What is your favorite book /b/?

Cell- Stephen King

>>726649826
reading this as we speak OP. Good so far, but lots to keep track of it feels like.

>>726649826
I enjoyed The Transall Saga.

Right now im waiting for the third book of The Summoner trilogy. I also liked The Weyrs of Pern. The Percy Jackson series and the other books done by this author are nice.

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>>726649971

My Nigga

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>>726649826

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The best book by Stephen King...so deep and violent and sad and scary...really captures how it felt to be in high school and how sometimes there are people who are born losers

>>726649826
reading dune right now OP! deffs already becoming one of my favorite books - beautiful writing, amazing description of well-crafted verbal/nonverbal communication

besides that, definitely Catch-22: the absurdity is so well done, though I failed to finish the book like 3 times before I finally managed to get ahold of it correctly

>>726649826
You obviously need to read a Philip K. Dick book, nigger

>>726651505
Dune made me

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A shameful chapter in our history when we could have ended faggotry but just didn't have the balls to see it through.

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these are my favorite book

>>726651647
Great fucking book and movie!

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>>726651328
THAT YOU, CUNTINHAM?

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>>726651046
do u even shoop da whoop, nigger?

>>726651731
When HBO actually made good direct to cable movies.

>>726651767
i get the reference, but that's a fucking stupid cover

>>726651757
Yeah man...it's an awesome and a fast read...really captures how bullies are losers...Keith Gordon who played Arnie was way too handsome...Arnie was supposed to be fucking repulsive and greasy...and the guy who Dennis was not good looking enough

>>726651424
https://youtu.be/VrOhvSvKIhc

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If you dig fantasy, this is up there in masterpiece status.

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>>726649826
'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'

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The Expanse Series are phenomenal

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Love this

>>726651870
Yeah I watched the movie in health class in highschool back in 98 and it was both sad and scary...very powerful...my mother was part of the first team to really study HIV...back on the early 90s...so many friends and patients died from AIDS and from the diseases they got like that fecal flue that they got from cat shit...so fucked up

>>726652111
Always has to be some faggot who ruins trips.

>>726651757
I've always wanted that car!

There was a junkyard in my town that had one. Looked just like Christine before Arnie fixed her up.
The old man who ran the place wouldn't sell it to me.
It ended up rotting to nothing over the next 20 years. Fucking shame.

>>726649826
Brave new world. Aldous huxley
2. Protagores plato

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I know where my towel is.

>>726652090
What's it about?

>>726652275
Those cars are cool and all but a bitch to maintain

>>726652365
probably faggot shit

>>726651328
I love IT. Only king book ive read tho

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>>726651328
Great book!

My favorite has always been "The Stand"

>>726652216
Shit, I remember when this happened. It scared the shit out of me that I could go to the hospital and end up like that Ryan White kid. It was scary fucking times.

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The Eye of the World. Everything else is a bloated mess that fell short in every way shape and form, but this book is amazing.

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>>726652427
Read Desperation....that's another great stephen King book but it's also a beginner book for folks who want to be introduced to King...scary, violent, intense.

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Fuckin love this one.

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>>726652473
The Stand is phenomenal. One of my favs, along with Into the Wild.

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King Rat by James Clavell

>>726652572
Yeah man...I was a little kid when it happened...but I remember all the protests and the news footage and I lived in San Francisco

>>726652400
They're not too bad. I've had plenty of experience helping restore old cars.
The problem with the Fury is parts

>>726652683
It was meant to be a warning but it was used as an instruction manual.

Hyperion

>>726652311
Stole mine, awesome pick anon

>>726652473
What does that cover have anything to do with the story?

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>>726649826

>>726652922
It's the battle between good and evil... VEGAS VS DENVER

>>726652933
Sad book

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My favorite when I was a kid.
Read it before the movie

>>726652922
Ultimate evil (Randall Flagg) vs Ultimate good (Boulder colony), personified in an angel and the reaper

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Easy read, but still enjoy it regardless of the opinions about the author.

