Bibliophile Thread

[robbiestoupe]

Son of the Revolution is the book that started my interest in Chinese culture especially under Mao. If you're reading more of a history but want more the feeling of living in the society I highly recommend this biography

Will check this out too, thanks

[eddy]

I liked annihilation ok but i also read the others weren't as good.

Never Let Me Go is a reddit darling for sure. It suffers from being over hyped.

I had a really tough time getting attached the never let me go, I don't think I'll be finishing.

[nocera]

Probably a long shot but has anybody read the Dungeon Crawler Carl series?

[eddy]

Probably a long shot but has anybody read the Dungeon Crawler Carl series?

Just looked at the cover and I think I want to now

[nocera]

It’s a Reddit darling. It comes up every time I look for something similar to Project Hail Mary and Murderbot Diaries. The cover art reminds me of early PC first person shooters. I’m worried it might be a bit too silly for my tastes.

[shafnutz05]

Probably a long shot but has anybody read the Dungeon Crawler Carl series?

Just looked at the cover and I think I want to now

Ditto

[DigitalGypsy66]

Hey @Gaucho do you know why the German versions of The Expanse books omit the S.A. from the author(s)' names?



I'm assuming it's a reference to the Sturmabteilung, but could it be something else?

[Gaucho]

It's exactly for that reason, yes.

[shafnutz05]

Apparently there is a sequel out to Kings of the Wyld, need to check that out. Cannot recommend the original enough, one of the most enjoyable fantasy/adventure books I've read in years.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Read the first Longmire book.

Those are tonally different from the tv show...not sure I like it.

[count2infinity]

I’ve got a 9 hour drive (18 round trip) coming up. It’s easiest for me to drive while listening to a book while my kid and wife chill in the back and do whatever to entertain themselves.

Last year I had Harry Potter lined up for the trip. I think I was halfway through the 6th book which made the trip easy to listen to the latter half of 6 and then jump into 7.

Any suggestions for something that’s a nice, easy, entertaining book for a long road trip?

Some books I’ve really enjoyed: Harry Potter as previously mentioned, House in the cerulean sea, legends and lattes, project Hail Mary, the Anthropocene reviewed. None of them hard deep thinking reads…

[DigitalGypsy66]

Andy Serkis' Lord of the Rings/Hobbit audiobooks would be good.

[nocera]

I’ve got a 9 hour drive (18 round trip) coming up. It’s easiest for me to drive while listening to a book while my kid and wife chill in the back and do whatever to entertain themselves.

Last year I had Harry Potter lined up for the trip. I think I was halfway through the 6th book which made the trip easy to listen to the latter half of 6 and then jump into 7.

Any suggestions for something that’s a nice, easy, entertaining book for a long road trip?

Some books I’ve really enjoyed: Harry Potter as previously mentioned, House in the cerulean sea, legends and lattes, project Hail Mary, the Anthropocene reviewed. None of them hard deep thinking reads…

Check out the Murderbot Diaries series. You should be able to knock out the first four novellas. They’re a ton of fun.

[Shyster]

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Gift link here, if anyone is interested:

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[count2infinity]

I ended up jumping into The Scholomance trilogy on our drive for vacation and then completed them afterwards. A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, The Golden Enclaves.

I was looking for something Harry Potter like, and I got it... kinda.

On the surface, it's a very similar story: a school for wizards and witches and the main character doesn't live the typical life of other witches and wizards and they need to save the world. But beyond that, nothing like it.

The school is the teacher, the school is also full of deadly monsters trying to kill the students, and there are also students that have gone dark trying to kill students. The students have to do their school work and survive. That's the goal. And why go to the school at all? Well, those deadly monsters are outside the school too, in greater numbers. Your chances of surviving puberty are low, but they're higher in the school than out of it. And then it just goes from there.

The first two books end on gigantic cliffhangers. I suppose I would have been upset about them had I been reading them as they were released, but I just read all three as though they were one continuous book.

