For me: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

I had seen the movie but never read the book before. It was a lot better than I expected.

Also what is your current/next book?

I’m continuing the saga with The Restaurant At The End Of The Galaxy.

  • m_f@discuss.onlineMEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The audiobooks for HHGttG are quite good if that’s your sort of thing. Stephen Fry does a great job on the first one. I didn’t quite like the voices in the other ones, but they were still overall well done.

    In the middle of reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, by Brandon Sanderson. I haven’t read any of his stuff other than his completion of the Wheel of Time series. I saw that Tress is a good standalone book in the series so I figured I’d try that out. It’s good so far, but seems rather YA compared to what I assume the rest of the series is like.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I haven’t read his YA but I’m in the middle of Stormlight 5, and yeah it’s not YA. His adult books are generally the sort that you’d be comfortable giving a teenager but they deal with heavy stuff like class conflicts, cycles of racial violence, and ethical questions.

      If you’re interested in a stand alone of his adult books I’d recommend Elantris or Warbreaker, though both will get sequels later, neither was written knowing that.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          And Mistborn dealt with systemically rooted sexual violence in a way that was shockingly well handled, including the way that it just demolished the mental health of everyone involved except the sociopathic