>>726652840
>>>/reddit/

itt neckbeards and edgelords

>>726651726
Hell yeah

>>726653066
Never watch movie 3. In fact you might want to avoid movie 2 as well.

>>726652587
I thought 1-6 were good 4 and 5 best after Eye of the world. But after 6 just down hill.

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Difficult choice. Either pic related (1/4)

>>726653227
What's wrong with the author?

>>726649826
The spice = oil analogy is fair enough, but the lazy, uneducated (in modern times), bigoted, misogynistic Arabs/Muslims are hardly comparable to the quiet, intelligent, patient, industrious, educated, water-conserving Fremen.
If anything, the Fremen would be Israelis.

Think about that.

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>>726653335
2/4

>>726651424
Hunter s thompson my nigga

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>>726652587
i am in agreement with that

after finishing that i was like so fucking pumped that there was soooooo many more books to continue to read like genuinely more excited than i'd been in a while

i read through Great Hunt pretty fast feeling "meh" the whole time, but kept thinking it would get better, maybe like a settup for the next book

i only made it about halfway through Dragon Reborn before just giving up on it altogether

that was about a year ago now and i haven't even considered going back to it. kind of depressing honestly. i'm getting the itch again so i might just reread LOTR like a basic bitch

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>>726653379
3/4

>>726653379
On the Road? Seroiusly?

Who hurt you, Anon?

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>>726653430
or 4/4

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This one profoundly changed the way I think about things, tbh

>>726653430
or, "My Idea for the Bestest Boot Camp Ever!", by Robert A Heinlein

>>726653335
Oh my god I have that exact edition

>>726653529
I made my little cousin watch the cartoon.
He had nightmares.
kek

>>726653004
>>726653211
Oh fuck. I was thinking of Stand By Me

>>726653597
Why is Catch 22 low tier on that list? Catch 22 is the shit

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>>726653597
>Atlas Shrugged
>God-tier

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The whole series was amazing.

>>726652243
Warm, creamy log of shit nigger

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Good read

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>>726653597
>atlas shrugged god tier
>hobbit and mockingbird shit tier

this is a fucking offense the humankind
whoever made that abomination should kill themselves promptly

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>>726653597
Notes from the underground as low tier but the great gatsby as god tier? Fuck outta here

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>>726649826

2001 a space odyssey

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>>726653351
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Opinion

tldr: He hates fags

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>>726653597

>>726653921
oh that makes me like him even more

>>726653351
Some people hate him cause he dislikes fags, don't worry about it.

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>>726653123

>>726653936
Now that's some gay shit right there

>>726653921
And?

>>726649826
Reading is for nerds

>>726649826
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>>726651505
reading dune currently as well. i'm only 156 pages into it but i'm loving it.

>>726653844
it's bait you prole, and you bit it

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yurope 2 is my favorite

>>726652741

Reading through the Asian Saga, just finished Gai-Jin, I think this is next.

Shogun will always be my favourite in the series though.

>>726649826
Moby Dick

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Thanks a lot, Sabaton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNeastYxEc

>>726654134
i highly doubt that is bait
some liberal arts freshman with millions of upboats on Leddit probably made it and defends it with zeal comparable only to his passion for sucking black cock

>>726653680
Remind me what it's about anon? It's been a few years, and I do a lot of reading.

>>726654078
That's it really. I don't give a fuck either way, but some people boycott his works because of it. Now the abomination of a movie that was made should be boycotted on its own merits, or rather lack thereof.

>>726654222
They are all truly epic tales. I just got to King Rat fist because my grandfather gave it to me to read one road trip. It just changed me.

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The goat of fantasy books.

>>726654222
King Rat has almost nothing to do with Noble House, but it's a great read nonetheless.

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This book series is pretty red pilled.

All you motherfuckers are reading King and other old shit, meanwhile I'm over here worried about how badly this movie adaptation is going to crash...

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>>726654777
Fucking wasted trips by forgetting the picture. Fucking going to go an hero.

>>726653227
whats wrong with the author?

