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what are your fun, low stakes new year resolutions?
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After Reddit shut off 3rd party apps, I came here and resolved to read more. In the previous decade I had read maybe 2 books. I think your resolution is achievable but i would make it ridiculously achievable of reading like 1 min a day.
The habit of reading is what you want and the books will come after that and chances are you will read much longer. Don’t read anything you “should” be reading. Get a “popcorn flick” equivalent that you interests you and isn’t challenging.
Here is what I have read since June.
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Shogun by James Clavell
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Wool by Hugh Howey
Shift by Hugh Howey
Dust by Hugh Howey
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
(Reading) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
I'd recommend getting into Asimov's Foundation series. I, Robot is kind of a meh book from him, Imo (I've read all his fiction work)
Also take a look at Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey).
I'd also recommend Heinlein, but his books do get pretty "pervy misogynistic old man harem fantasies" in his later years.
Great recommendations. I want to read the foundation series, I’m enjoying the show, but the wait time on Libby is really long. Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors. I do need to read some of Clarke’s books but it almost suffers from “classical” must read avoidance I have lol
If Asimov's Robots series has a shorter/no wait I think they're worth reading. Maybe not as exciting as the Empire and Foundation series, but it's interesting background- the evolution of robots, positronic brains, robot/human relations, jump ships, space colonization, human clones. Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and Robots of Dawn are murder mystery detective stories that advance the robot plot.
Asimov recommended reading his books in this order:
The Complete Robot (1982) and/or I, Robot (1950)
Caves of Steel (1954)
The Naked Sun (1957)
The Robots of Dawn (1983)
Robots and Empire (1985)
The Currents of Space (1952)
The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Note: Forward the Foundation (1993) was then unpublished, but would have followed Prelude.
Foundation (1951)
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Second Foundation (1953)
Foundation's Edge (1982)
Foundation and Earth (1986)
https://more.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1584219139/1735833849
I appreciate the recommendation and listing them out! That is actually helpful as I don’t like searching up which book is next.
If you aren't already in it, it sounds like you belong in the sci-fi community on Lemmy.world, some of those were books of the month recently.
A link for the lazy?
https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction
Let's see if this works: c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !sciencefiction@lemmy.world
That's helpful. Good bot.
Thanks!
You betcha, friend.
I am and that’s why I read the books. I do need to get better about going into particular communities to help drive their growth.
The Wool trio by Hugh Howey is a banger! I actually just finished Shift yesterday, and I'm gonna borrow Dust from a library tomorrow.