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Almost done listening to book five of Dungeon Crawler Carl with my wife; I’d read the first seven previously and enough friends talked about the series that she wanted to check it out. I like the print books but man the audio books are next level.
My wife recently expressed interest in DCC, not even to me, just saw it in our Amazon recent searches, and she's like yeah, heard of this recently. Last book we read together was Blood Meridien, and let me tell you, not a good partner read, so hoping DCC can be a better one. It's been a number of years since we read together.
It is a fantastic joint listen, I hope it gets you both reading together again!
How do you read books together? Do you mean that one person reads aloud or something else?
Ha, we did for a Blood Meridien, which is part of why it was awful and didn't last long. But no, I mean read contemporaneous with one another, and we can chat about it.
Ah, I see. That sounds good, wish I could do that with my partner, but she doesn't like the type of books that I read. However, the books she reads are somewhat interesting to me, but I am a slow reader while she's a very fast one, so it wouldn't work for two reasons — one is that she'd have to wait for me to catch up and the other is that I get the feeling of spending time reading something that I wouldn't normally choose and the awareness of the books that I actually want to read sitting there and waiting for me. :) However, maybe if we did that with 1 or 2 books a year... I don't really have anyone to talk to about books because most people around me don't read :(
Ha, we are in a similar boat, you and I, although my wife has shown me some books (namely Blake Crouch) that I found to be very interesting and easy (not boring) reads. But she reads her stuff and I read fantasy and sci-fi, and that's fine, we read next to each other in bed, so we're "spending time" together or something like that, and she'll tell me about what she's reading.
I don't really have anyone I read new stuff with, and so that's why I'm here, to see if anyone's reading what I'm reading. The answer is ... No!
I liked Crouch's "Dark Matter", but it's also sf. I used to only read fantasy, but have branched into other genres :)
McCarthy is one of my favorite authors because of his Border Trilogy.