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>>726654628
we are talking about real good books, go read something decent

>>726654940
/thread

>>726654940
STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE

>>726649826
is Dune worth reading? Been thinking about getting it.

>>726654437
WW2 bombabier named Yossarian tries to get out of flying combat missions by claiming he's crazy. The military argues that only a sane person would claim to be crazy to get out of flying missions where death is almost a certainty. Hence "Catch 22".


Hilarity ensues.

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>>726654940
Nobody beats GRRM's unique blend of historical novel & pulp fiction. Book Ramsay is bae <3

>>726654777
>>726654902
ya that's pretty fuckin terrible bro, remember the cut goes across the tracks

as for that movie, it has "American" in the title so it will be a huge fucking success as every mouth breathing retard in the country lines up to buy tix

>>726655059
Right! That fucking book! That book was the shit.

>>726655048
Fucking read it faggot. I got it for my 70 year old grandpa who loves philosophy, and he bought the whole series for himself after reading the 1st one.

>>726654452
>>726654597

King Rat is the odd one out in terms of characters and continuation, but I think is the best in the overall theme of the series regarding the East and the West interacting and their changing political and economic fortunes.

Sucks that Clavell died before he could finish the series. He had one in 70's Japan called 'Nippon' and modern day 'China' planned.

Grateful for what we got though.

>>726649826
The eragon series

>>726655169
You smell like shit

>>726651722
Wiz seminal cyberpunk choices, chummer.

William Gibson is my favorite author.

>>726654939

Just from skimming a few sites, apparently Orson Card is against homosexuality, claiming that it is a result of rape or other sexual crimes. He is also a devout member of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints.

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>>726654940
so before it was the most popular fantasy show ever it was cool right? but now that so many people like it it sucks right? are you gonna tell us youre vegan and talk about how cool your Prius is too?

To all the Stephen King fans, anyone else ready Richard Bauchman? And yes, I know its a pen name for King.

I like how his books are more realistic, especially how they don't end well for the main character.

'Roadwork' is my over all favorite, sort of like a percursor to Falling Down.

>>726654628
>a song of memes and shit

We're talking about real literature here kiddo

>>726651015
mah nigga

>>726655380
33 my ass. someone being fishhooked? socialise.

>>726655380
It was always shit, go cry somewhere else

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Any of David R. Hawkins books.

>>726655379
nothing wrong with that

>>726652933
Makes me cry everytime

>>726653730
currently re-reading the whole series, awesome stuff

>>726653354
It seems like it is more of an economic systems analogy to me. The fremen are hunter gatherers, and then there is the feudal system that is then dominated by intergalactic corporations.

I wonder how the upcoming Dune movie will be done in current years with terms like jihad and things alike that happens in the novel.

>>726649826
Literally just read that, one of my favorites

>>726655843
I mean, yeah, I personally disagree with the man, but he has the right to express his views, as long as it does not incite physical violence against a group of individuals. In all honesty, if I came across a copy of one his books and it interested me, I'd be willing to read it.

>>726649971
>>726651039
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>>726652602
SK is such a genius, I love him, nice to see a lot of fans

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>>726654940
>>726655515
>popular things are bad because they're popular

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Masterful

>>726653529
This book connected with me on a very instinctual level, the fear, the struggle, the characters, the love...

>>726649826

Dunno tbh

>>726652473
Third act was weak but still one of my favorites

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Reading this one right now. I've always heard it is one of the greatest works of fiction of the 19th century so I figured I would give it a crack. A little over halfway through.

>>726653227
Good book, best in the series is Speaker for the Dead though. Xenocide is really good too.

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Life changing.

>>726652587
I got the audio books from tor and listening to them at work. Nearly 3 months of non stop listening and I just got done with book 8. Im invested now, but god damn it needs to pick up the pace.

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>>726653529
is it anything like this?

>>726656593
"nobody poops but you"

>>726653227
>
whats wrong with the author?

>>726649826
ender's shadow

mein kampf.jpg

>>726654939
>>726656782

see
>>726653921

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I grew up reading Stephen King & Clive Barker. I believe this was my first Barker novel.

