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Last year I read Dune, Hyperion and neuromancer and this year I read dirk gently’s holistic detective agency. I’m still trying to get started on Mona Lisa overdrive and then I’ve got fall of Hyperion and the long dark teatime of the soul and good omens on my shelf. Just catching up on my seminal Sci-fi literature.

What did you think of neuromancer?

>got back into reading as an adult
>fiction bores the shit out of me
I just don't care about detectives or dragons 2bh

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It was really fucking good. Nice prose and easy to follow.

Yes. I'm reading more and watching more anime because films and shows are shit now.

SUNSET FOUND HER SQUATTING IN THE GRASS

Why are you reading genre fiction you fucking retard? Read fiction written for adults

Is this bait? Some tumblr-tier writing

yeah
far more interesting shit than that

I like Blood Meridian and The Godfather what else should i read?

Books are too exhausting, the way you have to hold them and turn pages. I lay on my back and watch the sky while others read to me.
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It's cute but I don't understand the hype around it. Yeah it's technically the book that gave the cyberpunk genre its name but it's not a good cyberpunk book in my opinion, the same way Hackers isn't a good cyberpunk film.

I'll have you know the master of horror, HP Lovecraft, was behind this piece. He’s not even the best American horror fiction writer. He himself was a fan of Edgar Allan Poe and it shows in his work

You need to give it a chance. Reading a book is the highest form of immersion. That is not a lie

Neuromancer was pretty good.
Someone at work brought in a bunch of books to give away, and I found it at the bottom of the box.
Currently browsing through Fire and Blood, its interesting. More like a really dry history book than anything

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I read over 70 books last year and I don't even remember the last time I picked up a book.

Heh. Thanks for posting that. My father actually recorded on a tape from bbc radio 4 each episode of that when I was s child. I’ve had wonderful memories of me and my brother listening to this for th first time as 11 year olds. Gods speed user

I'm reading Dune to my 3D anime waifu. She's really liking it so far, which makes me happy. I was worried she might find the beginning slow.

I'VE BEEN READING DUNE FOR ABOUT 4 MONTHS NOW PLEASE GOD JUST LET IT END AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE, WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOU READ THE NEXT ONE! AND THE NEXT ONE! AND THE NEXT ONE! AND THE NEXT ONE! AND THE NEXT ONE!
But we'll stop there.

Grad school has me reading 300-400 pages/week, shit you would likely never want to read voluntarily. I only read for pleasure to go to sleep. Haven't seen a new movie in at least a couple years, but I still enjoy what I have seen.

At least my book collection is over 200 at this point. I might take a break from reading after I graduate, but not likely.

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goddam this is cringe

I've tried to get into the Wheel of Time, but goddamn, why is every character so far up thier own ass all the time?
My friend recommended that I read New Spring first, I guess its the first one? I just couldn't do it.
So then I tried Eye of the World, and it felt like I was reading some sort of anime.
Whats the appeal here? Should I just press on and it'll get better later?

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I read at least 30 minutes a day. I'm on the hundred pages of a Dance with Dragons. Overall I enjoyed the GOT books even if they each have glaring flaws and 4 and 5 were a step down.
I'm also writing a fantasy romance novel about a young knight and a tsundere warrior princess who team up to save the world from an evil wizard. I'm deeply sexually repressed so the affection is limited to kissing/cuddling/blushing.

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I've read GoT probably 3-4 times so far in the past couple years. I already know whats gonna happen, but man, I love how he describes shit.
I found a bunch of the Witcher books a couple months ago, and i'm about to dig into those.
I've heard they were pretty decent

It's trash. Get out now while you still can. If you want a better fantasy series that's thousands of pages long, try Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. Or if you want to read legitimately well-written fantasy, try Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.

Books are for people who want to have an active imagination but don't. I don't need a book to dream something up and immerse myself in a new world, I do it regularly with no assistance.

Venus on the Half Shell
I have a very old copy, and some pages fell out.

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The tripfag has been called everything. Attention whore, faggot, cancer, reddit...it rolls off his back like water, but tell him he’s filtered and observe how he recoils “I’ve been found out”

>he's never read The Meditations

Yes. Bram Stoker's "Jewel of 7 Stars" then H.R.Haggard "She" and now I'm in the middle of the sequel.

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check out snowcrash. its the most cyberpunk of all cyberpunk.

lol nice cope attentionlet

>Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen

I'm half way through. I'd never really read any fantasy before but decided I fancied taking on an epic series after watching GoT. I'm having a great time.

the Endymion duology follows Hyperion and its about a bloke in love with a little girl who's angry at the catholic church, jumping from planet to planet

Working my may through the Bond books on Audible

I've been reading the Oxford Book of Gothic Fiction recently. It's sort of amazing just how much Poe stands above everyone else.

