3 Years of Service
There are about 17 more books in the Dune series. They are written by Frank's son. Two of them are sequels and the rest are prequels.
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2 Years of Service
My favorite Sci-Fi fantasy series is hands down J.S Morin with his Black Ocean Chronicle and Mercy for Hire
The Sci-Fi that ruined me for all soft sci-fi is The Honor Harrington Series by David Weber.
For the crowd here, let me suggest "All the Ugly and Wonderful Things."
The Sci-Fi that ruined me for all soft sci-fi is The Honor Harrington Series by David Weber.
For the crowd here, let me suggest "All the Ugly and Wonderful Things."
2 Years of Service
No there are not.
I don't care if you do have pictures and ISBN numbers, I've decided they don't exist.
(Joking aside, I know, I read a number of them when I was younger and they start mediocre and degenerate into execrable. Which shouldn't be a surprise given the involvement of Kevin J "you know what Star Wars needs, more Death Stars x3" Anderson.)
I just read the first book in the series recently and loved it, I've been on the lookout for copies of the next ones.
1 Year of Service
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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1 Year of Service
I studied Russian in college, so I've read a lot of the Russian classics. There's honestly too many books to recommend, so I'll just give a quick list.
War and Peace is peak, I swear. Yeah it's long, but it's long because there's always stuff happening, it's packed with plot. Seriously, read it, it's worth it. There are few characters that I can relate with like Andrei.
Nabokov is an incredible author. Lolita is an amazing book (not beating the allegations), but his real masterpiece is Pale Fire. I also really like his book Invitation to a Beheading. He plays with meta-fiction, the role of the author vs. the characters, symmetry in narratives, and all sorts of wild stuff.
Turgenev is also worth checking out for his mastery of sappy romance. Fathers and Sons and First Love are two of my favorites.
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is a classic that is the default favorite book of people who can't think of a favorite book.
As for sci-fi, the Strugatsky brothers wrote a bunch of classics. Of note is Roadside Picnic, which was the inspiration for the Stalker video games, definitely worth a read.
War and Peace is peak, I swear. Yeah it's long, but it's long because there's always stuff happening, it's packed with plot. Seriously, read it, it's worth it. There are few characters that I can relate with like Andrei.
Nabokov is an incredible author. Lolita is an amazing book (not beating the allegations), but his real masterpiece is Pale Fire. I also really like his book Invitation to a Beheading. He plays with meta-fiction, the role of the author vs. the characters, symmetry in narratives, and all sorts of wild stuff.
Turgenev is also worth checking out for his mastery of sappy romance. Fathers and Sons and First Love are two of my favorites.
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is a classic that is the default favorite book of people who can't think of a favorite book.
As for sci-fi, the Strugatsky brothers wrote a bunch of classics. Of note is Roadside Picnic, which was the inspiration for the Stalker video games, definitely worth a read.
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I've been reading garbage lately (audiobooks but I call it reading)
Trailer Park Elves has been fun, very silly and litRPG style with a videogame subplot. Some well written sex scenes that come as more of a climax which was nicer than page 2 WE FUCK kinda stuff
"Real" books? Brandon Sanderson has been a huge amount of my time lately. Didn't love the last one in the series but I think it was a solid ending for the first five books. Oathbringer was and is easily my favorite of the Stormlight Archives.
I'd recommend Stormlight for Epic fans because of the length and overall story paths. Though 5 is a bit of a midpoint and there has been some discussion on his editor changing... I think his books have been worth the effort to read and wait. If you don't need an epic, his Mistborn stuff is amazing! YA Heist stuff at first and then it gets a bit wackier. I love the lore connection between the first era and the second. I never knew I needed that kinda lore connection until I got it and now I want it in every series that I read lol. (dont wanna fully spoil it). Era 2 has some of my favorite Sanderson characters.... from love interest to sidekick / bestfriend... I'd love to be friends with everyone in the book and I'll fight the MC for his wife (Cosmere Best Girl) (again don't need to spoil lol)
I'd also recommend Herald of Shalia for a smutty book. First one is pretty standard fare, elves are sluts and MC is a bigdicked god... Though the univerese is hilarious (Elves are seen as ugly lmao). The later books really bring more humor and more interesting story as the MC tries to build a nation for his naughty elves to live in lmao...