>>726656677
the dude who does those books is awesome. love his voice he does for Loial

>>726656782
He's a Mormon?

>>726654030
Your comment made me laugh my ass off.

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this had a profound impact on my life

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>>726656771

>>726652683
same, nigger. same.

The count of Monte Cristo....forced to read it for an English class turned out loving it.

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Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig is on of my favorites.

>>726649826
I've read Dune multiple times over the years. Amazing.

Who /lit/ here?

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I had this book recommended to me by a singer/songwriter I admired and actually got to meet in person and I asked him about the inspirations to his lyrics. It took me a few attempts to make it all the way through because it is not reader friendly but it was well worth the effort.

>>726652683
I'm supposed to be doing an essay on this one rn lol

Are the Dune sequel novels worth reading?

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>Has dragon sex
>Fuckyeah.jpg

>>726653730
still gotta check this.

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>>726649826

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>>726650759
Percy Jackson were some of my favorite books too. Pic is my favorite of all time

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Glaring omission from this list.

>>726656995
Indeed. His voice for Loial gives a needed "flavor" to the conversations that stand it apart from the normal subtle voice changes between the human characters.

>>726653335
yes. Dark Tower is my favorite series of all time.

>>726657742
yes and the prequels too

>>726652840
faggot

>>726653077
this book fucking sucks

>>726653227
i'm one of the few people who didn't like this book. it was "okay"

>>726656593
Apples poop?

>>726653730
it's on my list

>>726653597
I think "the grapes of wrath" should be replaced by "East of Eden". It was Steinbeck's best book in my opinion.

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@726653354
Gosh, its almost like the book was written years and years ago. Almost like it wasn't meant to be applied in modern times.

>>726658522
>>726658522
>@726653354
this isn't Twitter ya dimwit

>>726658019
Oh this book gave me the feels as a kid.

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>>726653597
Love Count of Monte Cristo. It evolved me.

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>>726652683
>>726653077
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>>726658019
Big fan of these, but this is my favorite.

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Also a great book and movie. Loved the book more

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@726658599
Hook, line, and sucker
Easiest (You)'s of my life.

>>726658695
does this book end with traps?

The giver

>>726649826
The Great Gatsby or Animal Farm

The glass bead game

>>726654134
I was kinda wanting to read don quixote, could you inform me as to why its shit tier, i legitimately want to know

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>>726657653
a clasic

Look homeward angel

>>726656371
>A little over halfway through.
Well you've got some hell of a patience. I got to about 1/3 before I decided to quit. I do love how the language is rich and complex, how each sentence is crafted to be unique and interesting, makes it very immersive. But the voluntarily boring and empty subject matter was too much. IMO, Dickens has the same power but he chooses actually interesting subjects, see A Tale of Two Cities.

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THE WHEEL OF TIME by robert jordan
Easily one of the best epic fantasies

Your screwing yourself over if you don't listen on audiobook

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>>726649826
Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov.

>>726655397
This

>>726659017
power armor

>>726654324
some day i should really look more into the people that take center stage for that album

>>726653392

I just had the complete ebook and I agree. I loved Eye of The World, especially the climax at the end. The Great Hunt was definitely a fast read, but at first in a thrilling way, until it got to the part with the women. The action slowed down after that, and the ending fell flat of what I expected. Then I started reading Dragon Reborn (after a brief stint of disappointment/anger over TGH ending). I made it halfway through Dragon Reborn when an underlying problem began to nag at me, and that was something caused by me spoiling the later books for myself.

The relationships in the book had terrible development. Not only was the character pairing bad, but the way Jordan developed relationships (not just the romantic) was lazy and unimaginative, not to mention disturbing. So reading about characters that I cared about in pointless and insubstantive relationships that had major effects on the plot and choices really pissed me off. It's like there was no valid motivation or reason for anything anyone did, and that eventually made every character seem lifeless and unmotivated. then he explained it all away with the overlying theme of prophecy and predestination.

