Like the title! I’ve been getting back into reading for pleasure, and want to know what you like! I recently read Piranesi and loved it. I’ve heard good things about The Poppy War and Babel by R.F. Kuang, has anyone read them?
Generally just want a bunch of recommendations from your favorites, on our commie corner of the internet. No genre needed!
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Roadside picnic and The Road are definitely at the top. I am legend is so much better than the will smith movie genuinely brilliant story. His dark materials is a great series worth reading.
If you’ve ever seen the red dwarf TV series I’d recommend the books as they have a much darker more serious vibe but also hit a lot of the same comedy notes as the show. It also has a more satisfying storyline and payoff.
Oh, will add those, thanks! Roadside Picnic is fantastic, I agree, I really loved it.
Once in those early years he’d wakened in a barren wood and lay listening to flocks of migratory birds overhead in that bitter dark. Their half muted crankings miles above where they circled the earth as senselessly as insects trooping the rim of a bowl. He wished them godspeed till they were gone. He never heard them again.
I am legend is so much better than the will smith movie genuinely brilliant story
The main positive is that the movie is just one of those “trailing end of the zombie fad, what IP can we latch onto” types and has basically nothing in common, so it doesn’t spoil the impact of the book.
cormac mccarthy’s unproduced screenplay about whales
I’ve been rereading @KurtVonnegut’s works. Personal favorite is God Bless You, Mr.Rosewater. Great thing about Vonnegut is that you can just pour through 'em.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson is a must.
Also The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
Thank you, I’m honored.
If you like easy reads, try my classics Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle, and Galapagos. Breakfast of Champions is also fun, and it’s where my profile pic comes from. If you want to get REALLY weird, try Slapstick, Jailbird, or my short story collection Welcome to the Money House.
So it goes.
Cat’s Cradle is one of my favorite books… I’ve read it multiple times which is rare for me
I enjoyed it, but I like the Movie’s changes to it a lot more because of certain… things… haha
You know, people give Herbert a lot of flack for his writing style, but upon rereading Dune I really grew to appreciate the prose. Every word feels very deliberately chosen, and I like how much attention is given to what characters are thinking about each other and manage perception of themselves (especially Paul).
Yeah, and it’s especially critical in a story that involves a lot of manipulation and “plans within plans within plans”.
I know it was a meme at one point, but This Is How You Lose the Time War was really good.
