{"id":399,"date":"2014-07-08T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2019-06-11T03:33:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T07:33:48","slug":"these-books-i-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/these-books-i-read\/","title":{"rendered":"These books I read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to read a lot, back before the writing bug bit me last summer. I would devour books, one after the other in quick succession. Sometimes up to 200 or so books a year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I think I've read three books so far. \u00a0I'm currently reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13039884-existence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Existence<\/a> by David Brin, which I am greatly enjoying, but it's been weeks and I'm only at 10%. I think the only time I read is when I'm in the loo.<\/p>\n<p>What did I use to read, you ask? Well... let me tell you! Wait. It might be easier to tell you what I don't<em>\u00a0normally<\/em> read.<\/p>\n<p>First off, I don't really read romance. I've been told on many occasions that I don't have a romantic bone in my body. I don't know if that's true or not, but I\u00a0just don't get 99% of romance in non-romance books, so an entire book of romance would be lost on me, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I also don't read erotica. I have a book somewhere in my collection that is pure smut. I think it's called Pick Up\/Picked up, written in the 70's or 80's, and it's about a guy with a 12 inch cock. I found it in my grandmother's library when I was ten - I figure it belonged to my uncle when he was living there. Anyway... that was good for a few years, and so were the stories in my dad's Penthouses. But then I started <em>having<\/em> sex... and then the internet happened, and, well,\u00a0words just\u00a0didn't do it for me anymore.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Porn.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/baddaddytube.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Porn<\/a> does it for me. I'm very visual.)<\/p>\n<p>I don't read YA. Twilight is YA right? I know that Hunger Games is (...right?). I didn't really like either.\u00a0Though, I also have a hard time identifying with books written from a female perspective, and I think both of these were (...right? Sorry - \u00a0I really don't know\/remember much about either).<\/p>\n<p>(And... what the hell is <em>NA<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>I read everything else. On the very top of that huge list of genres are: Sci-fi, fantasy, distopian, and KGB\/CIA\/military\/conspiracy books.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0of\u00a0my favourite books?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/752461.Eisenhorn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eisenhorn<\/a> by Dan Abnett (and pretty much everything else I've read from him has been pretty fucking awesome)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/353814.The_Charm_School\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Charm School<\/a> by Nelson DeMille (almost anything he writes floats my boat, but this one's my favourite. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/33820.Up_Country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Up Country<\/a> is my second)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/104101.The_Lions_of_Al_Rassan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lions of Al-Rassan<\/a> by Guy Gavriel Kay<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/31335.Cry_to_Heaven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cry to Heaven<\/a> by Anne Rice (I know I said above that I don\u2019t really do romance, but I have a thing for opera and the history of the <em>castrati... <\/em>and the relationship between Tonio and Guido hit something in me. I also rather enjoyed some of her vampire books.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7745.Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/a> by HST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apart from books, I read medical journals. It's a weird hobby that started years ago when I started researching torture techniques used during the Inquisition. \u00a0I'm absolutely fascinated by medical procedures, both ancient\u00a0and\u00a0new. I've also got a thing for genetic disorders and extreme body modification.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe once I finish Spires, and Sword... and the third book in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baalsheart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baal's Heart<\/a> I'll get back to reading? Maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to read a lot, back before the writing bug bit me last summer. I would devour books, one after the other in quick succession. Sometimes up to 200 or so books a year. This year, I think I&#8217;ve read three books so far. \u00a0I&#8217;m currently reading Existence by David Brin, which I am greatly enjoying, but it&#8217;s been weeks and I&#8217;m only at 10%. I think the only time I read is when I&#8217;m in the loo. What did I use to read, you ask? Well&#8230; let me tell you! Wait. It might be easier to tell you &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"These books I read\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/these-books-i-read\/#more-399\" aria-label=\"Read more about These books I read\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[137,136,2,41,105],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-life","tag-about-me","tag-bey-knows-how-to-read","tag-beys-life","tag-books","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Photo-2014-07-08-10-39-48-AM.jpg?fit=2421%2C1782&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-6r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2570,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/writer-reader-expectations-and-some-ramblings-about-romance\/","url_meta":{"origin":399,"position":0},"title":"Writer &#038; Reader Expectations and Some Ramblings About Romance","author":"Bey","date":"April 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's funny, when I set out to write Exposed I was worried about a few things. 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