SPOILER: I never like relationships with huge age gaps, and Lan and Nynaeve suddenly being a thing came literally out of nowhere. Moiraine and Thom? Non-existent throughout the book. These were poorly developed and matched pairs that were used to justify major character decision and actions that affected the story. So I knew from reading summaries that this was going to be weak, and I picked it up the very first time when I read EoTW and TGH, and having Lan-Nynaeve forced so terribly. The relationships that could have actually been well development and led to unique and meaningful character interactions never happened the way I hoped (RIP Lan-moiraine, Egwene-Perrin). overall, Jordan doesn't understand how human interaction works, and it made everything hard to stomach.

>>726659127
Ah that reminds me the Golden Compass series was nice. I wouldnt say my favorite though.

>>726659017
I'm re-reading that now from when I was a teenager from what you would now call an adult

I love everything about it but I can't help but feel like Brandon Sanderson is a bit childish/corny

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>>726653430

>>726657817
i am intrigued

>>726651726
10/10 series

>>726659351

"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much… because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting."

>>726651726
This book was interesting but at the end of it I felt like nothing really happened

>>726653392
you think brandon sanderson did better or worse?

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>>726649826

>>726649826
Right now, its Worm
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

>>726659538
people laugh as an automatic reward for noticing patterns or breaks in patterns

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>>726659322
Polar bears make deals on women-factoriums?

>>726653077
What the fuck is up with this book? The writing style is such an annoying gimmick and a pain in the ass to read through. The concept is interesting but it gets old extremely fast.

>>726659318
You whore. Mixing thoughtful opinions and spoilers.

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Really enjoyed this series

>>726658522

how fucking new are you, Pleb?

>>726658522


Now I gotta use my common sense to find the source of your shitty comment. More work than you deserve.

>>726653354

>>726653077
whiny rich libtard snowflake engages in protracted self pity. terrible.

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>>726659318
ahhhhhh dude yes, Lan and Nyneave is exactly the thing that planted the seed of my complete and utter loss of interest and lack of motivation to continue with the series

like seriously what the fuck?

it felt like a forced relationship on a reality TV show where even though you know that whole show is fake, you're still willing to believe it cause it's "reality"... but then that particular relationship is soooo painfully forced that you can't overlook it at all. it sticks out like a sore thumb of obvious fakeness within a show that you're willing to believe is somewhat real

damn i totally forgot about that since, as i said, it's been about a year since i put it down

thanks for reminding me not to consider picking it up again

>>726653351
He's a Mormon.

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@726659969
@726660129
>two more (You)s from easy pickings
How new are you in terms of collecting (You)'s? Top lel

>>726653227
This book, great, the rest of the books? money chasing dogshit that got caught up in his religion and slide into right wing reactionary extremism

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We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory, nice weird little story, more like a nightmarish fantasy novel set in the now, tense, inventive, horrifying. Worth the read.

>>726659917
The sexual dominance shit made me feel sick, the first one was good but I couldn't make myself relive it again in the second. That wizard that just fucks with the torture bitches was satisfying.

>>726653529
Hrududus.

It's gulliver's travels with rabbits, in a way.

>>726659344
How so?

>>726659636
Oooooh Fuck. I just finished reading this and the follow up Everville. Stunning.

>>726649826
Read the entire series a couple years back, now I'm trying to finish The Clan of the Cave Bear series. I'm on The Plains of Passage

>>726653597
What I had to read at 14 is top tier,
what my family told me to read is shit tier,
what my friend recommended or I skipped reading? Mid tier.

You're an idiot.

The Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut.

>>726657449
[mental vomiting]

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>>726649826
This. Potentially to be ruined by a CW adaptation soon.

>>726651726
my gf bought me this for christmas.
i've only read about 20 pages so far

>>726658393
loved that when I was eight, re-read at 40, held up nicely. Good ANTI-Ayn Rand book. 'Being the best you is great, but you still need other people in your life, and they might even need help too,'

Gardens of the moon - Steven Ericson

>>726659203
Man, fuck that. Ward 7 by Valeriy Tarsis is one entire ward better!