It's not going to knock anyone's socks off and it's a little slow at times, but overall I enjoyed it.

[count2infinity]

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone... this book is fun. Do bother.

Family reunion (of a family full of killers) at a ski lodge in Australia and people start dying. Just an overall fun book and a great ending. Lots of 4th wall breaks, which I love.

This was from last summer. There has been a sequel. "Everyone on this train is a suspect" I think it might even be better than the first. Lots of twists and turns, a ton of 4th wall breaks, fun jokes and self deprecating humor from the narrator.

I listened in audiobook form, and there's a ton of stuff that would be better if it were the kindle or hard copy. Things where you can pause and reread quickly and look at numbers and letters... puzzle kind of stuff.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

just finished Lolita. Absolutely deserves the praise of being an alltime great novel

Nabokov’s prose can come off a little awkward at times but he’s such a witty writer. The wordplay itself makes the book a fun read


obviously the subject matter is…controversial to say the least but I love how it’s offered up. It’s a pedophile trying to justify his pedophilia and, to me, in a very unreliable manner. The commentary (the morality of the novel) and then the meta-commentary (how Nabokov offers the novel) is so dense that I’m infinitely intrigued by it


it’s really good but also a little disappointing that many people would probably avoid it because of what it’s about

[nocera]

Yeah, it's one of my favorite books. That's a fact that I don't share with many people because, you know, it brings about some questions. But the prose is really incredible. Humbert is funny and charming and you can't help but like him...and then every few pages or so he reminds you that he's a **** pedophile and you're disgusted by him again. Rinse and repeat. Just looking at purely from an exercise in language, it's really fascinating.

Random side note: Kubrick's Lolita is playing on the TV in Speed 2 Cruise Control. Later, the Keanu replacement character flirts with a deaf 14 year old girl. That was super weird.

[Rylan]

I ended up jumping into The Scholomance trilogy on our drive for vacation and then completed them afterwards. A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, The Golden Enclaves.

I was looking for something Harry Potter like, and I got it... kinda.

On the surface, it's a very similar story: a school for wizards and witches and the main character doesn't live the typical life of other witches and wizards and they need to save the world. But beyond that, nothing like it.

The school is the teacher, the school is also full of deadly monsters trying to kill the students, and there are also students that have gone dark trying to kill students. The students have to do their school work and survive. That's the goal. And why go to the school at all? Well, those deadly monsters are outside the school too, in greater numbers. Your chances of surviving puberty are low, but they're higher in the school than out of it. And then it just goes from there.

The first two books end on gigantic cliffhangers. I suppose I would have been upset about them had I been reading them as they were released, but I just read all three as though they were one continuous book.

It's not going to knock anyone's socks off and it's a little slow at times, but overall I enjoyed it.

That last line was how I felt. I thought book 1 was the best, but overall it was a pretty good/half decent story. My enjoyment of Book 1 got me through Book 3 at times lol.

[Gaucho]

[dodint]

Truly madly deeply do.

[dodint]

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone... this book is fun. Do bother.

Family reunion (of a family full of killers) at a ski lodge in Australia and people start dying. Just an overall fun book and a great ending. Lots of 4th wall breaks, which I love.

I picked this up on your recommendation and am reading it now. I haven't read the spoiler yet. It is, indeed, fun. The 4th wall stuff gets a little bit eyeroll-tedious but it makes up for it overall. I'm going to buy a physical copy for my wife.

[nocera]

I've been slowly righting the wrong of my 6-12 education. I missed a lot of classics that most people were required to read during these years. The latest in my quest was Flowers for Algernon. I knew the premise, I knew the parodies, but I didn't know any details beyond that. It's incredible. I was not expecting it to be so emotional and I don't think it would've hit me the same way had I read it when I was 13 or 14.

I'm thinking Fahrenheit 451 is next on the 'books I should have read in school' list.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

451 is a banger.

[count2infinity]

@Algernon