Are we still pretending that reading is hard? Despite the fact that we're all doing it right at this very moment?

I just finished reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

>My friend recommended that I read New Spring first
you have a bad friend, always read in publication order, the first is mostly a LOTR knock off, the 2nd is when it comes into its own

If you're looking for some nice fantasy trash to read, I highly recommend the Darksword trilogy
In thier world, everyone has some sort of magic ability, except this one child that was born 'dead'.
Blah blah the prophecy says he'll end up destroying everything, so everyone wants him dead, or to use him for other things.
Some pretty interesting political intrigue goes down, and suddenly a hole is ripped open in the fabric of whatever, and suddenly you've got wizards and dragons battling modern day tanks and shit that were waiting on the other side.
Its just as dumb and entertaining as it sounds

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It's as dumb as Hyperion was good.

>Celephaïs
Based

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I read roughly one book per week so I've read about 30 or so this year alone.

if you like Malazan check out Black Company. same vibe but it sticks with the small troupe of soldiers

>Hickman and Weis Presents "Gate".

Sold. Thanks for the heads up.

correct but i still liked it

how the fuck can you bring yourself to "highly recommend" this trash? or anything written by wies and hickman, just fucking kys, although the laser tanks vs wizard fight was ok

Reading pic related and its pretty fuckn good. Are the sequels even worth reading?

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The distinction is between long-form concentrated reading and consuming tiny morsels of information through text. Night and day

>haven't finished a book in 4 years

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fuck off. Every other thread here has some bookfag who doesn’t understand the medium of cinema complaining that an adaptation isn’t directly recreating the source material.

anyone have any hard sci-fi recommendations? this and Rendezvous with Rama are the only hard stuff i've read. so much sci-fi is as soft as butter

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not really but if you liked that then just read more crichton most of his books are the same themes just with a slightly different setting

No I hate reading lol

Also a brief shoutout to Rose of the Prophet
Gods arguing and fighting for power amongst themselves, and they physically get stronger or weaker depending on how many people believe in them

Lots of sandnigs in this one, but it mostly follows this gay elf trap named Matthew whos mistaken for a woman and captured by them.
They find out, and instead of killing him, basically decide that he's literally just a mentally ill tranny, so he gets to live.
Wierd thing is that thier society treats the mentally ill with a form of respect because they think crazy people have looked upon the face of god, and thats why they're crazy
Its more Weis and Hickman garbage, but again, pretty entertaining to read

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Earlier this year I read The Recognitions and now I'm watching The Young Pope. Faith kino pairing of the highest order

I don't read much genre fiction but I enjoyed Snowcrash and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.

I've only read one book in 2019 so far

sex gifs

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>The difference comes when the ball is hit. Then nothing is the same. The men are moving, coming out of their crouches, and everything submits to the pebble-skip of the ball, to rotations and backspins and airstreams. There are drag coefficients. There are trailing vortices. There are things that apply unrepeatably, muscle memory and pumping blood and jots of dust, the narrative that lives in the spaces of the official play-by-play.
>I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale.

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neuromancer is so damn good and I wish it would get a film adaptation

Rate me bros

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Kek. Well done

nice

>sci fi shit
miss me with that gay shit

It had enough interesting things that I won't fault you for it.

what ever you do dont read The Deed of Paksenarrion.
starts as a pure virginal maid farm girl who blushes as even the mention of sex, becomes a mercenary and then a paladin for her god. ends with getting gang raped by orcs so an evil cult can corrupt a paladin. complete 180, not even joking, from whats essentially a female focused childrens fantasy series to that, what was the author thinking

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TOTAL HACKSHELF LMAO

>HER CUNT BECAME THE WORLD
BRAVO GURM

Radiance has a kino fight scene at the end, haven't read steel heart

Yeah Radiance is absolutely fantastic, I have to pace myself with the Way of Kings series or I'll get sucked into them until I finish.

Steelheart was a one-night read and it was solid, characters were pretty thin but the world building was top notch.

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barely read anything this year

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nothings hotter than a baby headed raven jerking of a face shifting rape monster whilst an Aryan uber chad cucks an entire religion

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That was my favorite Murakami novel for a long time (I read Colorless Tsukuru a while back and I think I liked it more). I don't know why everyone says Kafka on the Shore is his best/the one you should start with.

What does everyone think about this novel in 3 parts right here?

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Study in Emerald is already in Shadows over Baker Street you pleb.