That being said... If you can handle Demon Futa Rape... I'd Highly... HIGHLY recommend Everybody Loves Large Chests series... HOLY shit. I started it for a goofy smut read and now im waiting for the next release and don't give a shit about the lewd stuff. It's still there but its been toned down and honestly for the better. Neven Iliev has created a very interesting world with really fun characters... it helps on Audiobook since there is a large cast for an audiobook, multiple female readers alongside the male reader MC. This is a tough one to recommend only because I have to explain about the demon futa rape that happens a lot in the first few books / first book. LOL
I'm also reading a lot of Drew Hayes. He makes great characters and I'm on his third "Damaged Detective" series book. Basically a guy gets drugged with an "enhancement" drug and to cope with the effects he believes hes Sherlock Holmes's decendant. The Perspective is that of his bodyguard / secret agent who was tasked with protecting him in transit (obviously they hit it off as friends or else they wouldn't have multple books!).
He's also got multiple series which are fun, A Vampire Accountant... NPC characters in an RPG as the perspective characters (NPCs is the title lol), Supervillian story... He's good at characters imo and each new series offers new characters
Dennis E Taylor for my current Sci Fi reading. Bobeverse, a series about a Von-Neumman Probe sent off earth... BOOOOOOB (Long O, Bob not boob lmao)
Trailer Park Elves has been fun, very silly and litRPG style with a videogame subplot. Some well written sex scenes that come as more of a climax which was nicer than page 2 WE FUCK kinda stuff
"Real" books? Brandon Sanderson has been a huge amount of my time lately. Didn't love the last one in the series but I think it was a solid ending for the first five books. Oathbringer was and is easily my favorite of the Stormlight Archives.
I'd recommend Stormlight for Epic fans because of the length and overall story paths. Though 5 is a bit of a midpoint and there has been some discussion on his editor changing... I think his books have been worth the effort to read and wait. If you don't need an epic, his Mistborn stuff is amazing! YA Heist stuff at first and then it gets a bit wackier. I love the lore connection between the first era and the second. I never knew I needed that kinda lore connection until I got it and now I want it in every series that I read lol. (dont wanna fully spoil it). Era 2 has some of my favorite Sanderson characters.... from love interest to sidekick / bestfriend... I'd love to be friends with everyone in the book and I'll fight the MC for his wife (Cosmere Best Girl) (again don't need to spoil lol)
I'd also recommend Herald of Shalia for a smutty book. First one is pretty standard fare, elves are sluts and MC is a bigdicked god... Though the univerese is hilarious (Elves are seen as ugly lmao). The later books really bring more humor and more interesting story as the MC tries to build a nation for his naughty elves to live in lmao...
That being said... If you can handle Demon Futa Rape... I'd Highly... HIGHLY recommend Everybody Loves Large Chests series... HOLY shit. I started it for a goofy smut read and now im waiting for the next release and don't give a shit about the lewd stuff. It's still there but its been toned down and honestly for the better. Neven Iliev has created a very interesting world with really fun characters... it helps on Audiobook since there is a large cast for an audiobook, multiple female readers alongside the male reader MC. This is a tough one to recommend only because I have to explain about the demon futa rape that happens a lot in the first few books / first book. LOL
I'm also reading a lot of Drew Hayes. He makes great characters and I'm on his third "Damaged Detective" series book. Basically a guy gets drugged with an "enhancement" drug and to cope with the effects he believes hes Sherlock Holmes's decendant. The Perspective is that of his bodyguard / secret agent who was tasked with protecting him in transit (obviously they hit it off as friends or else they wouldn't have multple books!).
