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[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Books. Multiple.

The Practice Effect by David Brin. It's an isekai (it's not anime, but it's an isekai) where things get MORE useful when you use them, reversing entropy.

Sentenced to Prism. MC is sent on a mission to a world inhabited by silicate based life forms. Shenanigans ensue. Mildly autistic coded MC.

Resurrection Inc. The dead are resurrected as mindless zombie robots. Sometimes it goes wrong and the dead regain their memories. The MC does. Hijinks ensue.

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Mistborn Chronicles - an orphan gets super powers in a very messed up world. A group recruits her for a heist.

[-] agingquickly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Loved Sentenced to Prism! I loved the plot of the Mistborn Chronicles, but I struggled a bit with the audiobook narrator. Maybe I should actually read them…

I read them and flew through them, despite being a slow reader. The second arc though (Wax and Wane) is one of my favorite series ever. It’s set in the same universe, just centuries in the future and is basically a western. They’re great fun to read. Would recommend.

[-] RacerX@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

World War Z has hit differently after major life stages: College, marriage, kids, global pandemic, etc.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It’s too bad the zombie tv universe is flooded at this point. I’m hoping in ten or twenty years we get a premium streaming channel anthology show based on the stories in this book. The movie they made from it had so little to do with the novel.

[-] fekdifeyeno@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

I am Legend - reading it again just now.

[-] jenni007@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Clemens p suter’s two journeys series.

[-] StClinton@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago

A Clockwork Orange The Ware series by Rudy Rucker Heartstones by Ruth Rendell Coal by J. Jason Grant Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

A Clockwork Orange

I haven't read it because I'm afraid I won't like it as much as I do the movie. It happened with Jeeves & Wooster. I'd seen the series before I picked up the first book, and the Jeeves described in the book was so different from Stephen Fry - who was Jeeves, in my mind, that I just couldn't enjoy the books.

[-] CM400@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It is sufficiently different to piss you off at first, but it’s a really good read.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. A comic book about comic books, cartoons, sequential art, and art in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
its short so suitible for a quick reread & even for people who dont like books
its like a childbook in the amount of text but more for adults

[-] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Kokoro.

Also have vague plans to reread Der Zauberberg

Likely also will reread V. and the Count of Monte Christo at some point.

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There’s some good (and also some inexplicable to me) books here already so I won’t mention any of them.

I’ll choose P. G. Wodehouse. Although he’s more famous for Jeeves and Wooster I much prefer his Blandings stories. Such sublime, perfection.

His writing seems so effortlessly easy but others who have attempted to emulate it have all fallen ugly, leaden, clumsy and short of his comic genius.

[-] sem 2 points 1 week ago

Synchronicity because I just put a book on hold at the library that I'm going to read again. It is called "Galileo's Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it's half historical fiction, half science fiction about: "what if future humans living on the Galilean moons of Jupiter discovered time travel and needed Galileo's help?"

[-] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

The Malazan Book of the Fallen saga is so long that I tend to forget most of the plot of the earlier books by the time I finish.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The Martian. I’ve read it twice, and would love to read it again. It’s so good.

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lockstep by Karl Schroeder Hard sci-fi about how a intergalactic empire being run without developing any faster than light technology.

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