I love books recommended on here but unless I specify you mfs will recommend theory. You all read anything captivating without overt political themes?

  • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Working my way through The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan right now. Pretty standard high fantasy, Tolkien inspired.

    If you’re looking for something more light-hearted, maybe some Discworld?

    I read the Three Body series last year, very engrossing hard sci-fi imo.

    • Red_sun_in_the_sky [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I wanna read this wheel of time. I knew about it cause brandon the mistborn finished them or some shit. I’m interested.

      I also want to get into discworld. I found a book from the series in like weird thrift sale. It was thud if i remembered.

      I did read three body problem. I currently am reading the third one. The books are pretty good.

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      WoT is funny for me because if you look at who I am (demographically speaking), at the age I am, and at the sorts of books I enjoy I should love them. But I read them at exactly the wrong time in my life and hated them, and now I feel like it’s pointless to revisit them, that that first experience with them will forever taint my opinion of what I suspect are, at the very least, perfectly serviceable fantasy fare, certainly nothing worthy of hatred.

      I happened to visit a used bookstore, while on vacation in a different State to the one I live in, and there was a box with copies of all the books that had been released up to that point (I think this was right before the first Sanderson book came out). Of the 12 books, 7 were hardcover and in very good condition, though the 5 paperbacks were a little beat up. Got the whole set for, IIRC, $38. Bought the Sanderson ones too, even though I never did get around to reading them, just for completion’s sake.