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What is a book that you will gladly read again?
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I am Legend - reading it again just now.
Snow Crash Rendezvous with Rama Foundation (all of them) Moonwalking with Einstein (non function about memory champions)
Snow Crash
I should read that again, although I burned myself out in cyberpunk decades ago.
Rendezvous with Rama
Another classic to add to the re-read list! It's been years.
Foundation
Yeah. This one is the one I most sympathize with. I used to read the original trilogy every few years; I don't think any of the subsequent one(s?) were worth the first read. I need to read them again just to bleach the Apple abomination out of my mind.
Have you ever read the Caves of Steel? I had never read it before until recently but it's really cool.
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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.
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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.
The Dark Tower series. All of them
Considering I am currently rereading the Stormlight Archive - I’ll go with that.
The bridge trilogy.
I’m not a big rereader, but at some point I’d like to read through the expanse and the locked tomb again
Just done a reread of these and would gladly reread again.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books in the series)
They are short enough that you could easily read all of them in a couple months at a steady pace.
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Infinite Jest. Takes about like 2 years to read though lol.
The Sandman Slim series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/46424-sandman-slim
And
The Dresden Files series
Clemens p suter’s two journeys series.
Adam Levin's The Instructions
Ecclesiastes
Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer — actually most Dick outside of A Scanner Darkly
Neal Stephenson's... well, anything, but especially Zodiac, Anthem, and Diamond Age
Brian Daley's Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood and The Blind Assassin
Anything by Ursula LeGuin, ever
Hugh McLeod's Ignore Everybody
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series
Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Trilogy
Adam Levin's The Instructions
I have that on my shelf, but have only read the first chapter or so, I think, just couldn't get into it. Bought on a whim, partly because of how huge it was!
I take it it's worth another shot?
If you only read the pool scene, you didn't really get into the meat of the book. That said, if the content of the pool scene was a big turn-off for you, there will be several other scenes throughout the book that will also be big turn-offs.
At the very start you mean? That was fine, not bothered by that.
I started reading it again today (and found my old bookmark!) and apparently I got a fair bit further than that.
Today I read as far as Gurion being in the office after fighting, and I was quite enjoying it, so maybe it'll stick this time 😁
Where he ruminates on the finger pointing-flicking being like the lights on construction barriers flashing? And he meets Eliza and rubs the foundation off his thumbs? I'd say that's where it kicks into gear, yeah.
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A Clockwork Orange The Ware series by Rudy Rucker Heartstones by Ruth Rendell Coal by J. Jason Grant Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
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.
Witcher, I've read it at least once every two/three years for the last 18 years and it's still entertaining.
Planning my second read-through. What a work of art
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