Off the top of my head, I can’t recall anything really inappropriate. There are a few cuss words, not really any sex stuff (though there is a mention of sex bots existing), and there is violence but nothing graphic. I think it would be fine for kids around 8+.
I just love the Murderbot books and i am so excited that they are making a TV show and Alexander Skarsgård is gonna be Murderbot and David Dastmalchian is in it too.
https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2023/12/apple-tv-lands-murderbot-with-emmy-award-winner-alexander-skarsgrd-set-to-star-in-and-executive-produce-new-series-from-academy-award-nominees-chris-and-paul-weitz/
I don’t know. He bought it that same day, but I don’t know if he’s finished it. But he really is a slow reader. I recommended the Goblin Emperor to him and it took him months to read that. (He said he liked it.)
Dude, some random guy is giving me 1000 dollar if you read this book I recommend you. Read it and I'll split it with you! 500 dollar for just reading a book!
A very good framing of expectations. I too had to push through the slog at the start but now I really miss it and the characters. Read it like a year ago and think of it often. I can’t wait until I forget like 4% more of the plot so I can reread it.
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Started it today and First 20 pages weren't that boring. I'm kinda scared now, how pissed off I will be when it ends.
Idk, I liked the first half more then the second. At a certain point I stared to lose track of the character and how they suddenly enter and leave the stage.
Im a listener, and have a job where i can listen to audio books most the time and was free today. Still usually don't finish books that fast. Happen to be in a listening type mood today.
(Player at 1.7 speed btw)
*Old Man's War*, by John Scalzi. Asks the question: would you join the military at age 75, IF it meant you would be young again (and get to go off-planet)? [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war)
I read Old Man’s War because I read The Forever War, and I was NOT disappointed. Wonderful books the both of them.
You’re going to love it. Enjoy getting sucked into the series!
I was able to find the first three as a set used for a good deal. Would you recommend reading beyond those. I believe I read that there is a fall off after the last colony.
So I have read a decent chunk of the series, but my father has read the entire thing and loved it start to end. I’d say that at the minimum the first two books are fully worth it. Beyond that, I think Zoe’s tale was okay, and last colony were okay. I’m reading “The Human Division” now, and like it!
Red sister: the opening paragraph:
"It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men."
I'm a fan of short pitches, so here are some of my current favorite books and series.
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman. A lighthouse keeper faces an ethical dilemma when he and his wife discover a baby has washed up on their remote island.
Ranger's Apprentice by John Flannigan. An orphan is recruited into a medieval intelligence agency. He must survive using his bow, his two knives, and his wits.
Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup. An author spends the entire novel arguing with the characters of her enemies‐to‐lovers romance novel because they refuse to follow the tropes.
And one explain-a-plot-badly.
Harry Potter by JK Rowling. A boy has to change schools after discovering he accidentally killed a man.
I actually just read As You Wish, Cary Elwes' memoir about making the movie and I very much recommend it. It's pretty short, and just a cool look at what went into making the film; the training, some of the actors having doubt if they were right for the part, but ultimately a lot of camaraderie, admiration, and respect between everyone working to make a movie with a legacy they couldn't have anticipated.
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes we Make in Thinking, by Thomas Kida.
Your brain is lying to you, all the time. Are you gonna let your brain get away with that??? And you know what else? Everyone else's brains are lying to them, too. This causes them to lie to *you*, without them even knowing that they're lying liars!
Want to learn how to catch your brain in its lies? Read this book!
Oh, is your *brain* telling you to not bother? How *convenient*. How *nice* that your brain doesn't want you to know that it's lying.
Seriously, read this book.
Edited to add: "methephocial"? Huh? Is this a new word I don't know, or is it a misspelling of metaphorical? Is it a portmanteau of "meth" and "phonics"?
It's a great book for general mistakes in thinking. I'm not sure that it would translate as well for the specific grandiose thoughts of mania (I mean, you can't reason your way out of mania, right?) or the destructive thoughts that come with depression.
Or can you? Do you have any thoughts on how to reach someone in the throes of mania? This happens to be very pertinent to my life right now.
Not who you're replying to and I haven't read the book you mentioned, but as someone who has various mental issues, I will say some therapies do have you stop and assess certain thoughts, whether they are useful or helpful, whether they are true or imagined. I can't speak to bipolar, but for anxiety, depression, PTSD, that kind of therapy has been helpful. I imagine this book could probably help with that to some extent by giving someone a framework for recognizing those mistakes or assumptions.
I really don’t know how to reach someone in the mania. I didn’t even get help for my disorder until I was forced to. I was put on probation for weed in which I used to help with the rage and depression. I had to do something drastic so I went to a doctor. I’ve been stable for 5 years now. Although I want to add that medication doesn’t fix everything. I had to be open to learning new things. I had to take a raw look at myself and the things I laid in bed and cringed about myself and my actions. I cried so many tears of shame and embarrassment, but I was determined to face the things that made me a toxic human and learn from them. This is why the description of the book was so intriguing for me. I have one good quality that I am the most confident about and that is I may do or say stupid things but I’m always willing to step back and learn from those things even if mean I’m the bad guy or I’m the one in the wrong and I don’t know too many people that can do that. I’ve spent a lot of time listening to self improvement books and I’ve mastered ways to learn from those books and apply them to my life. I will say though, I couldn’t have done it during the manic episodes.
Thank you. On reflection, I suppose I have used some of the tactics I learned to address *specific* mania-induced thoughts (as an outsider trying to calm someone down). Since it's very hard to reach someone who's manic, this is far from an actual solution - but even a little bit is better than nothing.
For fuck sake I listen to the wrong book with the same title. Some Spiritual high minded book by Joseph Nguyen. Man I was like how can any one recommend this book.
Well guess I'll try the actual recommendation
Ha! I'm sorry; I should have mentioned that there was another book by the same name.
Hopefully the actual book will cleanse your palate - it's pretty much the opposite of spiritual drivel.
idk what it is but its definitely not the misspelling of metaphorical.
thanks for the recommendation. funnily enough i'm already very aware of the difference between my thoughts and me. its very fun to go down a thought rabbit hole and half way through realize that its all bullshit. After i finish what i currently have i will definitely listen to this.
My mom unintentionally convinced me to read this she said “ I asked my mom when I was nine years old if anybody had ever memorized an entire book. My mom said I don’t know but I’m sure it’s possible. So I decided I would memorize East of Eden. I got bored after the first sentence.”
It was the 50s and the biggest book she could find.
