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Any recommendations for someone who never really read any books (other than school stuff) 👀

bully
this was acc meant for amy
caught in crossfire
w/e
What lyrics? Lore for server
cause we talk like once a week maybe about books
where did my msg go
let it be
fineee

Is there anywhere good to read books online for free?
Other than having an actual kindle
My ass still uses Wattpad…
legal or illegal
I don’t mind sailing the seas for good books
if you have amazon prime then i think you can read ‘free’ books on the amazon kindle app
Not everyone has anything to say about books and then it ends up being two to three people just talking
This way people can post links to books
And have somewhere to have recommendations
Ooo rly?

Oooooo
The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.
would've recommended zlib but that got sniped

zlib is just mirror of library genesis
ik where to find books but idk where to start... m
for now I'm just reading manga and manhwas
true true
How often to do people talk about cars
Yep same
If you want cola I’ll take your brilliant suggest, delete this thread and tell everyone to stop talking about books altogether
Cola, it’s nearly every day this week people have had conversations about books. It’s happened when general is mid conversation about something else, people are also talking about books in the same channel, confusing people. If you don’t like a thread about books don’t use it
So no one can talk about books ever again and stop the conversation it starts each time
We have been chatting about books pretty much everyday for at least a week to be fair
See I’m kinda the same, I read shit on Wattpad a lot but I’ve always been interested in reading like ACTUAL books… and I have ended up on booktok a lot…
So I think a thread is fine 
you guys have a place now where you can link recommendations, get these pinned for books
Picked these up today
Also any good site to read mangas? I used to read on mangafreak but the ads kinda unavoidable now
okay, thanks
I also recommend readera or moon reader for reading the books if you end up downloading any
I read on manganato
tachiyomi for phone
I just search it up and read where there are less ads
*mihon
mangadex is the go to for manga imo and comick for manhwa
Ooh a fellow tachiyomi user
Mangadex i find has a lot of non english translations
Bato is the origional
mangadex has scans whereas other websites only use jpegs
Anyone got any good recommendations for books with pictures? 
But they did a sweep and got rid of most stuff after the nsfw problem
Gernimo Stilton
doctor seuss is great i hear
For baby right? 
Ye… yeah.. 

well this book is for babies
Anyways I have no place being here so be good otherwise Marie and Amy will crunch you


I love when books have so many tbf in the series
My favourite book series of all time is morganville vampires
And there’s like 15 physical books in the series
😭🩵
To be fair
I asked and then the answer came to my head
XD
Yea i like when the edges line up nicely
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morganville_Vampires favourite series of ALL time
The Morganville Vampires is a series of young adult urban fantasy/vampire novels written by Rachel Caine. The novels feature Claire Danvers, a student at Texas Prairie University, and her housemates in the vampire-controlled city of Morganville, Texas. While the mayor of Morganville is human, the population co-exist with a group of vampires. Mor...
Hi

Damn are those 5 diff books
Yep
got it, long book
Yea I was thinking of his book child of god when I said it was short but blood meridian is better
*thread



Hyperbole and a halffff
it's a webcomic/blog posts?
Nope it's a book now
There's a second book after that I haven't read
I have the physical copy
ohh oki oki

Stormlight is an incredible series, but if you want character, Robin Hobb is the greatest author there is
Found interesting story and wanted to read the book/wattpad but it's in Malaysian I think 😭
learn malay
Tell gerald to translate
Uh no because that's a lot of work 
Sanderson collection 
Just saying, the Stormlight archive hardcovers could probably kill someone if dropped from high enough
Time to test out
Can’t tell if i like them or if they look extremely generic (GoT looks decent at least)
both could be true at the same time
okkkkkk holy moly
i finished the first book just last week
starting second
might need to get some physical copies as well
Yoooo home wrecker on that one book wtf
Is that to your eternity on the bottom right?
no
Oh my God vici has a silent voice you have tasteee
on this section i have dr stone, non non biyori, spy x family, silent voice and attack on titans
I still gotta watch Dr Stone 
What else did yoshitoki write?
silent voice and to your eternity
ah no its a glass
Hahaha
I was trying to figure out if u collected the 100wame series as well
gotcha gotcha
Good collection
Kageguri twin?
I didnt even know it was serialized in english
And damn that is nice
Behind the middle section
yeah i didnt know that too
I just realised it's glass
but ngl kageguri and twin is very good
well both girls in there are psychopath ngl
The main character outside of gambling
same
the guy in kakegurui?
yep i agree
or the pirate girl in the toilet

