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Hyperion is my favorite book!

 

recently finished This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman. Huge disappointment. It checked a lot of boxes off for me: AI, alien cultures, space-opera, cyberpunk, but just had bland characters with no one you felt compelled to root for or against. It tooke me 3 months to finally complete and threw me into a huge reading coma.

Started Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire to hopefully get me out of my reading coma and back in the swing of things

Also continuing my WoT read through with The Shadow Rising. I just really don't like this series, but my OCD wont let me not complete it.

Also about 73% through my year-long goal of reading War & Peace. love it but its just such a massive novel

 

finished Dubliners yesterday and I've been thinking about "The Dead" all day

 

i know that pain. I havent totally gone that far with selling my books, but I did decide to sell all of my mass-market paperbacks since they don't look as nice on the bookshelf

 

where have you been selling them? I have a ton of books I wouldn't mind letting go and could use a little cash

 

Love that book and especially that story. Now I wanna reread that one and try A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man again!

 

A local used bookstore that does cash or trade credit.

 

I wouldn't sell books. I wish I could sell clothes though.

 

Can you all give me some recommendations based on the following genres? All fiction please.

- Mystery ala The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, historical adventure/cult type stuff

- Science fiction

- Books on occult/cult stuff

 

To the first: Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Angel’s Game.

To the second: The Illuminae Files trilogy

 

Science a fiction: the expanse series

 

Should I read shadow of the wind first?

 

As it’s my favorite book not by Tolkien, yeah. But chronologically it happens second. So those two can be read in whichever order. The Prisoner of Heaven ties them together.

 

It was 100+ here yesterday so I just stayed inside and finished Sharp Objects. Loved it. Now onto the new Paul Tremblay book today!

 

I’m on the third book right now, but highly recommend the Rememberance of Earth’s Past series. The first book was very good but only got better with the second.

Oh, and Yiddish Policemen’s Union for the mystery part

 

The Outsider by Stephen King is great so far. About 1/3 through.

 

Seconding the sci fi recommendation for Rememberance of Earth's Past

 

started Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk today. really enjoying it so far

 

Really great book, loved it eventhough I didn't love the execution. Excited to check out The Word Is Murder soon

 

Anyone ever listened to Graphic Audio and would recommend one?

 

I’m not sure what graphic audio is but I’m all for audiobooks

 

About quarter of the way through Kavalier and Clay right now and it's wonderful so far.

 

For any sci fi fans in here, Hyperion by Dan Simmons is on sale for $2 on Kindle

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004G60EHS/?tag=absolutepunk-20

 

1. Shadow of the Wind

2. Hyperion Cantos

3. just realized i don't think I've read anything in that genre. H.P. Lovecraft maybe?

 

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