Ideally maybe like a sci fi or fantasy novel with thrilling adventure, vivid action and clever politics (not game of thrones or anything drowning in cynicism please) but I'm open to any kind of recommendation, like a good literature novel or something nonfiction about history maybe if you can convince me that it's a good read.
It's either this or leveling in Fortnite to earn the Peter Griffin skin, help me engage in an adult pastime for once, rDrama.
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Here's the list so far based on your recommendations
Stranger in a strange land
Notes from Underground
Shadow & Claw: the first half of The Book of the New Sun
Musicophilia
The Metaphysical Club
The three body problem
Les Miserable
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Wheel of time
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The word to content
ratio puts foids 
to shame.
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cartel smuggler found
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I'm reading "Notes from Underground" right now and it's eerie how similarly the main character thinks as me. I strongly recommend it to any other mentally fricked up !Christians.
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I recently looked through Algebra: Notes
from the Underground by Paolo Aluffi. A strange 
adjacency.
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What's this about and who's it by?
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It's by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the translation I have has the recommendation of a Catholic bishop on the back. As of where I'm at right now, it's this utterly fricked up "we live in a society" type guy sitting in his apartment in St. Petersburg talking about the un-meaning of life. I just finished part 1, presumably part 2 is where the "why everything this guy says is wrong" comes in.
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Is it better than Crime and Punishment because I hated that book?
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Some say it's better some most would say it's worse. If you hated crime and punishment you'll probably hate all Dostoevsky. Or maybe you read a shit translation idk
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Idk
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I want to put this on the list but the list is already so long. I assume it's a pretty long/dense read?
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It's like 100 pages, it was published in a magazine.
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In that case I'm slotting it in at #2, you hooked me with the Christian angle
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Pretty much eveything by dostoevski has Christian themes. His most famous books are pretty long tho if you're not an habitual reader
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Yeah I'm not looking to get into anything that heavy but I can do 100 pages
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Have you read Dune yet?
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I read the first book and enjoyed it, started reading the second book and thought it was dumb so I stopped (I couldn't buy that gigagenius Paul didn't know his wife was being poisoned)
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I wouldn't bother with anything but the first book either
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Enders game series
or the pawn of prophecy series 
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What's the pawn of prophecy series about and who's it by?
I've read enders game but I've never read like xenocide or any of that trilogy so I could put those on the list
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found the incel
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Why, because I've read enders game, or because I haven't read xenocide?
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It's about a post god living
amongst mortals earth. Like if lord of the rings 
was actually 
really 
really 
good
It's by David
Eddings
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Enders Shadow is better than Enders Game. Read it first.
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I've read the bean books, I think they're okay.
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Ya, I agree.
After the first book, the rest of the Bean series gets really geopolitical, then weird.
The Ender Series is definitely better than the rest of the Bean Series. I just happen to prefer Enders Shadow to Enders Game.
Enders series is more of classic sci-fi moral exploration involving very well developed (by the author) sentient species/beings/civilizations, and is much stronger.
Overall, you really feel the main character driving the themes of the books. Bean's series turns into a thriller with a cold calculating genius battling and outsmarting his enemies. Enders series is more thoughtful and emotional, reflecting Enders grief and search for redemption as he finally starts to engage with society again (human and alien).
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I fricking hate Ender's Game
It's not even that bad a book, it's just that every turboneurodivergent reads it and comes away thinking he's a special hero who will save the world, not understanding that Ender is a smug little baby sociopath
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Book of the New Sun
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Need to read this
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its good
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What's it about and who's it by?
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Gene Wolfe, the less you know about it going in the better tbh.
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This sounds metal as frick from the blurb.
I got talked into reading stranger in a strange land but once I finish that I'll definitely read this.
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its crazy bro you won't regret it
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Fortnite 100%
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Do you like cats? Read The Aeronauts Windlass.
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Superfudge
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First Hyperion book is good, Dune might be more accessible
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I've read book 1 of dune but thought the start of book 2 was stupid so I never continued with the series. What's Hyperion about and who's it by?
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the sequels were so bad. even the first one, the concept is much better than its execution. simmons cant write and the wooey newage shit he veers into is insufferable. i do like the scifi/poetry angle though. i think i liked ilium/olympos better as far as that goes
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Yeah he's awful at delivering the goods
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Musicophilia my Oliver Sacks
It's a very well written book about his many neurology patients, specifically the ones that had interesting
stories with music, from Alzheimer's patients who couldn't remember their names but could still okay beautifully complex music, to the famous 
man who got hit by lightning 
while in a phone 
booth and ended up leaving his life to pursue a career as a professional 
orchestra pianist, despite 
never 
touching a piano before 
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You've sold me, this is on the list after New Sun
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He was also gay
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I won't hold that against him. Does he talk about sucking peepees in the book or anything?
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No he was in the closet
until many years after he wrote most of the books, I don't think 
he talks about personal stuff almost at all tbh
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Frick that Peter griffin skin.
I liked The Forever War
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What's the forever war about and who's it by?
