My eyesight is getting shot by looking at a monitor for so many hours, both at work and off work, so Doc said to switch to analogue - if I have to read something, let it be books.

I’m into pretty much all genres, so if there is any book you particularly like or recommend, I’m all ears (and eyes)!

EDIT: thanks for the great suggestions, I’m checking all of them!!!

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Perhaps that you’ve already read them but i recently enjoyed Martin Eden by Jack London and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World - Nonfiction, Political Science

Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire - Nonfiction, History

Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials - Fiction, Compendium of illustrations and descriptions of notable aliens from literature

The Ciaphias Cain series - Fiction, Warhammer 40,000 Sci-Fi/Comedy

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain - Alt-History/Time Travel/Isekai

A Witch Shall Be Born (or any other Conan short story) - Fantasy

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Just a few different options:

  • Project Hail Mary (Scifi)
  • Red Planet Blues (Scifi)
  • Dresden Files (Fantasy)
  • Gunslinger (Fantasy)
  • Sigma Force Series (Action/Historical Fiction)
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If you want something fun, weird and easy to read (scifi/fantasy):

Life, Liberty And The Persuit Of Sausages by Tom Holt


Fun even weirder (scifi/fantasy):

Shades Of Grey by Jasper Fforde


Fascinating and thinky scifi:

Beggars In Spain by Nancy Kress


Beautifully written feminist scifi:

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

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The top two have a very British sensibility baked into the text and won’t be as funny if you don’t get the cultural references.

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