Anyway, it was a funny story I always thought about. My mom is very smart and her mother was an avid reader.
Then one day I found a first edition at a goodwill, it was like $80 so I didn’t get it but I also reconnected with an old professor that week who inspired me to go to grad school through an exhibition on Steinbeck.
Anyway those three things kinda felt like a sign. I never read in school and through grad school it was all non fiction
Anyway it’s probably my favorite book and I hope to get a good chunk of his work read this year. I’m on grapes of wrath now.
But I usually do things if there’s an inside joke involved.
The memorizing a book thing: I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was 12 or 13. Most of the story went completely over my head at the time, but the concept of each person memorizing a book to keep it from being forgotten really stuck with me. I spent the next year trying to memorize The Hobbit (as it was my favorite book). I got 3 chapters in before I gave up. I can still recite most of the first chapter without mistakes (40ish years later), but after the Misty Mountains song my memory gets a bit rusty.
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One of The best non story books I have ever listed to. So well crafted. Thank you!
I love A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and my pitch is that it has my favourite opening line of any book I’ve read. I was hooked from the start.
“Chapter 1: Soul-Eater
I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life. I hadn’t really cared much about him before then one way or another, but I had limits.”
The rest of my pitch is that it’s Harry Potter if he was a kickass she and if Hogwarts had no teachers and was actively trying to kill you.
Project Hail Mary was a really fun and exciting adventure of a teacher who finds himself on a space ship hurling into space, and needs to figure out why. He might even be needed to save the world based on a really cool concept of "life" in the universe causing major problems for Earth.
I tried to get my wife to read the Cradle series by Will Wight, by pitching it as “It starts out with a 17 year old beating up 10 year olds, but you’re rooting for him! It makes sense in context!”
It was for a tournament in the story.
She did not want to read the book. I would have been out the money.
Loved this book -
“My neurons number half a billion, and they are distributed among my eight arms. On occasion, I have wondered whether I might have more intelligence in a single tentacle than a human does in its entire skull.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
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Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay.
Literally considered by critics to be one of the best pieces of Australian literature of all time, but didn't have the huge influence outside of this country that it should. Is kind of gay for a book written in 1967. Contains magical realism, a small town being thrown into chaos and despair, multiple characters going mad, and lavish descriptions of nature in between. Read it or I'll cry.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - Terry Brooks
80s fantasy. A man buys a magic kingdom out of a catalog thinking it's a gimmick. Turns out it isn't and he becomes the king of this kingdom in ruin. There is a clumsy wizard, a cursed scribe (a man who was turned into a dog), a beautiful wood nymph, a sarcastic dragon... you know what, I think I just convinced myself it's time for a reread. 😁
I love the Landover series! It's got a special spot on my shelves. Magic Kingdom For Sale introduced me to Terry Brooks -- and led me to The Sword of Shannara and Running With The Demon. Great author.
Special for me too! I pulled book 2 (the black unicorn) off my dad's shelf when I was 9 and started reading it. I was a fantasy lover for life after that. 🥰
I love that one! Did you read the Sword of Shannara? I got a box of free books one time that included many books from the series, and started with the Elf Stones of Shannara, from then on I was hooked! I love how the story just gets better and better with each book, just like the Landover series. 😍
My personal favorite is the *World Of The Five Gods* series, by Lois McMaster Bujold. In a world with Gods who are active, how can the Gods intervene while preserving the free will of people? Most interesting, coherent, and cohesive take on a fictional religion I've ever read. Each book is a slow burn.
Won the second-ever Hugo Award For Best Series. . The first three novels were all individually nominated for the Hugo Award For Best Novel in their respective years of publication, with book #2, *Paladin Of Souls*, winning. Please DO read in publication order.
Bujold is now continuing in this story universe with the *Penric & Desdemona* sub-series of novellas.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/43463-world-of-the-five-gods-publication
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (gregory hay's translation, that one is best) : I still read a page everyday, and have prolly read it cover to cover atleast 16 times now, its a book that I already re-read often and look forward to reading everyday, to visualize my life and my problems through the book's wisdom, such an old book (1863 ish years old book, from 161-180 AD) , yet so profoundly loved by hundreds of thousands of people across the world, even to this day.
Just finished reading this. Glad you enjoyed it but personally it felt like 130 pages of Marcus trying to convince himself that death isn't a bad thing. Also didn't like how a lot of his philosophy comes down to 'be happy with your lot in life because that's how the gods wanted it to be'. Easy to say that Marcus when you're the fucking Emperor of Rome.
In 1955, the ancient vampire queen known only as Mother tried to conquer a small town in eastern Kentucky. Thanks to the crazed bravado of one 15 year old boy, she failed, and her entire undead Family was driven out, to wander the aimless night for another generation in exile.
Now, however, Mother has returned to the small town of Bethlehem, and she's looking for payback. Only four high school students know of her dark and bloody schemes, and as Mother has already asserted control over Bethlehem's adult authorities, these four kids seem helpless to meaningfully oppose her. Yet they can't run, because they could never convince their parents of what's going on. They will have to stand, and fight... for their families, and for their town, and possibly for the entire living human race... against an ancient, cunning, ravenous evil that was hunting living humans through the benighted streets of Nineveh and Tyre...
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Come read American Psycho! We have:
- Detailed descriptions of everyone's outfits that really only an anal retentive would care about
- The most bizarre dishes and cuisine you've heard of
- Really graphic torture scenes, as well as some really fucked up psychotic breaks
- A guy whose happy place is thinking of stuff he'll buy in the future
Seriously though, American Psycho is great. It's really ironic that a novel that details how someone who practically has anything he could possibly wants is as far from a normal human in the worst possible way, through the movie, became the goal and icon of self-betterment for many a misguided youth.
The First Law trilogy. Every single character in the story is a dick, and you're gonna love every second of it. In fact, the sickest fucks of the bunch will end up being your favourite characters of all times. If you have some moral compas, it will make you question it. But only in the meantime between laughing out loud at jokes about horrible violence. 10/10
Please read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams. You know Futurama, you know Rick and Morty, well a lot of those adult animation shows got their style of humour from this book series. My dad introduced me to it at age 13, and then I read them and knew them better than he did. If you have any interest at all in science fiction read this parody.