also how do you guys think about berserker?
i dont like it at all but people think its the best manga ever
Its one of those that are very highly acclaimed that i dont wanna read it hahah
Saving it for a rainy season
My friend is huge berserk fan
It's definitely a goated series but it's a bit niche? Despite how popular it is
At least to me
I did see a bit of the anime and the colour palette is very muted and muddy from what I remember
What horse
I only know puck and guts
i still have stomach pain when i remembered it...
I feel like I would like it if I gave it the time of day but it's so longgg
I dont read and i still know
ask your berserk fan
you will know

Oh no
i will send it to your dm
Hahaha
Did u show the panel or just descriptive
Panel
Thats unfortunate
I ask the same thing when i was first introduced to this from tv tropes
You found out from TV tropes 
That was certainly a strange rabbit hole to fall in
My maternity reading starts very soon
Q: If you could change one thing about one of your books what would you change and why?
A: Gene Wolfe, one of the great fantasy writers... he wrote a lot of great books but his classic was the The Shadow of the Torturer a four book trilogy uh so I sort of took a lesson from him there... But the thing I always envied about Gene, was a very practical thing, Gene as great as he was a part-time writer he had a full-time job as a editor for a technical magazine, Plant Engineering and they paid him a a nice salary to be editor of Plant Engineering and with that salary he bought his home and he sent his kids through college and he supported his family and then on weekends and nights he wrote his books... and he wrote all four books of the Torturer series before he showed one to anyone. He didn't submit them to an editor which is the way it usually did he didn't get a contract and a deadline he finished all four books.
Of course by the time he finished four (remember it was supposed to be a trilogy) by the time he finished the fourth book he was able to see the things in the first book that didn't really fit anymore where the book had drifted away where it had changed so he was able to go back and revise the first book and only when all four were finished did Gene submit the book and the series was bought and published.
I don't think I was alone in this I kind of envied him the freedom to do that but... I had no other salary I lived entirely on the money that my stories and books earned and those four books took him like six years or something I couldn't take six years off with no income I would have wound up homeless or something like that. But there is something very liberating from an artistic point of view if you don't have to worry, you know if you happen to inherit a huge trust fund or a castle or something like that and you can write your entire series without having to sell it without having to worry about deadlines that's something that that I would envy but I've never done that I never could done it even now but believe it or not believe it or not I am not taking all that time to write Winds of Winter just because I think I'm Gene Wolfe now, would love to have it finished years ago but yeah that's the big thing I think I would change.
o7 asoiaf
from a qna with grrm
o7
so the moral of the story is to get an actual job before becoming a writer?
moral of story, finish series before publishing
feel like it kind of confirms the thought that a lot of people have had that the longer TWOW has been built up the harder it is for grrm
and have a stable income while you are writing the series
and also audience reaction to stuff in earlier books makes him wish he hadnt written some stuff in
yeah that too
I hope that if he dies without finishing there’s no attempt to finish the story
Got the itch to read asoiaf again
Keep seeing quotes n shit on twitter
Stannis my true king
8/26 
So what ya all read?
popular instagram book recommendations 
i read cheesy romances but ive been trying to get into psychological horror type stuff
Such as?
I recently got a kindle for free from work, so any recoms of free books on there that are good I’ll take 
psychological horror ish books i was reading earthlings by sayaka murata
ngl idek if it counts as psych horror but i just couldnt read it past a certain point it was a bit fucked up
Hmm I don't use Kindle
But if i could recommend any book to read
It would be
Kingkiller chronicles
Can't say thats genre I ever showed interest in
trippy fucked up shit is coool sometimes
I did read
American gods earlier this year
And it was such a trip
Reading it felt like I was high as a kite
lmaoo
the next book i wanted to read is bunny by mona awad
ive heard good things abt it
i dont even know
Never read horror or romance books
But i did read one romance manga
And even me that isn't romantic type
Bawled my eyes out
Re:Life
humor, fairytale, dark comedy book genre on google
but apparently theres like a sex cult or smth idk
i read a few manga
easier for me to read them when its digital compared to physical books
but opposite if its a novel
ive heard good things abt it
I kinda gave up on romance in manga bcs
It usually has same tropes
Over and over
fair
ohhh the original ? im interested
Yeah cover was really pretty
Had to buy it for
Around 30 irc
30 euros
1 shelf left on my book case
ouch but def pretty
It's fine I have good paying job
Spending 30 is nothing compared to spending
100 on MTG
trueee
currently reading "No Longer Human"
I only read mangas
Heard of it but never read it
I recommend
i feel like i know that one but probably forgot
Ok yeah I do know thag one

