What are you reading right now?

Just finished The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman. It was complete shit. I don't mind unlikeable asshole casts and narrators, so long as they're actually funny, but the whole story was pathetic and annoying. Doesn't help that so many of the reviews go on about it being a comedy when it's not funny, nor does it help that they're generalizing it as if this is applicable to men and women everywhere while dating.

The viewpoint character Nathaniel is some horrifying cross between a PUA, an SJW, a pretentious hipster, and a Marxist. His best friend Jason is speaks like a eugenisist at one point and is a total dick, too. The women are all hysterical, often on the verge of tears, and manipulative. Nearly everyone is self-absorbed and everyone is holier than thou. It's like some insane screed written by some horrifying cross between a radical feminist and a MGTOW.
 
I'm reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner, about the founding of id Software and Johns Romero and Carmack and their dueling egos. I'm currently up to the part where Romero announces Daikatana.
 
I got myself invited to a book club with a bunch of lawyers next week. We're going to discuss Lawrence Lessig's Code v2.
 
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I'm reading The Between by Tananarive Due.
I think it's an excellent blend of drama, suspense, and horror.
 
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Creepiest book I've ever read.
 
Just a few collected books from the Green Lantern Corps comics. Guy Gardner is more likeable than I would've originally though. All that's left for me to check out is Emerald Eclipse.

Also, gratuitous mooning.
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Not the creepiest I've personally read, but the narrator/main character certainly is an awful girl.
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Awful, but fascinating. That's the creepy part of it for me: how she can go from basically a pixie to dark and then back over the course of a scene. Probably the only book that came close in that regard for me was The Killer Inside Me, narrated by a sociopath.
 
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I'm a couple chapters into Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. So far it's really weird, but I'm enjoying it.
 
Gun Machine is really good. I thought it was a lot better than Crooked Little Vein (and I can't wait for Normal).

Also, finishing up The Skin Gods, the second book in the Byrne and Balzano series by Richard Montanari. Also reading the XCOM 2 prequel novel because :autism:.
 
I'm reading The Birthgrave self described by the author as "feminist dark fantasy." It's actually shockingly good except that the author has a bit of an odd fixation on menstruation. I actually had to check if the author was a guy or not because the MC seems to get her period about every two days and that's not how a menstrual cycle works.
 
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Lady Chatterley's Lover. Had meant to read it years back, never got round to it. It's on one of my required reading lists for university.
 
Finished Code v2 but the meeting got canceled lol. Just finished up PKD's Now Wait for Last Year. It's kinda forgettable.

Started Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and its Discontents, nothing in my fiction backlog really grabs me right now so I might order another China Mieville book.
 
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Halfway through Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (and have been for about a year now, if I'm being honest). It's good, bit confusing, sort of long-winded at times, but mostly interesting.

Finished Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) over the summer, couldn't put it down. Highly recommend it, it's a classic for good reason, and not because it's difficult to slog through.

For less esoteric bullshit/an easier read, Child 44 is a good crime thriller loosely based on the Chikatilo murders (i.e. different take on the Donald Sutherland movie Citizen X) with bonus Stalinism and meth use. Skip the movie (unless you enjoy shitty Russian accents as much as I do).
 
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Currently reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. It and it's two sequels Green Mars and Blue Mars are all about the more socio-political aspects of extraterrestrial colonisation, which in this case would (obviously) be of Mars. It's kind of cool in that it doesn't make itself seem like the pulpy kind of science fiction you would expect, but starting out it's kind of dry, except in the first section when you get to the description of space sex and how everyone en route to Mars is forming a closed-in society where every man fucks every woman and vice versa.
 
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