He's also got multiple series which are fun, A Vampire Accountant... NPC characters in an RPG as the perspective characters (NPCs is the title lol), Supervillian story... He's good at characters imo and each new series offers new characters
Dennis E Taylor for my current Sci Fi reading. Bobeverse, a series about a Von-Neumman Probe sent off earth... BOOOOOOB (Long O, Bob not boob lmao)
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my new favorite is A Dead-End Job by Justin Alcala
3 Years of Service
For me is The Stand by Stephen King. God I love that book, from the setting to the caracters.
2 Years of Service
The Book of Lost tales Volumes 1 and 2. The Lays of Beleriand. The Silmarillion. All by J.R.R. Tolkien. I haven't read any of these in ages, the Jackson films and all the popular culture surrounding them and the Hobbit trilogy kind of burned me out on Tolkien. Long before the atrocious Rings of Power was even a gleam in the eye of Bezos.
I do so adore the Lord of the Rings it's a book I used to read once a year. I don't care what the critics say about Tolkien, I like his songs and poetry.
I do so adore the Lord of the Rings it's a book I used to read once a year. I don't care what the critics say about Tolkien, I like his songs and poetry.
11 Months of Service
L.A. Quartet series by James Ellroy -- a masterpiece of noir crime stories.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
2 Years of Service
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Crazy scifi/comedy/fever dream/acid trip written by 2 Playboy editors, based off of letters they would get about conspiracy theories
Also, Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, a pseudo sequel
Crazy scifi/comedy/fever dream/acid trip written by 2 Playboy editors, based off of letters they would get about conspiracy theories
Also, Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, a pseudo sequel
2 Years of Service
Reverend insanity and God of fishingAfter my thread about favourite poems got some traction, I'm now interested in book recommendations. So please share your favourite novels. Can be lewd, but don't have to be.
I'm quite mainstream. My absolute favourite novel of all time is "The Lord of the Rings" by Tolkien!
Followed by "Winnie the Pooh", by Milne
And "Persuasion" by Jane Austen - now that novel actually is lewd, if you consider the time when it was written. She heavily implies an incestuous relationship between a baronet and his daughter, who 'succeeded her mother's duties and rights in all respects'.
1 Year of Service
Robin Hobb`s Farseer trilogy ,Tawny Man trilogy and Fitz and the Fool trilogy.
Antony Ryan`s Raven`s Shadow , Raven`s Blade and The Covenant Of Steel series
Jack Carr`s Terminal List series
Joshua T. Calvert`s The Last Battleship series
Andrzej Sapkowski`s Witcher
and everything from Tolkien.
Antony Ryan`s Raven`s Shadow , Raven`s Blade and The Covenant Of Steel series
Jack Carr`s Terminal List series
Joshua T. Calvert`s The Last Battleship series
Andrzej Sapkowski`s Witcher
and everything from Tolkien.
10 Months of Service
Books, this is my shit. I've got a huge love for Sci-Fi and Fantasy, so if I had to name some greatest hits:
1) The Expanse series: book 1 being Leviathan wakes. In solar system space Sci-Fi, maintains a 'damn space you are fucking scary' attitude to the void throughout imo, with a happy helping of ship battles, mystery, and something else special.
2) The Unincorporated Man series, named for it's first entry. Few centuries from now, everyone is treated like a corporation, you can buy stocks on folks, sell, etc. Everyone dreams of being able to own themselves amongst navigating a solar system ran by mega corporations. Enter Justin Cord, the man from a few centuries ago, reawakened from cryo, cancer fixed, and he does not want to incorporate as tradition holds.
3) The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross: Magic is real, and modern life has made that fact even more prevalent. All that chanting, the pentacles, the energy, a computer and a power grid connection can make most of it work just fine at the cost of catching the many eyes of Eldritch horrors out in the multiverse who'd like nothing to suck up all our souls. Enter Bob Howard, IT professional for Her Majesty's Occult Service The Laundry, forced to join because he got dangerously close to creating a city leveling incursion. Bob finds it all mundane really until he, in his boredom between meetings and committees on what cabling and software is allowed from what suppliers signed up for active field service.