Prices but too high imo
Thoughts on ACOTAR? Should i get it? 
i read the first book
and i absolutely hated it
it is twilight levels of good
all ive heard about acotar is ppl clowning on it
Horrible read
And it gets increasingly worse
Twilight is funny tho
Acotar is flaming trash idk why there's so many pple obsessed with it
Okay so I liked ACOTAR, I read it when I was 18 though, so a while ago. It’s a super easy read, fast to blitz through. Very romance centred. If you’re expecting high levels of complex story then it isn’t the place to go. But it was fun when I read it
ohhh damn
I have recommended it to people in reading slumps and it got them out of it because it’s fast and easy and if you just want a fun time then it can serve that need 
There’s a reason it’s insanely popular
Did it show my message twice??
one is Kirby and the other Pepe

I should clarify that the worse im talking about is the sequel books, i managed reading acotar halfway and it was alright but it just didn’t seem as good as people say and I was busy so I dropped it
That’s valid
I felt like the second book was better for me at least and the third was my least favourite

i just finished both
holy shit ive never been so bored
and ive read a lot of fantasy in my life, both in book form and fanfiction
and nothing of substance happens

same as me hating on sarah j mass
wheres most of my friends love her
still nothing comes close to my fav book
Name of the wind
throne of glass series was complete class
acotar
meh
good series just for entertainment but nothing else
but w throne of glass the first one is very mid but the world-building is exceptional
ive yet to read any rothfuss books
man name of the wind is so good
ever read Wheel of Time
or as a i call it brain tumor
those books are such headache to read
80% is pure mid, and then 20% absolute diamond
If I had to rank my top 3
Name of The Wind series
Farseer trilogy
Mistborn Era 2
Mistborn Era 1
planning to read again, read when i was very young so didnt have much impression
give me some fantasy stuff recommendations
im currently reading sunlit man
i have a backlog of few stuff
What if: Loki was worthy and full edition of sherlock holmes
no i didnt but heard good stuff about it
Master and margarita is a classic although it is more like realism fantasy
and socio-critical

my own personal fave fantasy author is Pratchett
Reaper man was so entertaining
and he just has a way of presenting stories and characters that just engages the reader so well
and goofy ahh
:guards:

even tho i love name of the wind most
Robin Hobb,
from farseer trilogy
ahh trueee
is just godlike in terms of writing
her*
ever read Vinland saga manga?
bruhhhh
keep forgetting and then i read a chapter
at least power through farmland arc
and then again in 2 months
i have no time to fully engage in diff media at the same time
like, i talked with my friends
every single one cried
at the end of gladiator
that or green mile
that is more psych side which i dont care for that much although still important
tbf i need to find some good books on romans
asterix and obelix