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Joel Haldeman
It's a sci-fi book about a war with aliens. The big thing is it takes centuries to travel from one spot to another and they do it by some time skip thing. So a ship will arrive to fight centuries later and all the tech and stuff has changed. There's no way to communicate during the skip/jump, but the people don't age. It's interesting
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It's a clear allegory for the Vietnam war, considering it was published in 73. But it stands up well as just a story
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Keep yourself safe
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Heinlein - Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers (nothing like the movie)
Nivens/Pournell - The Mote in Gods Eye
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Read Jack Vance stuff, he's very good.
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Fallout Equestria
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The Book of the New Sun, a very well-written, contemplative science fantasy about a torturer who becomes a messianic figure
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Foundation
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For fantasy I would say Lies of Locke Lamora, The Name of the Wind, The Witcher(slow but good), and The Way of Kings are good choices, not to cynical or silly. As for literature I would recommend Paradise Lost, the Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Odyssey or Iliad, or the Aeneid. History is hard to recommend unless your interested in history, I would recommend watching a few YouTube videos about random historical periods or wars and base your book choice of what seems the most interesting from that, good channels for this would be Historia Civilis, History Marche, and Epic History TV.
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The Good Book: The True Story
of Y'All https://a.co/d/2NX4BxW
Jit
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Lol, so much for that
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The Accursed Kings series by Maurice Druon. It's historical fiction set around the 14th century French royal family, the Avignon pope, and some Italian merchants. It largely adapts actual history, but always goes with the most scandalous/ridiculous historical account. It's a bit silly at times and the schemes are a bit simple, but that's because it's based on real events. Robert of Artois is a giga chad. 6 of the 7 books are worth reading.
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My Little
Pony: Pinkie Pie's Parties Storybook
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Riftwar Saga. If you like it you can expand into the entire Midkemia universe from Feist.
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Have you read Snow Crash? Prophetic near-future dystopia that half of the Valley is trying to make come true.
I loved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell which is like whimsical light fantasy about magicians. If you want something historical, Devil in the White City is a great read (takes place at the World's Fair in Chicago, hometown of rdrama.net)
In terms of more litfic, I liked Normal People and Either/Or, and I will always, always shill for My Brilliant Friend, but all of those might be more girly picks (although I really think the Neapolitan Novels should be read by everyone)
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Neuromancer
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The Turner Diaries
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin if you like russian lit
Anathem by Neal Stephenson if you don't
these are both sort of monk sci-fi fantasy fiction, one is heavier on fantasy than the other. One is more heavy on sci-fi than the other. Both have underlying politics
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You should try the three body problem. It's a good series (not fantasy)
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Who's it by and what's it about?
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Liu Cixin is the author. It has very novel aliens, questions about whether terrestrial life should be considered worthwhile, an interesting answer to the Fermi Paradox, the Cultural Revolution,preparations for invasion by a technologically superior species and two sequels that are actually novel enough to stay compelling. Carp got me to check out the sequels and they were probably some of my favorite books I read this year
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it's AMAZING and has an ending that will stick with you for days
@Klenny
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1 is like largely about math and china and stuff and takes place over a few decades and mostly just sets the stage for whats to come
2 is predominantly earth-focused and super interesting and spans a few hundred years
3 isuniversal and deals with eternity and is fricking NUTS
the trilogy is fascinating and some of the most compelling stuff ive ever read
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I'm slotting this in at 5th
Stranger in a strange land
Shadow & Claw: the first half of The Book of the New Sun
Musicophilia
The Metaphysical Club
This
Les Miserable
I may bump this higher if I get bored of the two nonfiction books
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This sounds interesting, it's on the list
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Small Gods
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I've already read every Terry Pratchett novel enough to have worn out multiple copies of some of them, but I would never pass by a recommendation of small gods without giving my love for Terry
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Hero of Two Worlds - History nonfic about Lafayette
Aubrey/Maturin Series - what Master and Commander was based on
The Left Hand of Darkness - cool sci-fi book about what actual gender fluidity would look like
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Hero and Maturin are tentatively on the list but might get bumped for something better
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Spin - Robert Charles Wilson - scientists rush to understand the reason why two alien devices have trapped earth and made the stars disappear (Hugo & Nebula Winner).
Flood - Stephen Baxter - Earth's oceans are rising much faster than ever predicted and governments attempt to implement three plans to save humanity.
The Blackcollar - Timothy Zahn - a resistance cell operative joins an undercover mission to reawaken an elite cadre of special forces with the goal of turning the tide in the fight to take back Earth from alien invaders.
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The Northern Caves by nostalgebraist. It's relatively short (3-5 hours depending on your reading speed) and VERY awesome.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/3659997/chapters/8088522
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Blood Meridian
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frick you karen. if you cared so fricking much why didnt you speak up when it was happening? frick this finger wagging bull shit. and frick you for implying that only new witches would want to do something like this. theres always a downside to weather magic but im NOT gunna hesitate to help when people and animals are fricking DIEING.
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