Yeah I grabbed a graphic novel version of Study in Emerald and ended up liking Sherlock + Lovecraftian horror mash-up so much I read the entire thing.

what?

How's Mishima? I read Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea and found it illogically depressing (ie: the characters go out of their way to be stupid in order to make the story depressing) and didn't get much enjoyment out of it. I was curious as to whether this was just in the one work or if his general style works that way.

prince of nothing

After years of not reading absolutely anything, I've started reading the house of leaves. It seems kino so far

BASED AND NEOCRUSADE PILLED

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Ah my mistake, I retract my previous accusation.
There's another collection called 'The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' that is another anthology of Holmes stories that focus on different interpretations of the setting/canon. There are a couple of stories from Shadows Over Baker Street repeated, but also some more supernatural and sci-fi stuff. If that sounds like something you'd like, give it a try. I enjoyed both collections.

thats one beautiful looking book, average story but it does look gorgeous

Based user, I'll give it a shot thank you.

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Just avoid literally everything else by the author. Only Revolutions is a cute extended poem about two people in love on the road and The Familiar is pretentious trash I could barely get a hundred pages into. Fifty Year Sword is fine but ultimately unremarkable, not to mention very short.

House of Leaves is his only foray into horror and it works much better than any and all of his other works.

Some of his work tends to be pretty allegorical, with characters arcs meant to represent particular philosophical ideas as opposed to trying to replicate reality. The Sound of Waves is a pretty comfy read though, not like some of his more didactic work

Yes. Radio Free Albemuth. I know it got a low-budget indie movie a few years ago but I wish it would be faithfully adapted by a big studio, it's one of my favourite Philip K. Dick stories. Imagining that 50s-70s setting brought to life with the kind of style that Fargo Season 2 did it, crossed with alternate history Cold War-esque espionage paranoia, it'd be pretty kino imo.

i used to read lots of books but they couldnt help me pass a job interview

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Finished up with Zero K and I feel mixed. My first Delillo. The plot felt a bit obscured so I had to work a bit to see what Don was trying to say but it felt he wanted me to ponder on the smaller, more intimate things and I cant say I was too impressed by that. Given the premise, the second part really seems to skimp out on the grandiose structure of just how much impact such technology would cause. Feels like Delillo himself is unsure. Have to think about this one some more.
Also started reading two Pynchon books (Bleeding Edge and V) simultaneously. I seem to like BE much more then V because the prose feels more realized and not as spastic and all over the place like V. The main character Maxine is a lot like Marge Simpson. V is a great debut I won't lie, some passages are absolutely gorgeous but Pinceone seems to have a better handle on the emotional aspects with BE. I dunno V seems a bit too immature. Really excited for AtD and M&D, sampled a few pages and I loved it all.
Also reading The Bridge of San Luis Ray as a palette cleasner. Will read some fantasy after I'm finished.

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Books are gay. Fact.

I read LOTR and The Silmarillion

Reading Warbreaker by Sanderson. Really don't know why I love the book but just never read it.

Thinking about skipping it and going for Words of Radiance

yes, i read ubik, honestly the only book that ever scared me, fucking terrifying

i really liked Warbreaker, one of his best. would make a great 10 episode show, especially with the magic playing with everythings colour

Recently finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, currently rereading Hadji Murat and Wilde's Collected Short Stories

READ MAO II ITS THE MOST META DELILLO

ABOSLUTELY DELILLOIAN

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Reading Neuromancer. A few chapters in and I'm surprised at how plain it is. But since it's "le ebin sci fi XDDDD" people fawn over it. I'm hoping for some actual literary techniques somewhere instead of pleb genre pandering.

Such as? And what makes it for adults? I read for entertainment, I ain't interested in strictly philosophical drivel from hundreds of idiots.

If you liked Clarke then you should try Childhood's End. Pretty short, but really interesting and weird.

Yeah I should hunker down and just read it. I keep putting it off to the weekend but then I get busy

I wish Sanderson got more credit for his female characters. Siri in this, Shallan in Way of Kings and Vin in the Mistborn trilogy are all strong female characters written well (aka personality and weaknesses)

it was one of if not the first cyberpunk novel. go read Asimov, they're also pretty bland but for their time it was a starry eyed view into the future. theres a really cute google maps passage in one of the foundation books thats laughable for us living today

Absolutely based.

I've been reading pic related. It's my first SW book and I'm enjoying it, the EU is actually pretty cool.

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i wouldn't call that hard sci-fi. interesting read though

>cyberpunk XDDD
So genrepandering. Literally just being a genre is enough to please pleb retards like you.

Yes, I read "one of us is lying." It's pretty good.

>genrepandering
so everything every written or made then. good job fuckwit