>>726653730
In the middle of Hyperion

>>726659636
Fantastic choice.

>>726652090
Unreadable gibberish about guys with little horns

>>726659636
>>726660975
Clive Barker, pigeon holed as a horror writer, probably one of the best dark fantasy authors alive. He's written a few duds but his bibliography is full of corkers.

>>726658393
Loved this book when I was a kid.

>>726649826
I'm a bit partial towards "timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut.

A Wrinkle in Time.

>>726653077
one of my favorite books but I'm scared to take it with me anywhere or tell people im reading it because of that guy that killed john lennon who loved the book so im afraid people will think im a murderer

>>726656197
And Boris Vallejo is my favorite artist of all time. I think I want to read this

>>726661373
Clearly the only answer.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

>>726657649
Did you read the rest, like V.?

shanika at the plantation club

Ive always liked the choose your own adventure books.

>>726656970
My first Clive Barker book was Weaveworld. Shit was so weird, but now I've started on Imajica I think is the name. His descriptions of the surroundings and emotions are just fantastic.

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Hard to pick just one of Stanislaw Lem's

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Roadside Picnic, by the Strugatsky bros

Expendable by James Allen Gardner

>>726661373


R. Scott Bakker is leagues beyond anyone else.

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Wrinkle, wrinkle

A favorite book from my middle school years was The House of the Scorpion.

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>>726661850
I'm not going to say it's a great book, but this one was a mind-fucker

I loved the Shadow of Ender series by Orson Scott Card (The Ones about Bean)

I thought Ender's Game was really good too.

>>726657861

This is a pamphlet not a book.

>>726662127
I only ever read the first book, were the rest of them any good or no?

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Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash

>>726658393
Read this as a kid in 5th grade, loved it dearly

>>726662654
this is a really stupid book and you should be ashamed

>>726660975
My nigga

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Slices of life

>>726649826
>>726649826
vladimir volkov
"Le montage"

>>726660279

You're welcome. I just don't want anyone like me to get excited and invested in the huge commitment that is this series just to be disappointed throughout by weak characters.

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After reading this I don't think I'm ever gonna enjoy anything ever again. Wolfe is truly a gift to us.

>>726661305
I think it's more that he refuses to turn away from the visceral that has kept him at the fringes of any genre, even horror. However, that's a good thing because Barker is Barker. There is no comparison to his brand of the dark fantastic. He'd not ashamed of horror but his writing is much more than the usual horror elements. He's done amazing things with creating legitimate multidimensional characters of the strange, horrific, and abominous . He's one of a kind, for sure.

>>726662240
I remember that

>>726659811
They should make a series of Dune, like GoT, they have enough material to pull it off.

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>>726662699
why?
it's a bit dated with the depiction of the internet as a thing you visit in vr, but that doesn't make it bad just makes it cyberpunk.

Currently reading the Bible. It has some really good short stories to jack off to.

My favorite is also a bit of a guilty pleasure, Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.
He's pure cynical teenage angst and edge, and his new books are garbage, but I always come back to this book. I think it's the disjointed structure and all of the mechanics and discussion of the [spoiler]time travel[/spoiler]. My other, more likely to be well known, favorite is Hearts in Atlantis by King, namely the title novella. I love the world he's crafted in this short sweet story, feels like I'm there playing hearts in the sixties.

>>726649826
when I heard a new movie was coming out I started reading it. last time I read Dune I was 12 and I didn't put together how much of a creepy pedophile Barron Harkonnen was.
I was so innocent and dumb back then.

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funny story about this
>on cruise on Royal Caribbean ship with my family when i got this book on kindle.
>legit got so hooked on the book that my dumbass would stay in the library section of the boat to read it for hours instead of going on deck and drinking with fam.
> my fucking dad asked if i wanted to get off the boat at Aruba to do excursions and do shit and I said no so i could continue to read the book
> My dad's face of disappointment as he said ok and turned away from me to leave.
>To this day i wish i fucking got off that fucking ship to be with him but decided to not be with him to read the book
But yeah this is a good read and recommend this greatly written story to you guys.