Aeneid no?
tho, thats not really romans
more like origin of romans
or just watch rome TV series
the GOAT
have you guys read the book hyperspace
i read the first book this summer
starting second one soon (hopefully)
but it was incredibly well written
First one is honestly my least favourite of the series
but for what it does for the series its so good
personally prefer the scope and pacing of the later books
that is what often happens, author has yet to find their own voice and how they present the story
book 1 and 2 are great
i think affc is my favourite jst bc of the pov characters in it but on first read i didnt enjoy brienne chapters as much
kafcuh
is this fantasy?
2 books away from my yearly goal of 20 books
missed mine by 80% 
I ordered the first three a few weeks ago, how are the books?
I read the first 2 so far
they're really good
Great to hear, i've wanted to read them for quite some time now
Enjoy 
@fallen basin i’m reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and Short stories of Chekhov (Pevear and Volokhonsky), both are blowing my mind
recently read "Minor Detail"
pretty good, I recommend
Couch RR Martin
The size of those books intimidates me so I’ve never started them
i love big things
tbf this one is pretty small as its 3 prequel novellas stuck together rather than a novel in itself
My motto used to be if it ain't thick af I ain't reading it
as far as mottos go im ngl thats pretty bottom tier
For books not for life or smth 
Ohhh I see. That ain't so bad then

long movies long books long songs always the best of their medium
damn right
60 pages in, this is absolutely a fucking banger and i read wait to finish it with my mom throughout the year
i love the larger than life depiction of God, reminds me of the Holy See from Berserk
The author reminds me of Bungo Stray Dogs
i forgot to yap abt it but i finished Bunny by Mona Awad, holy shit what a book 
i definitely recommend it to ppl, it's like literary horror, fiction
lots of symbolism and very unreliable narrator, its a bit scary so much shit goes on 😭 its also kinda nutty though a pretty hard read due to what happens and how it's written
definitely not for everyone though but omg one of my favorite books recently
i’ll check it out! sounds awesome
just finished sunrise on the reaping. wont spoil but jesus christ its devastating. so so so good. quickly moved up my ranks into #1 position, i'd say i prefer it to The Hunger Games
the return of thomas ruggles pynchon, jr.
i wonder if he says anything for perhaps his last chance to communicate with his fans
via an authors note
i mean what a career
this is absolutely the best writer who walks the earth rn imo
I finished Funny Story by Emily Henry a while back! I really enjoyed it, it has a different pacing compared to her other books that i enjoyed. its a romance, romcommy style book, with fake dating, opposites attract kind of vibes. spicy scenes are detailed but not explicit or vulgar it was like 👌 a good balance
cute!
Are these books really that helpful?
im gonna go on a whim and say it’s how you comprehend it and how diligently you apply it
i’m sure the information is great
and the rhetoric compelling for most, lest they wouldn’t have become so successful
They are very theoretical, and he uses them to explain his foundation on how to think
About as helpful as any self help book, a fun, cringy at times read
i’ve never seen a book fall apart on this scale, some pages literally just fall out and the covers are all sort of peeling off
3 Body problem, what are your impressions
I'm picking it up at the library, haven't seen the netflix adaptation at all
yeah duh what inspires you to read
oh wow i’m so far up the chat
sorry
that message is more than an year old
my phone just tricked me
lol
heard of it know nothing about it
I'll read it and try to share my thoughts about it !
Something like that (434 pages)
Have you read White Nights?
nah
i am reading that one at a snails pace with my momma
i picked it up after seeing lilya 4-ever and wondering how anyone can believe in God if some people are subject to a life of suffering at the hands of others
it’s very good, the nature of religion in that book reminds me a lot of Berserk’s fatalistic presence of The God Hand and The Holy See
like this destructive fate either to befriend in fear or suffer at the hands of
His Crime and Punishment is also regarding morality and God no? I started with White Nights just to get a taste of his writing. I cried on a train in front of everyone when the book ended.
Existentialism and Absurdism is basically this
I hope both you and your mom enjoy reading the book, will be waiting for your review.
I’ve heard that book is very bittersweet. And thank you, yes me and my mom have been enjoying it… slowly. We love the main character (TBK), as does everyone. Would even be willing to name my kid after him, lol.
Making Dostoevsky your child's Godfather is such a power move 😶

