Animorphs is a fun kid’s series about changing into animals and fighting aliens! Also the brutalities and hard decisions of war, the terrible consequences of pacifism, and all the kids get PTSD from the awful battles they fight and the atrocities they’re forced to commit. Also Area 51 has an alien toilet!
Spoilers for a nearly 30 year old book series
Also, everyone dies at the end!
As someone who read all 54 core books last year, this is factually incorrect
Isn’t it heavily implied that Earth is going to fall to the yeerks for sure? Gonna be honest, it’s been almost 20 years since I read them.
The Hobbit was specifically written from the stories Tolkein told his children and I read that one on the regular
“Watership Down”, too. It was based on Adams’s experience in the military and particular people he knew, so there was plenty of material and real shit to draw from (like real shit; IYKYK), as then translated into stories he told to his daughter when she was small about a little tribe of plucky hero rabbits in the face of danger. If you can come up with a better formula for creating a fuckin epic story, I will be surprised.
Adult books are about sad people having affairs
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No, 1984 is outdated and boring, and a coffee table book.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
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
“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.”
—Friedrich von Schiller
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
—G.K. Chesterton
should we really be bringing our kids up to be nice little conformant drones?
I think the only book I’ve read that included sad people having affairs was from Game of Thrones. I’m more into just general suffering