As the title says- I just got laid off for the 3rd time in 3 years (biotech y'all). I'm in a terrible place. I'd love to completely disengage with something super frivolous (e.g. I've read and enjoyed a bunch of Emily Henry) or something way too epic (I enjoyed Red Rising and Dune, and have read most of the commonly suggested fantasy (and romance+fantasy) series – LOTR, Sanderson, Malazan, Robin Hobb, etc).
Please help me get over this hump so I can back in gear to attempt to go through the motions of job searching yet again.
by IdoScienceSometimes
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Reamde by Neal Stephenson should keep you occupied for a while.
For comedy/sci-fi, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
For epic sci-fi, Hyperion by Dan Simmons
My condolences!
Carsten Jensen – [*We, the Drowned*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7988467-we-the-drowned “Goodreads synopsis”)
There are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, devastating tragedies, and miraculous survivals.
Amor Towles – [*A Gentleman in Moscow*](https://www.amortowles.com/a-gentleman-in-moscow-about-the-book/#:~:text=A%20transporting%20novel%20about%20a%20man%20who,of%20his%20life%20inside%20a%20luxury%20hotel., “Amor Towles website.”)
“A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.”
How about kind of epic AND silly? Last Call At The Nightshade Lounge is not an especially popular book, probably because the foundational premise of the plot is laughable, but if you can suspend disbelief, I liked it a lot!
If you’re looking more for a LOTR type scope, you could also pick up A Plague Of Giants by Kevin Hearne, a vast epic that’s still somehow kind of cozy, with a really unique plot.