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[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Stephen King's Dark Tower series is my go-to epic fantasy. I'm about to start a 4th trip to the tower once I'm done with my current listen.

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, and a select few other books in the series (Speaker for the dead and Enders Shadow most notably) - Card at the top of his game is fantastic, I just wish he didn't dive completely off the deep end.

Tangentially, Berserk, if you include manga. Hands down my favorite piece of media altogether.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When I re-read Ender's Game as an adult it felt pretty mary-sueish the second time. I got why I loved it as a kid because the smart socially maladjusted kid (omg he's just like me) was kicking everyone's ass and being great at everything. As an adult it seemed a little much. Then again maybe I'm just projecting the hatred I have for my past self onto the book.

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I can get that. Its the parts around him being a Mary Sue that work so well. His ultimate draw towards pacifism despite his clear knack for death. I feel like it captures a bullied, maladjusted youth with a clear talent pretty well, all considered.

[-] TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth by Cory Doctorow

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I have read hitchhiker's guide four or five times, also the next two books. I've listened to them as audiobooks at least 10 times I'm not exactly keeping track but I used to have that on as my driving music.

I read snow crash twice and listened to it probably about a dozen times years ago. Now that I have teenage kids I'm not quite as impressed by its treatment of people in the book.

I've read most of the popular Cthulhu lure more times than I will freely admit.

[-] Downcount@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Because Clive Barker doesn't get enough credit:

The Books of Blood

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Damn him forever for not finishing the Books of the Art

[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The Little Prince, because nothing cuts so quick as real life disguised as a silly bed-time story.

[-] peo@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

There are many. The Idiot and Crime & Punishment both by Fedor Dostojevskij among the others.

[-] selinson@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Metro 2033

The Kingkiller Chronicle

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five)

[-] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Harry Potter The Martian The Cosmere (all for Sanderson's cosmere I've done a few times) The First Law Trilogy

One I will reread but just haven't yet: Uprooted Codex Alera Legends and Lattes

[-] Random_internet_user@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago

Harry potter series

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Stewart O'Nan, "Last Night at the Lobster". It's about the night a Red Lobster runs its last shift before closing for good in gritty upstate New York town. It's SO good. All his books are really, The Speed Queen is about a woman on death row being interviewed by Stephen King. Can't recommend them enough.

[-] Kazumara@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago
[-] mub@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I reread most of my books but "player of games" by Iain M. Banks I read so many times I broke it and had to buy a new copy. Weirdly, I don't think it is the best of his books, it is just a fun read.

[-] smegforbrains@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Foucault's pendulum by Umberto Eco. Just thinking about it makes me want to read this masterpiece again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A more obscure author David Eddings, did a bunch of fantasy series. The Belgirad and the mallorian were two that I've read the most but the others are great also.

Also Tolkian. And Harry Potter

[-] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ascendance of a Bookworm, shoutout to !aoblightnovel@bookwormstory.social

I’ve never been one for reading. Even for books with movies I love, I always found reading books myself a chore.

But when I saw the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime, I wanted to know what was going to happen after the season ended. This lead me to the Manga, which was behind at the time, then the light novel.

The word is rich and it has a depth that isn’t daunting. The character you meet feel like they have their own lives, and the sheer number of side stories which isn’t about our main character is wonderful.

This was the series the made me get an eReader just for the books and the many spin offs. And I now preorder it to get the prerelease chapters to get my bookworm fix every mynesday.

The translation work is amazing the story is my cup of tea, and I will recommend it to those who want something new.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

The Revival, Stephen King (×3)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck (×5)
Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, H.P. Lovecraft (×2)

And I plan on rereading:

The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy (after a bit of therapy)
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurthy
Ian Toll's Pacific War trilogy
The Things Our Fathers Saw, Matthew A. Rozell

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[-] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Jurassic Park, A Song of Ice and Fire

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, What If, Percy Jackson, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books), Isaac Asimov's Robot series, It's not Rocket Science, The End of Everything.

[-] iagomago@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

Ulysses, Siddharta, On the Road.

[-] Volkditty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

All 20 novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.

/never had the heart to read the unfinished 21st book.

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[-] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and The Left Hand of Darkness - by LeGuinn

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion

Dune

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

Stranger in a Strange Land

[-] Kayel@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago
  1. How to live safely in a science fictional universe
  2. The forever war
  3. Catch 22
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