Recommend me books /tell me your favourite books thread

[Anonymous No.21313457]

Ok fellas here’s the deal. I’ve read a lot of history books and want to read fiction for once. Currently I’ve read 1 to 4 of the dune series, and while I throughly enjoy them I want a (short) break from the franchise. So can I please get some fiction novels recommended to me? I’ll read any genre other than YA novels. Pic rel. Is my favourite instalment atm

[Anonymous No.21313494]

the worm ouroboros

[Anonymous No.21313510]

You stopped at the perfect place with Dune, read no further.
I would recommend Blindsight and the sequel. If you're interested in cyberpunk go for the Sprawl trilogy. Ender's Game is fun, and some of the sequels are extremely good if the original catches your interest. Rendezvous with Rama is pretty neat. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress should be required reading for everybody, if only for the primer on insurgency cell structure.

[Anonymous No.21313540]

>>21313510
>you’ve stopped at the perfect place for dune
Really? Cause I’ve heard great things about the last two.

[Anonymous No.21313794]

>>21313540

[Anonymous No.21313831]

>>21313457
>Currently I’ve read 1 to 4 of the dune series
I don't believe you.

[Anonymous No.21313892]

>>21313831
ok you got me I'm 3/4th of the way through the 4th one but I need to plan ahead more

[Anonymous No.21313909]

>>21313794
lol thanks for this. I'm gonna read all 6 of them (I don't consider brians books part of the series)

[Anonymous No.21314272]

>>21313494
It’s shit

[Anonymous No.21314273]

>>21313457
Hyperion
Starship Troopers
Slaughterhouse Five
The Stars, My Destination
The Book of the New Sun
Endymion
The Book of the Long Sun
Dying Earth
Viriconium
The Book of the Short Sun
then stop reading sci-fi

[Anonymous No.21314352]

>>21313794
I consider myself a Dune fan. I read all books by Herbert, seen all tv adaptations, played every viseo game in this universe, and many tabletop ones. Dune inspires a lot of creative things I do. I love Dune. That being said, I would only ever recommend the first book, and I would do so for the setting, not for the story. Dune's setting is stellar and brilliant, but most characters never inspired particular interest in me, and those that did, were killed off.

Feyd deserved a better fate. Paul deserved a worse one.

[Anonymous No.21314359]

>>21314272
no u

[Anonymous No.21314389]

>>21314352
>I consider myself a Dune fan
Me too. I read book one and was hooked.
Read Messiah (maybe children, don't remember) and stopped. I'll just be a fan of the first one

[Anonymous No.21314451]

Finished dune in five days, couldn't get enough of it. Messiah is taking my a bit longer to get through

[Anonymous No.21315069]

>>21314451
Messiah get's better towards it's second half in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.21315320]

>>21314352
Feyd wouldn't change the course of humanity.

[Anonymous No.21315346]

>>21314352
>Feyd deserved a better fate.
I agree with that, but reading Messiah I grew to like Paul and feel bad for him. He was right to be pissed and distrustful of his mother.

[Anonymous No.21315668]

>>21313457
crichton is great for one offs, i recommend sphere and great train robbery.

[Anonymous No.21315677]

>>21313794
wish i would have known this. i read up to children of dune and stopped. that was over 10 years ago, so for me to read god emperor doesnt make sense i barely remember them. but i dont wanna read all 3 all over again

[Anonymous No.21315687]

>>21314273
This, emphasis on Gene Wolfe +
>2001
>Neuromancer
>Phllip K. Dick
>Greg Egan
>Virus, Komatsu

[Voluntary Fool No.21315863]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

[Anonymous No.21315925]

>>21313457
moby dick, its shit but you should read it.

[Anonymous No.21315967]

>>21315925
moby dick is shit to normies but if you're autistic it's basically the best book ever written.

it's a five chapter novella where the author spends 400+ pages making sure you understand everything perfectly first so you can experience the last chapter exactly as intended.