1) The Expanse series: book 1 being Leviathan wakes. In solar system space Sci-Fi, maintains a 'damn space you are fucking scary' attitude to the void throughout imo, with a happy helping of ship battles, mystery, and something else special.
2) The Unincorporated Man series, named for it's first entry. Few centuries from now, everyone is treated like a corporation, you can buy stocks on folks, sell, etc. Everyone dreams of being able to own themselves amongst navigating a solar system ran by mega corporations. Enter Justin Cord, the man from a few centuries ago, reawakened from cryo, cancer fixed, and he does not want to incorporate as tradition holds.
3) The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross: Magic is real, and modern life has made that fact even more prevalent. All that chanting, the pentacles, the energy, a computer and a power grid connection can make most of it work just fine at the cost of catching the many eyes of Eldritch horrors out in the multiverse who'd like nothing to suck up all our souls. Enter Bob Howard, IT professional for Her Majesty's Occult Service The Laundry, forced to join because he got dangerously close to creating a city leveling incursion. Bob finds it all mundane really until he, in his boredom between meetings and committees on what cabling and software is allowed from what suppliers signed up for active field service.
9 Months of Service
History:
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan, who did the History of Rome podcast. About the period leading up to the end of the Roman Republic.
Science/Space:
A City on Mars by Zach and Kelley Weinersmith. A cartoonist and a biologist decide to write a book about space colonization. They have a lot of questions about various problems, but the space community surely has answers, right? ....right?
Fantasy:
The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust. Humans don't get treated well in the elven[1] empire, so an ambitious young man doesn't have many options except to join the fantasy-mafia and become an assassin.
[1] They are referred to as 'elves' maybe one time in the books; living in their homeland they call themselves "human" and humans "Easterners", but you know what a tall, magical person who can live for thousands of years is, right?
Science Fiction:
Second Genesis and its sequel Genesis Quest by Daniel Moffitt. A hugely ambitious science fiction duology from the 1980s that you've never heard of. It starts with aliens in a distant galaxy recreating the human race based on a radio transmission of the human genetic code plus a small cultural package, and expands into a quest millions of years long to find out what has become of Original Man. Go grab it off kindle!
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan, who did the History of Rome podcast. About the period leading up to the end of the Roman Republic.
Science/Space:
A City on Mars by Zach and Kelley Weinersmith. A cartoonist and a biologist decide to write a book about space colonization. They have a lot of questions about various problems, but the space community surely has answers, right? ....right?
Fantasy:
The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust. Humans don't get treated well in the elven[1] empire, so an ambitious young man doesn't have many options except to join the fantasy-mafia and become an assassin.
[1] They are referred to as 'elves' maybe one time in the books; living in their homeland they call themselves "human" and humans "Easterners", but you know what a tall, magical person who can live for thousands of years is, right?
Science Fiction:
Second Genesis and its sequel Genesis Quest by Daniel Moffitt. A hugely ambitious science fiction duology from the 1980s that you've never heard of. It starts with aliens in a distant galaxy recreating the human race based on a radio transmission of the human genetic code plus a small cultural package, and expands into a quest millions of years long to find out what has become of Original Man. Go grab it off kindle!
2 Years of Service
Robert A Heinlen a prophet of sci fi who got done wrong by Hollyweird, "Starship Troopers" was a masterpiece of future sociology and social trending with an insightful military prediction.
S King, fuckhead that he is wrote "Running Man" under "Richard Bachman" as a pseudonym and it was amazing, also "The long walk" is currently in production as a movie, amazing novella set in a future, now in our past.
S King, fuckhead that he is wrote "Running Man" under "Richard Bachman" as a pseudonym and it was amazing, also "The long walk" is currently in production as a movie, amazing novella set in a future, now in our past.
2 Years of Service
I loved the sword of truth series. I was disappointed by the way they handled some aspects of the tv adaptation. I also really like a lot of the RA Salvatore series, especially the Cleric Quintet.
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