It's 11:35 pm and I can't sleep! What's everyone been reading or watching lately?

[iww4@lemmy.zip]

The first two episodes of that mini series were great and then it nose dived.

[sergio@piefed.social]

I've been re-reading Zola's novel "The Downfall" on Gutenberg, about the Franco-Prussian War. It may seem a bit esoteric, but it's an interesting description of what happens when a government prioritizes loyalty over competence, and then overextends on foreign policy.

[iww4@lemmy.zip]

I watched two related docuseries:

One is baked Hollywood Hustler. It is about this guy who brings in all his college buddies and executes a Ponzi Scheme but claiming to sell Shows to HBO in Latin America.

While the dicuseries is entertaining at times, it is pretty thin on details of what the scheme was and how it went down. A lot of that was because he pleaded guilty so the details were not made public.

One interesting aspect of it all was how he completely kept his wife in the dark about her whole thing. Unless she is just as good of a liar as he is, she claims that she was completely oblivious to the whole thing.

The second one is called ROMCON, Who the Fuck is Jason Porter. I am only about an hour into it and it is about a guy who presumably ripped off a bunch of very successful women.

[cathybikesbook@piefed.zip]

Just finished reading "Such A Fun Age" by Kiley Reid. Spent the night watching the NY Knicks beat the Lakers and then finished watching the 2026 Grammys telecast.

[gammagames@beehaw.org]

Iirc the first few episodes more closely followed the book

[queenofthenerds@discuss.online]

I’ve been watching Wednesday kind of over and over. I grew up loving the Addams Family, so it was kind of inevitable I’d end up obsessed with this one too. I find its quite a bit different from the original Addams Family just with Wednesday's relationship with her mother, Morticia and all but I enjoy the show. It's my bedtime show lol.

[brachypelmide@lemmy.zip]

Bit late to the party, but I finished reading William Gibson's Neuromancer not too long ago. One of the foundational books of cyberpunk, and I can see why. I really liked it! And it's not too long a read either, at 280ish pages if I recall correctly.

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

Re-reading Hail Mary before the movie comes out.

[benderrodriguez@lemmy.world]

Read that for the first time last weekend. Easily top 5 favorite books.

[professorozone@lemmy.world]

I agree. My favorite book is The Martian. This is my second favorite. But don't bother with Artemis. It's trash.