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4/18/2021 5:24:07 AM
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Amy good book recommendations?
I've been bored recently and looking for something to read.
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Hard to do without knowing age or interests. Merchanter’s Luck - C.J. Cherryh. Great sophisticated writer. Her aliens are truly alien. Neuromancer - William Gibson. Coined the term cyberspace. Garth Nix books are for teens and adults. British mystery. Dorothy L. Sayers, John Mortimer, Reginald Hill WWII. Cornelius Ryan, Edward L. Beach. Classics. Dracula, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Call of the Wild, The Caine Mutiny, Long Days Journey Into Night. Try The Gutenberg Project, which has 60,000 free books to download. Tons of classics, but nothing new since the copyright has expired.
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‘Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’ by William Shirer and ‘Grant’ by Ron Chernow. You’ll appreciate your life a lot more after doing so. [spoiler]Sorry, all out of salt.[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyInfantry Tactics-by Erwin Rommel
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1984 Animal Farm. The Inheritance Cycle Divergent The Hunter Games
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[i]Heretics[/i] and [i]Orthodoxy[/i] are good reads by G.K. Chesterton. C.S. Lewis wrote that he enjoyed Chesterton's [i]The Everlasting Man[/i] in [i]Surprised By Joy[/i], another good read. I think Marshall McLuhan's [i]Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man[/i] would be a good read judging from Chapter's 1 and 7 provided courtesy of MIT.
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The thesaurus. Dictionary is overrated.
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Edited by IronJak24: 4/20/2021 6:55:39 AMC.S Lewis Out of The Silent Planet. Also Star Wars The Old Republic: Revan. Lastly Diary of an Eight Bit Warrior (and Tales of an Eight bit Kitten) read the whole series. Oh and the Percy Jackson series
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Don't know much about her but the only book I see by her is Claiming the Coldflame if you're interested in high fantasy.
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Who's Amy Good?
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The Diary Of Samuel Pepys
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Anna Karenina, i’m in the middle of it, Tolstoy labels it as his greatest work of literature
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Usually anything by Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov. These are two of my favourite sci-fi authors.
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1 ReplyOh boy, you've come to the right place. I know it's been said before, but anything by Brandon Sanderson is good; he's basically the epitome of modern high fantasy. Steelheart is his superhero book, except all the superheroes are badguys; Mistborn is his urban fantasy; The Stormlight Archive is his suoer hugh fantasy; with a softer magic system and more distinct realms within the world; and Skyward is his sci-fi with spaceships and almost sentient AI. Keep in mind Stromlight Archive and Skyward are unfinished series, but they're both still very good. My favorite was Stormlight, it's the biggest in scope and it's more complex than the other ones, and when everything comes together, the plot becomes really exciting. Mistborn was my least favorite, it's one of his earlier works, so i found a few bits to be contrived and unpolished. Next author is Mercedes Lackey. Her stuff is a little drier, it's a little slower, but the payoff at the end is unmatched. She really takes the time to build her plots and develop her characters before rushing to any other part of the story. So sometimes you're going to have parts of tolkien-esque description about how a nail was bent at precisely 37° and the light reflected off the surface on to an antpile where 6 ants crawled across it, so if you like that, you're in luck. Anything by her is good, but the best of her stuff is the Obsidian Trilogy and the Enduring Flame Trilogy, both taking place in the same universe and both co-written by James Mallory. To me, there is no better example of character development than these two series, so if you're in the mood to read an average teen turn into a legendary hero, definitely pick these two up. Next is Tunnels, by Roderick Gordon. This book is very creative; it's about this miner kid that discovers a secret society that's been living underground for milinea. It's pretty action-oriented, so the plot moves fairly quickly, but the premisis is so unique that i haven't found anything quite like it ever since. There's indiana jones-y exploration parts, there's survivalist parts, there's sneaky espianoge parts. It's like a mix between Journey to the Center of the Earth and like James Bond, and there's a lot of cool elements that stem from the worldbuilding. I gtg rn, but i has more
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Rangers apprentice is a pretty simple series but is rather short The Inheritance Cycle is great and reads like JRR Tolkien’s and CS Lewis’ books
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The Dresden Files series. The Nate Temple series. Fire and Feathers series. That’s a couple of years worth of reading.....
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Green Eggs and Ham. The twist towards the end is powerful and completely subverts the expectations of the typical reading media.
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Bioshock: Rapture
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The Colour of Magic. One of the bets in the Discworld series.
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I really enjoyed the Ender & Shadow series, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and anything written by Brandon Sanderson
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Edited by Cultmeister: 4/18/2021 8:32:32 AM-Any Human Heart by William Boyd (fictional diaries of a writer living through the 20th century. Gets involved in the wars, meets various famous people etc.) -House of Cards by Michael Dobbs (what the Netflix series was (very loosely) based on, along with the original BBC series. A trilogy.) -Filth by Irvine Welsh (Scottish cop trying to cope with his falling apart life and hide it from his coworkers.) -The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk (biography of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein) -Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (bonkers sci-fi, better than The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy imo)
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I read a lot of non-fiction. Underland by Robert Macfarlane and Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan were 2 that I read last year that I liked and would recommend.
