What are you reading Wednesday?

[frenzy]

What have you finished reading?

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (Author) - Its already in a little free library, far far away from me. The truth is, whenever they are back in the gunslingers world, i found it relatively interesting or compelling. But King even acknowledges that his caricature of 'Detta is racist, but never does anything with it, which makes it even more racist imho. Also: i'm just tired of ableist garbage where schizophrenic people are somehow dangerous/evil.

What are you currently reading?


Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Author) - This book is ... really dense. But its interesting. Its about how Octopuses evolved and, like, are smart and cool and stuff. However, the "deep origins of consciousness" is pretty misleading. Play and curiosity isn't exactly sentience. And the author acknowledges that... but then why the subtitle?

Comments

[ioplokon]

Worth noting that titles are often the realm of editorial/publishing/marketing, so you often get these mismatches. Less with books than articles, but it does still happen. Also just seems fun to read about an octopus.

[frenzy]

I hadn't thought about that. Good to know!

[katiedid717]

The Dark Tower series is one of my favorites. Detta/Odetta is super caricature in Drawing of the Three, but she's a really interesting character in the remaining books of the series. If I recall correctly, I think DotT was written around the same time that King wrote "The Dark Half," which is another story about an evil alter ego/second identity - some of the tropes that really didn't work with Detta Walker played out was better in that book.

[frenzy]

Yeah I've been told that a lot of the books can be hit or miss, but the over-arching story is interesting. Maybe I'll give the third book a try but I have a lot of stuff on my to-read shelves before I get to that point.

[katiedid717]

The Wastelands might be my favorite book in the series. I really need to reread this now ha