So I've been living off rereads. I can't seem to find good books.
I don't want to reread Agatha Christie anymore.
I don't like classics that much. Trollope seems to meander or talk politics. Dickens is too complex in Bleak House.
I don't like The Will of the Many.
This is the sketchy picture of me as a reader.
I hope you don't suggest too experimental and too hyper realist books.
Okay.
by Sarvesh79
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Ah crap. I like DCC and hate Crouch….
I’m out.
What are you rereading?
Considering you didn’t give any sort of genre that you would actually want to read…
Stephen King – it’s pulp horror where half the time the true horror is human relationships and not the monster at the end of the book
T. Kingfisher – genres vary, the Saint of ____ books are romantasy with a lot of “will they ever talk and bone down?” Other books from her don’t have that dynamic from what I’ve been led to understand.
Tolkien – just read The Hobbit and get over yourself.
Warhammer novels – maximalist space power fantasy, nobody is the good guy
William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying might scratch your classics itch while being accessible and frustrating at the same time
John Grisham – A Time To Kill is a page turner, I think, I read it in my teens
Hemingway – short journalistic writing, shorter novels are breezier and longer ones get more introspective
Get back to us after you can tell us what you like I guess
Try “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese.
Well hey, I didn’t like either of those either! I do like Ursula K. LeGuin and Barbara Kingsolver. The Silo trilogy is fun. The Border trilogy is a totally different kind of fun (excellent but depressing).
*Replay* by Ken Grimwood is kind of a better version of *Dark Matter*. A different take yet would be *A Short Walk Through a Wide World* by Douglas Westerbeke.
If you haven’t read them already, *Atonement*, *Cloud Atlas*, and *I Who Have Never Known Men* are totally worthy.
Here ya go!! These are all 5 stars, I get you.
The Dark Tower series (this is so good I’ve re read 3 times, not a fan of all Stephen King, this is his best)
Station Eleven
Lonesome Dove
The Road
Cutting For Stone
A Pale-Faced Lie
Middlesex
The Covenant of Water
Boy Swallows Universe
Sho-Gun
Robinson Crusoe
East of Eden
Crossroads
Hollywood Park
The Push
Klara and the Sun
Nothing To See Here
My Dark Vanessa
Knockemstiff
Circe
Educated: A Memoir
Heavy
The Girl With All the Gifts
Little Fires Everywhere
My Brilliant Friend and all four Neopolitan Novels
Americanah
Every Man Dies Alone
The Road
Never Let Me Go
Endurance