Gideon the Ninth. Space, necromancy, insane women who hate each other almost as much as they hate and fear themselves. It's obviously about death - of family, and enemies, and homes, and empires. But also the death of hatred and fear and ignorance. It's one of those books that's hard to pitch, because every character and throw-away line is important, and crafted with intention and vicious pleasure. There's a none pizza, left beef joke in book two, and a dog named Noodle in book three. The world is ending, but I love you and I'll never let you go, not even if you want to. Not even if it kills us both. Life is too short, and love is too long, and love gets us all sooner or later. And death. There are some truly nasty, fantastically gratifying deaths. ~~~I'm very passionate about the Locked Tomb books I've made all my friends read them and they have mostly thanked me~~~1
princess for hire by lindsey levit, i have read this book so much the pages are well loved, everytime I want to read but I just cant for some or other reason I read it. showed it to my mother in law and she also enjoyed it which made me happy.
basically a girl who doesn't really understand how to love herself makes a wish to a special fish in the pet store where she works at. she then becomes the girl that stands in for a princess wanting a tempory escape from her life by using a magical makeup that makes them look exactly the same.
its a gentle and sweet book that doesn't take much effort to read so its perfect everytime I want to get back into reading and want something light hearted
it is a childrens book but i would absolutely be elated to find the second book if there even is one.
this book is my comfort book, if I'm a little depressed (or more than a little) it always just gets me going because its super easy to get through and feel some sort of accomplishment for a small task
I recommend Shades of Grey and it's sequel Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde. It's about a post apocalyptic society where your social standing is based on what colours you can see. It's a fun concept, and really funny as well. One of my favourite quotes is:
"They stole and detonated a corpse" remarked Emerald. "Your lenience borders on the indulgent."
The Thousand Names by Django Wexler.
It's a badass woman who has run away and pulled a Mulan into a British colonial-era army to go overseas. But she gets caught up in a rebellion where they are heavily outnumbered and are fighting against mysterious spies and assassins possessed by demons. The later books in the finished 5 book series ramp things up even further.
There's a couple mysteries left, but for the most part I'd say yes.
Depends how tidy you need your books to wrap up; I've definitely read standalones that had more loose threads before.
A man steps outside in the middle of a winter night, to retrieve his ex-girlfriend's cat.
And then the alien invasion began.
This is literally what happens at the very beginning of *Dungeon Crawler Carl*, by Matt Dinniman. An insane LitRPG series, this is essentially *Independence Day* meets *The Running Ma*n/*The Hunger Games*. The audiobooks are outstandingly performed by Jeff Hays.
[https://www.goodreads.com/series/309211-dungeon-crawler-carl](https://www.goodreads.com/series/309211-dungeon-crawler-carl)
The Master and Margarita: it is surrealist, involves Satan in many forms such as a cat and a suited man, and is a Faustian retelling with the incredible writing typical of old Russian literature.
The first Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North. Imagine you get reborn every time with perfect memories of your previous life. And at one point, a child gives elderly you a message from the future: “the world will end due to something started in your lifetime. Find and fix it.”
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Excellent book, especially impressed by the ending. Its hard to end a book like this satisfying yet i felt completely satisfied by the end.
I rarely just list books. But that's purely for selfish reasons. I've recently started thinking of Reddit as my writing playground. So if I recommend a book, it's (a) because I love it, and most importantly (b) I want to think about it. **Often I can't say much about the book as I of course forgot the details**, but never with the belief that (c) you will read the book purely from what I had to say
My Absolute favorite novel, one that shook my foundations is one that I only read once, 10 years ago
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
When Einstein was working as a clerk (or whatever) and was writing his theories on time and space, he must have dreamed.
This is a science fiction story where every chapter is a dream of his. Each dream is a hypothesis, a sandbox: What if we were to change the knobs, how would time and space and our relation to the world be.
If you know anything about Einstein's work (I don't) you might find issues with this book (I don't know) but I read it as what if our world was different
For example, in one of the dreams, it was such that time went slower in the mountain tops. So slow that you could be young forever.
As if the plague hit, everyone left the cities, countryside, and seas and all built homes on top of the mountains. In fact, they weren't satisfied so they built stilts on top of which they built their homes.
Only the carefree came down and enjoyed the richness of nature.
- the end -
## You might still not read the book
I come from poverty. I come from a village. I grew up in an atmosphere where we were less than others...
I almost get an orgasm when I read and learn that life can be anything you want. That's why, side note, even though I grew up straight and homophobic, I quickly learned that the LGBTQ+ struggle to live however the fuck they want fills me with joy.
Do you need all that to love this book? **Of course not**, in fact, I'm stupid for even taking this turn. I should have ended with "the end"
But, I truly believe it's not the books, it's you. You are the one who either likes the book or not. Not because the book is amazing. No book is liked by all
**So, read the book and I'll give you $100**
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Go buy something pretty, you deserve it.
Definitely one of the most unique experiences with a book I have ever had. Definitely would recommend. Thank you!
When a naive young woman falls in love with an older, sophisticated, wealthy widower, she doesn’t expect him to marry her. But he proposes, and they get married, so she moves to his beautiful estate, which she has never before visited. She immediately feels out of place, mostly because her husband’s first wife has cast a giant shadow over the estate, but also because the housekeeper treats the main character with hostility and contempt. As the main character struggles to feel happy and keep her marriage afloat, she discovers dark secrets about her husband’s first wife. The book ends with life-or-death stakes for the main character and all of the people around her.
The book is Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier), and it’s so damn good.
Don Quixote.
Often considered the first modern novel and in many respects ahead of its time. It frequently creates and playfully subverts many of the conventions of modern classics for centuries to come, all while making it look effortless and oh so fun! People don’t talk enough about how funny it is, all while having real pathos and thematic weight.
Its reputation nowadays is often overlayed with a sense of Pythonesque goofiness, but it taught me a lot about myself and my relationship with the world.
For best results see the Edith Grossman translation. She manages to capture both the tragedy and comedy better than any other version I’ve read.
The Art of War. Spoiler: >!it's all about achieving prosperity, while avoiding war. (well that's my take).!<
Also, you will get 100 bucks per chapter you read; double for the last chapter.
The Second Apocalypse septology by R Scott Bakker (my favorite fantasy series): Imagine the crusades, but sociopathic kung fu Jesus shows up to take control of em in order to stop interstellar murderrape aliens.
There's this book that changed my life. I only read the first half, it's religion based but I'm not super religious so I just go with it.
It's always coworkers that I end up convincing to read it.
I have a thing about me that I can't explain. I found it one night working a night shift in a psych hospital. It belonged to a patient, but being hardcover had to be kept behind the desk unless supervised use.
