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Book recommendations???
| So, not necessarily stuff like House of Leaves, since for that you kinda need the physical book for the full experience, but stuff that tells stories that only really work in books that I don't need to be physically looking at
Or just anything good, I got nothing against that either, a good book is a good book regardless, but if what I said made something specific come to mind I'd love to hear about and it
| *about it
| I've been reading some Agatha Christie lately. Her stuff is great if you like mystery, and I'd expect renowned enough to have audiobook versions.
Terry Patchett's Discworld series is also a hard recommend if you at all like comedy or interesting fantasy worlds. Also if I recall has good audiobook versions.
If I'm to recommend any book though it'd be A Canticle for Leibowitz. Gotta be my favourite book I've ever read.
| Oh, I'm also quite fond of Kurt Vonnegut's work as well. It's probably not quite what you're thinking of, but he does an amusing thing in his book, Galapagos where he outright tells the reader that he is to place a star next to the name of every character who will die during the course of the story, and proceeds to indeed do so.
| I think I've been finding that the way books can convey things through the style of their narration sort of sets them apart from other narrative media. (While movies and so on can have narration, but it tends not to be to the extent that a book will.)
I don't think I can really convey what I mean too well, but the way a scene in a story is narrated can cause that scene to have a different feel to it or invoke different feelings. Though other media of course uses other techniques.
| >>1014196
Yeah, I agree. I'm looking for books that lean heavily into that. Some books just kinda feel like they're written to be, like, a movie, yk? But one of my favourite things in books is when they do stuff like what you mentioned about Galapagos, or just generally take full advantage of the strengths the medium has when it comes to narration, imagination, etc
Ty for all the recs g/u/rl <3
I'll go through them and put at least one or two of them on the list!!
| Crime and punishment
| On a lighter read if you like dark science fiction, shades children
| Anything by murakami, v popular one I missed out on and it's a love it or hate it type thing
| For fiction I recommend Stephen King's books, my fav is "Dallas '63". Also Ken Follett for fiction but in real historic setting, I loved his "The Eye of the Needle" about a spy and "The Man from St Petersburg", really amazing books. Both King and Follett have a lot of great books. Recently I started reading books about real events and can really recommend Nick Bilton's "American Kingpin", about famous darknet drug market.
| And if you're looking for something more read Der Prozess by Franz Kafka. It is quite of an experience, it makes you feel like you are in a weird dream.
| "Why Nations Fail" is a pretty interesting nonfiction read if you're into history and politics.
| if you're accepting nonfiction, then i'd like to recommend "How to Read a Book" by mortimer j. adler, i think that it's a pretty interesting (and illuminating, if at times dry) book on the aspects of reading
for fiction i quite enjoy akutagawa ryunosuke's stories, his most popular ones include "rashomon", "in the grove" and "hell screen", many of them can be read very quickly
| /u/ sometimes has book club threads so pop in
| I read "The Night Land, A Story Retold". It's the story published in 1912 but rewritten to make it readable and enjoyable to read. I got into it because I found pictures online of fanart done about it and I just had to know how a dude in the 1900s had such a crazy fantasy lol.
I recommend looking it up on google images just for the vibes.
And if you want more early 20th century dystopia try "Berge, Meere, und Giganten". Or just read the wiki summary at least. Bonkers creative shit
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it sucks that no one jumped on the idea that we'll pick the same book to read at the same time so we can pick a date in the future and discuss it
| The Sky Over Lima and Not Even The Dead, both by Juan Gómez Bárcena
| I've heard good things about how Neil Gaiman's books are narrated in audiobooks. American Gods is his best work but you can probably start with Anansi Boys or The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I didn't like Good Omens as much as I wanted, but it seems like it'll be excellent as audiobook.
| Blindsight
| Fallout Equestria
| Of Heroes and Graves, from Ernesto Sabato. Though I refuse to bear responsibility for your broken soul.
| Warhammer 40k has some great audiobooks, mostly self contained and not too long
| u thot i wuz guna rec a book?!?
NOPE!!! CHUCK TESTA!!! xDD
| There's too much stuff to respond to but I've been reading everything and tysm for all the recommendations g/u/rls <3
I'll have an amazing list to go through now!!
| Montmorency
| I just readed one best book, okay i was reading book why and there was this chapter with story in book you know here's how it went it was like a story
| The very hungry caterpillar
| Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
It's like reading in hard mode
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| I'm too scatter brained to read full books usually, but I'm currently trying out audiobooks and enjoying it so far (cheap and easier to stay focused)
I'd prefer books that don't necessarily have any (or at least not any on par) adaptations in other mediums since I'm very interested in learning more about the kinda things that only really work in books and understand more in-depth how they're unique as, like, an art form