Sup Sup

This is a long read but progress! Hopeing to finish it by the end of February at the latest
I highly recommend this
this book tells the story of cancer through science, history, and real human experiences. It explains complex medical topics in a way that’s easy to follow and never feels dry. If you’re curious about biology, medicine, or just want to spark your interest in science again, this book is absolutely worth reading.
bros gonna make me read biology
it's so goated
I cried

I mean I had some resonance with the experience that the author describes
Maybe that is why I find it so emotional
you have cancer?
sorry I don't mean to hurt your feelings I didn't understand what you meant by having some resonance with it
I worked in a cancer department

bro
read the first chapter
Chuck it in here as I’m what I’ve been reading recently.
Did finish two other books earlier this month which is A Tempest of Tea and A Seeping of Blood
Yes youre the only person in the whole world who does
The kindle market crashed
You're the only one keeping it afloat
(I have one too)
Eh, I prefer the feeling of the paper against my skin tbh
I know a few people, also the kind that bought a kindle and took it apart
, i would probably be an ereader user if i didn’t lose/break mine a decade ago
I read on my phone lmfao
I don't have space to keep any physical books and I'm travelling most of the year so can't risk losing my books or spoiling them
Same, I have a kindle myself. I mainly bought it to reduce my phone usage and it worked out
Also I can preserve my phone battery on long flights by reading on a kindle
I used to do that for like 2 years and then got gifted a kindle
And now I'm an ereader enjoyer

niceu
Hello
Can you read that?

send me the link when you do
alright which book
The hobbit
Soft copy?

J.R.R TOLKIEN is so goated
will finish it before the movie comes out
Yes
So
Do you like balrog or dragons?
There is only one correct answer

And get straight to the trilogy
Vas
Isn't the oder going like:
The hobbit -> the trilogy -> smth smth
Buh
Cause I watched the movies so I went timeline wise
If you go by order then Silmarillion is last
💀
If you go by timeline Silmarillion is first
Damn, good to experience it first time
Have you watched the movies, do watch them after
No that's good

The movie is really good too
The only thing I know about the movie is YOU SHALL NOT PASS
There area a lot of epic scenes that just give you goosebumps
The battle of 5 armies is my fav
Ofc no spoilers to you

(that's the book title so I am not spoiling anything)
In hobbits?
yes
The author is like telling a story for us
It's really good
and he mentioned that war
Yep
I think that war is final big thing that happened in hobbits trilogy?
Alright kiddo its time to take you on a magical journey
The extended edition LOTR movie
WAS
VAS

Dont see the hobbit movies first. See LOTR then go Hobbit if seeing the movies
And skip the whole amazon show
Ping here if you forget
Oh yea don't watch the lotr series btw
The newest thing
It's trash
They completely redid the story
Yup Im mad that they're keeping that show while shelving WoT just when it got good
I love how the author is trying to say we go this and that direction and I look at this and don't know wtf he's talking about
Wheel of Time

Dont worry, first time I read , I had to go to wiki to understand after every few chapters

What's that
Sometime I thought the north was the south so I was stuck in there for like 20' minutes wondering why we are going back

It's another high fantasy series by robert jordan
Very long and the final books was written by brandon sanderson as the author died. RIP
How could we get LOTR in 2000s but this bums can't make a proper fantasy in 2026 with better technology
Bro I realised the book I had read last year was just wannabe GOT
Took me 4 months to realise

Had dragons, hot couple, smut, fantasy, literal ghouls coming from north like GOT
How did I not see it

And that all 3 movies back to back with a year gap
Oh you are here
Now 10 eps take 2-3 years
That's very early bro
3 oscars too
Now I'm out the forest
So where you at rn?

But have fun take your time
lotr wiki spoiled me so much
"accidentally" clicked on the arrow down button with the death info

Curiosity kills the guy

And now I know gandalf is immortal

I hope my dementia catches up and makes me forget about that

mine already did
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