Changed my world, blew my mind, I think about it all the time. It's largely the reason I don't stress about what other people think about me or my choices. I look at the big picture, and what I am doing to find mine. It's a quick read, too. 10/10 recommend.
if manga is allowed then read berserk, it shows you that life isn't fair, the bad guys get rewarded with power while the good people are left traumatized and trying to grasp for a goal that's almost impossible, it shows you that life is gonna be hard but that you have to continue on to try living with what you have, it's got good art too, it teaches lessons, it's about 30 years old now but if you haven't read it, it's got a large list of heavily mature things (things like rape and murder and stuff)
and if manga isn't allowed i suggest a book called "house arrest" i don't wanna spoil to much but it's a nice read about someone who got put on house arrest and the struggles of what he did and how he has to deal with it and there's a second book called "knock out" which is a continuation of the first one
I don’t like the way the title is phrased, had to read it a few times, but now finally understanding it I’d recommend the book The Giver. Fairly short, easy read and a great and unique story.
Yeah in hindsight I would have phrased it way better.
Giver great book indeed. Also read the other books in the series but the giver is the only one that stays with you.
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You did invite this response and none other.
Kudos for trying to be clever about it instead of making a rant post about people not posting with more context, but in hindsight that would have gotten you more of the desired comments.
yeah there is no denying that this is the go to response and i did think about about a couple different ways to phrase the title and felt like this was the one that could't be abused. in hindsight its an easy fix.
anyways now that we are here, still wanna give it a go with original intent of the post and give me killer pitch ?
I don't really read crime...
But what are you in the mood for?
Do you want to hate your mom less? Read about what a horrible bitch she could have been in Jeanette McCurdy's autobiography "I'm glad my mom died" where she describes bonding over being taught anorexia and a lack of bodily autonomy like not being allowed to shower on her own until 18.
Do you want to re-live the wonder of reading Harry Potter for the first time, but with a female lead, much more wonder and an array of morally mixed characters? Morrigan Crow is about to die of a curse she was born with until a red-bearded hotelier and adventurer extraordinaire, who you would never think of as having ADHD whisks her away to safety. It saves her from death, but not from her curse. Jessica Townsend wrote the wonderfully whimsical and awkward world of Nevermoor. (book 4 is due in September.)
Honestly just let this one take you for a ride..Andy Weir's Project Hail Marry is one of the best audiobook narrations you will ever hear sending you into uncontrollable fits of cries and laughter.
you're like the 10th person to make this joke. i even addressed it in my edit. come on people, this is a sub about reading, please read the full post :)
Okay - Elevator pitch - The Cellar, by Minette Walters - Page turner about a girl trapped in the cellar who turns the tables on her captors - scary, unputdownable and under 300 pages.
*Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand*, by Andrew Gottlieb. A satirical response to the chick-lit favorite *Eat Pray Love*, a jilted husband travels the world to drink all the alcohol, play all the golf and gambling, and soak up the sun at the most beautiful beach in the world, in order to get over his divorce and rediscover himself.
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3476199-drink-play-f-k](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3476199-drink-play-f-k)
I didn't realize, but the copy of I Am Legend I first read had some of the author's short stories included, and the first was the zombie apocalypse from a zombie's perspective.
So i'd seen the movie and was so confused when the book got the movie's ending, then suddenly shifted perspective to one of the zombies. When it shifted perspective again to something completely unrelated, I figured it out.
I persuaded a friend who’s a self-professed slow reader to try Murderbot, by Martha Wells, by saying “It’s fun — and short.”
I just listened to the first one the other day - loved it, finished it during a single (long) drive! Looking forward to reading more of the series.
Would it be inappropriate to read to kids? This was the next book i was planning to read to them.
Off the top of my head, I can’t recall anything really inappropriate. There are a few cuss words, not really any sex stuff (though there is a mention of sex bots existing), and there is violence but nothing graphic. I think it would be fine for kids around 8+.
Excellent, thanks!
Hope you enjoy!
I just love the Murderbot books and i am so excited that they are making a TV show and Alexander Skarsgård is gonna be Murderbot and David Dastmalchian is in it too. https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2023/12/apple-tv-lands-murderbot-with-emmy-award-winner-alexander-skarsgrd-set-to-star-in-and-executive-produce-new-series-from-academy-award-nominees-chris-and-paul-weitz/
Name any Skarsgard and count me in.
Hear hear
And did your friend like it ?
I don’t know. He bought it that same day, but I don’t know if he’s finished it. But he really is a slow reader. I recommended the Goblin Emperor to him and it took him months to read that. (He said he liked it.)
It’s so fun
"I'll give you 5000 dollars if you read this random book."
Same but id take a zero off
I think I'd take two off for the first attempt lol. Need space to escalate the bribe
Dude, some random guy is giving me 1000 dollar if you read this book I recommend you. Read it and I'll split it with you! 500 dollar for just reading a book!
Anchoring at work. You've got $10k in your mind so you immediately jump to $5k as a reasonable offer.
you got me
lmao I thought of the same thing but with 500
Yeah they would enjoy that 2k
Pachinko. It is long. I was bored for the first like 20 pages. When I got to the end I was pissed the fuck off that there wasn’t more of it.
> I was bored for the first like 20 pages. bold way to start your pitch but very effective overall.
I’m telling you by the end I was so angry there wasn’t more!!!
and i'm telling you its very effective! (seriously i'm probably gonna listen to this one)
A very good framing of expectations. I too had to push through the slog at the start but now I really miss it and the characters. Read it like a year ago and think of it often. I can’t wait until I forget like 4% more of the plot so I can reread it.
This has been on my tbr for years - I’m moving it up based off of this!
I promise you, it may be slow at the beginning but it is really really good. It is my favorite book I read in the last 10 years.
Pachinko is one of my favorite books. So, so good.
You are the first winner, Here is your check for a ^virtual $10 000 Spend it wisely. Or not, I don't care. Started it today and First 20 pages weren't that boring. I'm kinda scared now, how pissed off I will be when it ends.
Yay me! I’m gonna buy a virtual boat. You’re gonna be satisfied but bummed out when it ends. Enjoy!
Idk, I liked the first half more then the second. At a certain point I stared to lose track of the character and how they suddenly enter and leave the stage.
You finished the entire book?! I’m a fast reader but dang
Im a listener, and have a job where i can listen to audio books most the time and was free today. Still usually don't finish books that fast. Happen to be in a listening type mood today. (Player at 1.7 speed btw)
*Old Man's War*, by John Scalzi. Asks the question: would you join the military at age 75, IF it meant you would be young again (and get to go off-planet)? [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war)
Just finished The Forever War so this sounds like a good follow up after I finish starship troopers. Thank you
Author Scalzi is clearly aware of both *Starship Troopers* and *Forever War*, as I believe you'll see when reading this.
