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Mac Budkowski@macbudkowski
9/18/2022

Let's start a Farcaster book recommendation thread. What are the TOP3 fiction books you've ever read and why do you love them? My titles below 👇

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Mac Budkowski@macbudkowski
9/18/2022

1. Harry Potter & Methods of Rationality. Entertaining and intellectually challenging HP fanart saga that teaches you about psychology, philosophy, economics, science & more.

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Joe Petrich@jpetrich
9/18/2022

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towels The list is heavily biased by recent reading but they're all great.

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brian is not live@briang
9/18/2022

just finished reading the first book of Game of Thrones world building is insane, the only metric I use when rating fiction-fantasy books is how easily and intensely can I be transported to a different realm going to watch the show now for the first time

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Ryan Rodenbaugh@ryanrodenbaugh
9/18/2022

Fiction: Stranger in a Strange Land (Added bonus for best cover art) Three Body Series (duh). Short stories: Manna (Marshall Brian) and The Gentle Seduction (Marc Stiegler)

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Ayush@ayush
9/18/2022

1. Dark Forest - The book is inexplicable. Every time you think you know what's happening, you don't.

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Syed Shah 🏴‍☠️🌊@syed
9/18/2022

Mistborn trilogy. It’s the perfect story. Each book works perfectly as a standalone while somehow raising the stakes and setting up for the next book just as well. Then all the threads are woven together at the end in a way that makes you say “wow.” Really perfected the landing.

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Amit Mukherjee@amitmukherjee
9/18/2022

Tenth of December by George Saunders - creepy cerebral short stories

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Josh S@joshs
9/18/2022

Wheel of Time. So many perspectives, cultures, character development, magic system, philosophy, and ties to our own world/current turning of the wheel.

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Martín@tdmartin
9/18/2022

Don Quijote (quixote) Mindblowing to think it was written 500 years ago, it is both amazing fiction and a poignant commentary on fiction itself.

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9/18/2022

Kurt vonnegut player piano - comedy about a dystopian future where quality of life is ruined by automation, Peter Watts blindsight - 1st contact novel exploring Consciousness, JG Ballard Highrise - explores how modern social & technological landscapes could alter the psyche

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padmini@padmini
9/18/2022

The player of games - the culture is a futuristic decentralized society where humans + AI have eliminated scarcity. The fractal prince - (book 2 in series) Virtual worlds within worlds. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- describes a compelling philosophy through story.

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9/18/2022

Non sci fi: Homers The Odyssey - timeless classic about a heroes struggles to return home. Voltaire Candide - comedy about painful disillusionment with the real world, Dostoyevsky - crime and punishment, story about a man who thinks he should not be bound by normal morality

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ghanavi.eth@navi-gator
9/18/2022

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

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Alex Reinstein@asr
9/18/2022

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9/18/2022

A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. Incredible world-building and character development, all without leaving the central hotel location! It was a very fitting book for COVID lockdown time.

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9/18/2022

Kafka the Trial Camus the Stranger Nietzsche Zarathustra

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Varun Srinivasan@v
9/18/2022

1. Midnight's Children - a "magic realism" take on the history of post-independence india 2. Kafka on the Shore - a meandering, metaphysical tale that goes nowhere and everywhere 3. Trainspotting - hilarious, nihilistic, tragi-comedy about a group of scottish heroin addicts

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9/18/2022

haven't read this myself but I keep getting it recommended to me, Negative Space by B.R. Yeager for a ~spooky fall read

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9/18/2022

Childhood favs: Atlas Shrugged 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Cat's Cradle Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Clockwork Orange

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Charlie Harrington@whatrocks
9/19/2022

If you cast “@whatrocks book”, my userbot will reply with one of my favorite books at random

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Sophie@sophie
9/19/2022

1) Women in Love by DH Lawrence - he is so so underrated. He writes not just fiction, but philosophy + literature, as the norm once was. His characters are wholly relatable and capture real life with fleeting emotions and grounded thoughts

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Sophie@sophie
9/19/2022

2) Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley - amazing if you are British. If not, Brave New World is an all time classic. No better thought experiment to think about politics and tech together

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Sophie@sophie
9/19/2022

3) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - even if you don’t agree with her philosophy, her writing is as captivating as gamified modern crap but actually thought provoking

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9/19/2022

An Artist of the Floating World (Ishiguro) — art, artists, politics, and pride Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut) — cosmic satire The Little Prince — love, and silly grown ups

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Chris@piffie
9/19/2022

Candide by Voltaire. I love classics. This is imo one of the best. It teaches absolute optimism through a fake story of a boy who lives through all the bad things that happened to humans in the 300 years before and the boy argues why it is the best thing that happened.

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Alex Palmer@thatalexpalmer
9/21/2022

A Scanner Darkly is one I keep re-reading now and again! Loved it because it’s prose at its best. I once read that science fiction is the first draft of history. This book reads like a late draft of history that could have been, should we’ve taken one too many questionable turns

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Juan Rivera Perez@juan
9/21/2022

The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea, authors Bob Burg and John David Mann

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Floppy Abe@floppyabe
9/23/2022

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman (heartwarming; reminds me of a happy time in my life) Lightbringer series - Brent Weeks (epic fantasy; unique magic system; incredible character development) The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson (I just love spooky stuff)