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You're not really allowed to comment on books if you exclusively read shit books FFS
Ask for recommendations online and you get pretentious wanky answers too
No, 1984 is outdated and boring, and a coffee table book. You want -
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of A Window And Disappeared
A Man Called Ove (Anxious People too)
A Man With One Of Those Faces
The Echo Chamber
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
The Girl With All The Gifts
Hard Landing
The Idiot's Club
All modern and absolutely beautiful
To be fair: I am currently reading "how high we go in the dark" by Sequoia Namamatsu. It's so sad. It's speculative fiction, but everything is too real and too sad.
Being an adult means also confrontation with sad topics
True, but I promise you'll get enough of that from real life after half a dozen decades
Read something lighthearted, life has enough drama
Fuck yeah!
Well I have 4 decades already and I've read a lot of books. Light and heavy. Because that's what life and art is about. I don't believe in comfort food all the time. Sometimes you just need the poetry of hardship.
Thanks, this is good. I've just started with the 100 year old guy and it's interesting (early days, though!).
The thing I've always hated is stories always revolve around conflict and (usually) people making terrible choices. Watching lessons in chemistry was mostly delightful because of this (must read that!)
I'd quite happily read lots of stuff that's just 'nice' and people being good. I'm sure I'd get tired of it eventually, but I'm sick of manufactured BS.
I'm quite aware I've grown up on lots of sci fi, so love me some world building and crazy ideas, but I'm starved for characters, broadly speaking...
Oo I'm not too into sci-fi but one of my favourites is The Breach by Patrick Lee
And yes, you should've read Lessons in Chemistry instead of watching the mediocre cash-grab, unfortunately
C'est la vie
Thanks!
I'm sure the story will be more than satisfying when I get to it. Swallowing the misogyny was bad enough the first time, though - yuck!