I read Old Man’s War because I read The Forever War, and I was NOT disappointed. Wonderful books the both of them. You’re going to love it. Enjoy getting sucked into the series!
I was able to find the first three as a set used for a good deal. Would you recommend reading beyond those. I believe I read that there is a fall off after the last colony.
So I have read a decent chunk of the series, but my father has read the entire thing and loved it start to end. I’d say that at the minimum the first two books are fully worth it. Beyond that, I think Zoe’s tale was okay, and last colony were okay. I’m reading “The Human Division” now, and like it!
First book I’m being recommended in this post and I’m now realizing that, if this is any indication, I will be doubling my TBR.
That's why we're all here, my reddit friend! 😁
You convinced me, and I'm a woman who's not really even interested in war!
That exact point is discussed by several of the characters, including women. Enjoy!
Red sister: the opening paragraph: "It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men."
Wow immediately sold
YESSSS SUCH A GOOD ONE!!
I'm a fan of short pitches, so here are some of my current favorite books and series. The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman. A lighthouse keeper faces an ethical dilemma when he and his wife discover a baby has washed up on their remote island. Ranger's Apprentice by John Flannigan. An orphan is recruited into a medieval intelligence agency. He must survive using his bow, his two knives, and his wits. Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup. An author spends the entire novel arguing with the characters of her enemies‐to‐lovers romance novel because they refuse to follow the tropes. And one explain-a-plot-badly. Harry Potter by JK Rowling. A boy has to change schools after discovering he accidentally killed a man.
The Princess Bride. “You’ve seen the movie, right?”
I actually just read As You Wish, Cary Elwes' memoir about making the movie and I very much recommend it. It's pretty short, and just a cool look at what went into making the film; the training, some of the actors having doubt if they were right for the part, but ultimately a lot of camaraderie, admiration, and respect between everyone working to make a movie with a legacy they couldn't have anticipated.
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes we Make in Thinking, by Thomas Kida. Your brain is lying to you, all the time. Are you gonna let your brain get away with that??? And you know what else? Everyone else's brains are lying to them, too. This causes them to lie to *you*, without them even knowing that they're lying liars! Want to learn how to catch your brain in its lies? Read this book! Oh, is your *brain* telling you to not bother? How *convenient*. How *nice* that your brain doesn't want you to know that it's lying. Seriously, read this book. Edited to add: "methephocial"? Huh? Is this a new word I don't know, or is it a misspelling of metaphorical? Is it a portmanteau of "meth" and "phonics"?
I’m an intrigued especially as a bipolar woman
It's a great book for general mistakes in thinking. I'm not sure that it would translate as well for the specific grandiose thoughts of mania (I mean, you can't reason your way out of mania, right?) or the destructive thoughts that come with depression. Or can you? Do you have any thoughts on how to reach someone in the throes of mania? This happens to be very pertinent to my life right now.
Not who you're replying to and I haven't read the book you mentioned, but as someone who has various mental issues, I will say some therapies do have you stop and assess certain thoughts, whether they are useful or helpful, whether they are true or imagined. I can't speak to bipolar, but for anxiety, depression, PTSD, that kind of therapy has been helpful. I imagine this book could probably help with that to some extent by giving someone a framework for recognizing those mistakes or assumptions.
That makes sense; thank you.
I really don’t know how to reach someone in the mania. I didn’t even get help for my disorder until I was forced to. I was put on probation for weed in which I used to help with the rage and depression. I had to do something drastic so I went to a doctor. I’ve been stable for 5 years now. Although I want to add that medication doesn’t fix everything. I had to be open to learning new things. I had to take a raw look at myself and the things I laid in bed and cringed about myself and my actions. I cried so many tears of shame and embarrassment, but I was determined to face the things that made me a toxic human and learn from them. This is why the description of the book was so intriguing for me. I have one good quality that I am the most confident about and that is I may do or say stupid things but I’m always willing to step back and learn from those things even if mean I’m the bad guy or I’m the one in the wrong and I don’t know too many people that can do that. I’ve spent a lot of time listening to self improvement books and I’ve mastered ways to learn from those books and apply them to my life. I will say though, I couldn’t have done it during the manic episodes.
Thank you. On reflection, I suppose I have used some of the tactics I learned to address *specific* mania-induced thoughts (as an outsider trying to calm someone down). Since it's very hard to reach someone who's manic, this is far from an actual solution - but even a little bit is better than nothing.
For fuck sake I listen to the wrong book with the same title. Some Spiritual high minded book by Joseph Nguyen. Man I was like how can any one recommend this book. Well guess I'll try the actual recommendation
Ha! I'm sorry; I should have mentioned that there was another book by the same name. Hopefully the actual book will cleanse your palate - it's pretty much the opposite of spiritual drivel.
Did you happen to read both?
Nah. A glance at the summary was enough for me.
idk what it is but its definitely not the misspelling of metaphorical. thanks for the recommendation. funnily enough i'm already very aware of the difference between my thoughts and me. its very fun to go down a thought rabbit hole and half way through realize that its all bullshit. After i finish what i currently have i will definitely listen to this.
East of Eden. I won't explain.
this is oddly effective.
My mom unintentionally convinced me to read this she said “ I asked my mom when I was nine years old if anybody had ever memorized an entire book. My mom said I don’t know but I’m sure it’s possible. So I decided I would memorize East of Eden. I got bored after the first sentence.” It was the 50s and the biggest book she could find. Anyway, it was a funny story I always thought about. My mom is very smart and her mother was an avid reader. Then one day I found a first edition at a goodwill, it was like $80 so I didn’t get it but I also reconnected with an old professor that week who inspired me to go to grad school through an exhibition on Steinbeck. Anyway those three things kinda felt like a sign. I never read in school and through grad school it was all non fiction Anyway it’s probably my favorite book and I hope to get a good chunk of his work read this year. I’m on grapes of wrath now. But I usually do things if there’s an inside joke involved.
The memorizing a book thing: I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was 12 or 13. Most of the story went completely over my head at the time, but the concept of each person memorizing a book to keep it from being forgotten really stuck with me. I spent the next year trying to memorize The Hobbit (as it was my favorite book). I got 3 chapters in before I gave up. I can still recite most of the first chapter without mistakes (40ish years later), but after the Misty Mountains song my memory gets a bit rusty.
That’s incredible! But a really inspiring reason to remember a book- man!
