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.

  • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I never really was able to get into the honorverse much; but the march upcountry series, by the same two authors who wrote some of the honorverse, I liked a lot.

    Upcountry was some of the best military science fiction I ever read. And here, for some reason, they struck the right balance for me, cancelling out both their negative ( for me) traits .

    It starts with a total loser of a prince and over time he finds his stride to be more of an Alexander the Great character.

    The battles range from medieval weapons to space battles with real time communication constraints, in the four books