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I haven't read Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, but I did enjoy The Martian and Gödel, Escher, Bach, so maybe I should read it. What kind of writing do you li
by mcphage 2y ago
I haven't read Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, but I did enjoy The Martian and Gödel, Escher, Bach, so maybe I should read it. What kind of writing do you like?
- tetris11 2y agoThere are plenty of well written books out there, where the author doesn't explicitly tell you how you should feel, but teases out details about the world and lets you come to your own conclusions by the actions of the characters. Read the first few chapters. Tell me if I'm way off the mark. I know exactly how judgemental I'm sounding, but I want others to know that HN book recommendations are really not that great.
- meristohm 2y agoYes, you sound judgmental when you dismiss all HN book recommendations, but let's just add "for me" at the end of your last sentence, yeah? Not every book recommended on HN is for me, but the number of hits versus misses keeps me coming back to this well.