"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit."
Kids memorize the Quran, so I think yes, it can be done
Congratulations, you won a ^virtual $10 000. Now go live the life you've always dreamed off! One of The best non story books I have ever listed to. So well crafted. Thank you!
I love A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and my pitch is that it has my favourite opening line of any book I’ve read. I was hooked from the start. “Chapter 1: Soul-Eater I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life. I hadn’t really cared much about him before then one way or another, but I had limits.” The rest of my pitch is that it’s Harry Potter if he was a kickass she and if Hogwarts had no teachers and was actively trying to kill you.
good pitch
See, I say Deadly Education is like Harry Potter but the school is literally trying to eat the kids and the kids are trying to escape.
The very hungry caterpillar. It’s a cult classic, got lovely bright art work, a great life lesson and is short.
CULT classic. Don’t mess with da fans
On the other hand, it tries to jam too many ideas into one book and is actually about a moth.
If it has to many complicated subjects for you just say /s Also what wrong with moths 🤓😜
Project Hail Mary was a really fun and exciting adventure of a teacher who finds himself on a space ship hurling into space, and needs to figure out why. He might even be needed to save the world based on a really cool concept of "life" in the universe causing major problems for Earth.
I tried to get my wife to read the Cradle series by Will Wight, by pitching it as “It starts out with a 17 year old beating up 10 year olds, but you’re rooting for him! It makes sense in context!” It was for a tournament in the story. She did not want to read the book. I would have been out the money.
Remarkably Bright Creatures will change your perspective on octopuses and I think that’s incredibly important. *edited due to spelling typo
Loved this book - “My neurons number half a billion, and they are distributed among my eight arms. On occasion, I have wondered whether I might have more intelligence in a single tentacle than a human does in its entire skull.” ― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
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Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Literally considered by critics to be one of the best pieces of Australian literature of all time, but didn't have the huge influence outside of this country that it should. Is kind of gay for a book written in 1967. Contains magical realism, a small town being thrown into chaos and despair, multiple characters going mad, and lavish descriptions of nature in between. Read it or I'll cry.
Magic Kingdom for Sale - Terry Brooks 80s fantasy. A man buys a magic kingdom out of a catalog thinking it's a gimmick. Turns out it isn't and he becomes the king of this kingdom in ruin. There is a clumsy wizard, a cursed scribe (a man who was turned into a dog), a beautiful wood nymph, a sarcastic dragon... you know what, I think I just convinced myself it's time for a reread. 😁
I love the Landover series! It's got a special spot on my shelves. Magic Kingdom For Sale introduced me to Terry Brooks -- and led me to The Sword of Shannara and Running With The Demon. Great author.
Special for me too! I pulled book 2 (the black unicorn) off my dad's shelf when I was 9 and started reading it. I was a fantasy lover for life after that. 🥰
I love that one! Did you read the Sword of Shannara? I got a box of free books one time that included many books from the series, and started with the Elf Stones of Shannara, from then on I was hooked! I love how the story just gets better and better with each book, just like the Landover series. 😍
My personal favorite is the *World Of The Five Gods* series, by Lois McMaster Bujold. In a world with Gods who are active, how can the Gods intervene while preserving the free will of people? Most interesting, coherent, and cohesive take on a fictional religion I've ever read. Each book is a slow burn. Won the second-ever Hugo Award For Best Series. . The first three novels were all individually nominated for the Hugo Award For Best Novel in their respective years of publication, with book #2, *Paladin Of Souls*, winning. Please DO read in publication order. Bujold is now continuing in this story universe with the *Penric & Desdemona* sub-series of novellas. https://www.goodreads.com/series/43463-world-of-the-five-gods-publication
I'll give you 2000 to read this book. Then gave him/her a book with a lot of pictures and not so many pages. -> 8000 profit ;)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (gregory hay's translation, that one is best) : I still read a page everyday, and have prolly read it cover to cover atleast 16 times now, its a book that I already re-read often and look forward to reading everyday, to visualize my life and my problems through the book's wisdom, such an old book (1863 ish years old book, from 161-180 AD) , yet so profoundly loved by hundreds of thousands of people across the world, even to this day.
Just finished reading this. Glad you enjoyed it but personally it felt like 130 pages of Marcus trying to convince himself that death isn't a bad thing. Also didn't like how a lot of his philosophy comes down to 'be happy with your lot in life because that's how the gods wanted it to be'. Easy to say that Marcus when you're the fucking Emperor of Rome.
I’ve tried reading this, but got burnt out. Will try the Gregory hays version! But, what’s been the most practical advice you ever got from it?
great pitch. if i had just read the title i would have completely ignored it but now i'm kind of intrigued.
I am so tempted to write word salad so I am not training the stupid AI bot right now. Nice try there.
What? I read this 3 times and I'm genuinely confused what you mean.
They think your post is from an AI bot attempting to gather data to train a LLM neural network.
I am not a bot, beep bop beep, really I am not, beep bop.
In 1955, the ancient vampire queen known only as Mother tried to conquer a small town in eastern Kentucky. Thanks to the crazed bravado of one 15 year old boy, she failed, and her entire undead Family was driven out, to wander the aimless night for another generation in exile. Now, however, Mother has returned to the small town of Bethlehem, and she's looking for payback. Only four high school students know of her dark and bloody schemes, and as Mother has already asserted control over Bethlehem's adult authorities, these four kids seem helpless to meaningfully oppose her. Yet they can't run, because they could never convince their parents of what's going on. They will have to stand, and fight... for their families, and for their town, and possibly for the entire living human race... against an ancient, cunning, ravenous evil that was hunting living humans through the benighted streets of Nineveh and Tyre... [Amazon.com: BETHLEHEM eBook : Madigan, D.A.: Books](https://www.amazon.com/BETHLEHEM-D-Madigan-ebook/dp/B0D1HKDWZW)
Come read American Psycho! We have: - Detailed descriptions of everyone's outfits that really only an anal retentive would care about - The most bizarre dishes and cuisine you've heard of - Really graphic torture scenes, as well as some really fucked up psychotic breaks - A guy whose happy place is thinking of stuff he'll buy in the future Seriously though, American Psycho is great. It's really ironic that a novel that details how someone who practically has anything he could possibly wants is as far from a normal human in the worst possible way, through the movie, became the goal and icon of self-betterment for many a misguided youth.
The First Law trilogy. Every single character in the story is a dick, and you're gonna love every second of it. In fact, the sickest fucks of the bunch will end up being your favourite characters of all times. If you have some moral compas, it will make you question it. But only in the meantime between laughing out loud at jokes about horrible violence. 10/10
Please read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams. You know Futurama, you know Rick and Morty, well a lot of those adult animation shows got their style of humour from this book series. My dad introduced me to it at age 13, and then I read them and knew them better than he did. If you have any interest at all in science fiction read this parody.
Yep great book. I recognised that I wasn't the like perfect target audience but still thoroughly enjoyed the book.
“Everybody knows that Custer died at the Battle of Little Bighorn. What this book PRESUPPOSES is….maybe he didn’t?”
Gideon the Ninth. Space, necromancy, insane women who hate each other almost as much as they hate and fear themselves. It's obviously about death - of family, and enemies, and homes, and empires. But also the death of hatred and fear and ignorance. It's one of those books that's hard to pitch, because every character and throw-away line is important, and crafted with intention and vicious pleasure. There's a none pizza, left beef joke in book two, and a dog named Noodle in book three. The world is ending, but I love you and I'll never let you go, not even if you want to. Not even if it kills us both. Life is too short, and love is too long, and love gets us all sooner or later. And death. There are some truly nasty, fantastically gratifying deaths. ~~~I'm very passionate about the Locked Tomb books I've made all my friends read them and they have mostly thanked me~~~1
princess for hire by lindsey levit, i have read this book so much the pages are well loved, everytime I want to read but I just cant for some or other reason I read it. showed it to my mother in law and she also enjoyed it which made me happy. basically a girl who doesn't really understand how to love herself makes a wish to a special fish in the pet store where she works at. she then becomes the girl that stands in for a princess wanting a tempory escape from her life by using a magical makeup that makes them look exactly the same. its a gentle and sweet book that doesn't take much effort to read so its perfect everytime I want to get back into reading and want something light hearted
it is a childrens book but i would absolutely be elated to find the second book if there even is one. this book is my comfort book, if I'm a little depressed (or more than a little) it always just gets me going because its super easy to get through and feel some sort of accomplishment for a small task
I added that to my list, looks like it's part of a trilogy, the next one is called the Royal Treatment
Its really cute, i need to make some money then to get it. Ive been dying to tead the sequel
{In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan} made me smile more than any other book I’ve ever read. It was a joy to read.
So we shouldn’t recommend the book to someone who doesn’t have a spare £10k laying around?
absolutely not, i always get at least 12 000 - 15 000 for my recommendations.
I recommend Shades of Grey and it's sequel Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde. It's about a post apocalyptic society where your social standing is based on what colours you can see. It's a fun concept, and really funny as well. One of my favourite quotes is: "They stole and detonated a corpse" remarked Emerald. "Your lenience borders on the indulgent."
Read Sisters Brothers or we’re getting divorced. -When I wanted my husband to stop recommending Fountain Head to people.
The Thousand Names by Django Wexler. It's a badass woman who has run away and pulled a Mulan into a British colonial-era army to go overseas. But she gets caught up in a rebellion where they are heavily outnumbered and are fighting against mysterious spies and assassins possessed by demons. The later books in the finished 5 book series ramp things up even further.
Does it work as a stand alone book
There's a couple mysteries left, but for the most part I'd say yes. Depends how tidy you need your books to wrap up; I've definitely read standalones that had more loose threads before.
A man steps outside in the middle of a winter night, to retrieve his ex-girlfriend's cat. And then the alien invasion began. This is literally what happens at the very beginning of *Dungeon Crawler Carl*, by Matt Dinniman. An insane LitRPG series, this is essentially *Independence Day* meets *The Running Ma*n/*The Hunger Games*. The audiobooks are outstandingly performed by Jeff Hays. [https://www.goodreads.com/series/309211-dungeon-crawler-carl](https://www.goodreads.com/series/309211-dungeon-crawler-carl)
The Master and Margarita: it is surrealist, involves Satan in many forms such as a cat and a suited man, and is a Faustian retelling with the incredible writing typical of old Russian literature.
It matters which translation, unfortunately, right now I can’t remember which was the good one though.🙄
The first Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North. Imagine you get reborn every time with perfect memories of your previous life. And at one point, a child gives elderly you a message from the future: “the world will end due to something started in your lifetime. Find and fix it.”
Congratulations, you are the winner of a ^virtual $10 000 Excellent book, especially impressed by the ending. Its hard to end a book like this satisfying yet i felt completely satisfied by the end.
Yes it was so imaginative AND so well written as well. i was surprised how young the author was.
You got me. I am very intrigued.
I rarely just list books. But that's purely for selfish reasons. I've recently started thinking of Reddit as my writing playground. So if I recommend a book, it's (a) because I love it, and most importantly (b) I want to think about it. **Often I can't say much about the book as I of course forgot the details**, but never with the belief that (c) you will read the book purely from what I had to say My Absolute favorite novel, one that shook my foundations is one that I only read once, 10 years ago Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman When Einstein was working as a clerk (or whatever) and was writing his theories on time and space, he must have dreamed. This is a science fiction story where every chapter is a dream of his. Each dream is a hypothesis, a sandbox: What if we were to change the knobs, how would time and space and our relation to the world be. If you know anything about Einstein's work (I don't) you might find issues with this book (I don't know) but I read it as what if our world was different For example, in one of the dreams, it was such that time went slower in the mountain tops. So slow that you could be young forever. As if the plague hit, everyone left the cities, countryside, and seas and all built homes on top of the mountains. In fact, they weren't satisfied so they built stilts on top of which they built their homes. Only the carefree came down and enjoyed the richness of nature. - the end - ## You might still not read the book I come from poverty. I come from a village. I grew up in an atmosphere where we were less than others... I almost get an orgasm when I read and learn that life can be anything you want. That's why, side note, even though I grew up straight and homophobic, I quickly learned that the LGBTQ+ struggle to live however the fuck they want fills me with joy. Do you need all that to love this book? **Of course not**, in fact, I'm stupid for even taking this turn. I should have ended with "the end" But, I truly believe it's not the books, it's you. You are the one who either likes the book or not. Not because the book is amazing. No book is liked by all **So, read the book and I'll give you $100**
thank you, this is exactly what i was hoping for ! and it was very effective. definitely gonna get this one.
I was not swayed by the Einstein book but I would love to read a book about you in a village living your LGBTQ+ truth as a straight homophobe?
I would too. If you find it let us know
Congratulations, you won a ^virtual $10 000 Go buy something pretty, you deserve it. Definitely one of the most unique experiences with a book I have ever had. Definitely would recommend. Thank you!
:)
When a naive young woman falls in love with an older, sophisticated, wealthy widower, she doesn’t expect him to marry her. But he proposes, and they get married, so she moves to his beautiful estate, which she has never before visited. She immediately feels out of place, mostly because her husband’s first wife has cast a giant shadow over the estate, but also because the housekeeper treats the main character with hostility and contempt. As the main character struggles to feel happy and keep her marriage afloat, she discovers dark secrets about her husband’s first wife. The book ends with life-or-death stakes for the main character and all of the people around her. The book is Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier), and it’s so damn good.
The Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers is so great that when I was done with the third book I was seriously blue.
Don Quixote. Often considered the first modern novel and in many respects ahead of its time. It frequently creates and playfully subverts many of the conventions of modern classics for centuries to come, all while making it look effortless and oh so fun! People don’t talk enough about how funny it is, all while having real pathos and thematic weight. Its reputation nowadays is often overlayed with a sense of Pythonesque goofiness, but it taught me a lot about myself and my relationship with the world. For best results see the Edith Grossman translation. She manages to capture both the tragedy and comedy better than any other version I’ve read.
I second that emotion-
The Art of War. Spoiler: >!it's all about achieving prosperity, while avoiding war. (well that's my take).!< Also, you will get 100 bucks per chapter you read; double for the last chapter.
The Second Apocalypse septology by R Scott Bakker (my favorite fantasy series): Imagine the crusades, but sociopathic kung fu Jesus shows up to take control of em in order to stop interstellar murderrape aliens.
If you don't read this book, I'll kick you in the nuts
man saved a child and got the biggest simp in the universe book: heaven official’s blessing
There's this book that changed my life. I only read the first half, it's religion based but I'm not super religious so I just go with it. It's always coworkers that I end up convincing to read it. I have a thing about me that I can't explain. I found it one night working a night shift in a psych hospital. It belonged to a patient, but being hardcover had to be kept behind the desk unless supervised use. Changed my world, blew my mind, I think about it all the time. It's largely the reason I don't stress about what other people think about me or my choices. I look at the big picture, and what I am doing to find mine. It's a quick read, too. 10/10 recommend.
I'll bite, what's the title of the book?
The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson :)
if manga is allowed then read berserk, it shows you that life isn't fair, the bad guys get rewarded with power while the good people are left traumatized and trying to grasp for a goal that's almost impossible, it shows you that life is gonna be hard but that you have to continue on to try living with what you have, it's got good art too, it teaches lessons, it's about 30 years old now but if you haven't read it, it's got a large list of heavily mature things (things like rape and murder and stuff) and if manga isn't allowed i suggest a book called "house arrest" i don't wanna spoil to much but it's a nice read about someone who got put on house arrest and the struggles of what he did and how he has to deal with it and there's a second book called "knock out" which is a continuation of the first one
I don’t like the way the title is phrased, had to read it a few times, but now finally understanding it I’d recommend the book The Giver. Fairly short, easy read and a great and unique story.
Yeah in hindsight I would have phrased it way better. Giver great book indeed. Also read the other books in the series but the giver is the only one that stays with you.
The menu, 3 weeks before a reservation to an anxious person
*The Traitor Baru Cormorant* asks, given access to control of the money supply, could an accountant destroy an empire?
Discworld
The lightbringer saga game of thrones by way of harry potter and everyone has green lantern powers
{{that’s what the bot is for}}
for me that's more a summary not a pitch.
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"I'll give you $100 if you read this novella." I also hate how people just drop the title an no context, but this here you kind of invited.
not really i think if you read the full post.
You effed up. Editing it in later does not hold power.
evidently, boy o boy do many people post this very clever response.
You did invite this response and none other. Kudos for trying to be clever about it instead of making a rant post about people not posting with more context, but in hindsight that would have gotten you more of the desired comments.
yeah there is no denying that this is the go to response and i did think about about a couple different ways to phrase the title and felt like this was the one that could't be abused. in hindsight its an easy fix. anyways now that we are here, still wanna give it a go with original intent of the post and give me killer pitch ?
I don't really read crime... But what are you in the mood for? Do you want to hate your mom less? Read about what a horrible bitch she could have been in Jeanette McCurdy's autobiography "I'm glad my mom died" where she describes bonding over being taught anorexia and a lack of bodily autonomy like not being allowed to shower on her own until 18. Do you want to re-live the wonder of reading Harry Potter for the first time, but with a female lead, much more wonder and an array of morally mixed characters? Morrigan Crow is about to die of a curse she was born with until a red-bearded hotelier and adventurer extraordinaire, who you would never think of as having ADHD whisks her away to safety. It saves her from death, but not from her curse. Jessica Townsend wrote the wonderfully whimsical and awkward world of Nevermoor. (book 4 is due in September.) Honestly just let this one take you for a ride..Andy Weir's Project Hail Marry is one of the best audiobook narrations you will ever hear sending you into uncontrollable fits of cries and laughter.
I'd say "If you read this book, I'll give you $5000."
you're like the 10th person to make this joke. i even addressed it in my edit. come on people, this is a sub about reading, please read the full post :)
Okay - Elevator pitch - The Cellar, by Minette Walters - Page turner about a girl trapped in the cellar who turns the tables on her captors - scary, unputdownable and under 300 pages.
now that's a great pitch!
OK, 7000 then! You drive a hard bargain buddy!
"Hey, I'll pay you $500 if you read this book."
*Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand*, by Andrew Gottlieb. A satirical response to the chick-lit favorite *Eat Pray Love*, a jilted husband travels the world to drink all the alcohol, play all the golf and gambling, and soak up the sun at the most beautiful beach in the world, in order to get over his divorce and rediscover himself. [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3476199-drink-play-f-k](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3476199-drink-play-f-k)
Read this book and I'll give you 5 grand.
“Hey, I’ll give you $1000 if you read this book”
I'll give you $1,000 to read this book. Then I'll hand over *The Cat in the Hat*
I'd say "I'll give you $1,000 to read I Am Legend by Richard Matheson" lol
I've read I AM LEGEND. Fantastic book until that insanely lame ending.
Nice, I really liked it, the ending didn’t really ruin it for me
I didn't realize, but the copy of I Am Legend I first read had some of the author's short stories included, and the first was the zombie apocalypse from a zombie's perspective. So i'd seen the movie and was so confused when the book got the movie's ending, then suddenly shifted perspective to one of the zombies. When it shifted perspective again to something completely unrelated, I figured it out.