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    I’ve read Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch three times, currently reading The Color of Magic for the first time and then I’m going to re-read Mort

    I’ve read Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game three times, but that was for school. Pretty good children’s mystery book, though

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    There are so many, but here are a few from the top of my head:

    The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien.

    The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.

    Time Enough For Love, Robert A. Heinlein.

    Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein.

    Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes.

    Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.

    Dune, Frank Herbert.

    Paradise Lost, John Milton.

    Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke.

    The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist.

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        Yeah, “Time Enough For Love” ended up on that list mostly because it’s so different. That made an impression on me when I read it in high school, in the way of “Huh, I guess it’s actually possible to write a book like this”. It had a lot of interesting ideas but the narrative sprawls around pretty wildly.

        Riftwar Saga basically takes Tolkien’s Middle-earth setting and mixes it with our own world’s Middle age cultures, plus magical stargates and an invasion from an another world. It’s not a ripoff in any way, it carries it own story proudly but the similarities with names from Tolkien’s works was a bit distracting at first. These were the first books I was able to read entirely in original English in my early teens.

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          Will have to give it a shot.

          Redoing storm light now, didn’t love it the first time, but it was OK and I forgot most of the details when the 4th book dropped. It’s not bad but I don’t get why others are so crazy about it.

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    The bone comic book omnibus from Jeff smith Bone omnibus amazon link

    The book is basically Tolkien+Disney, it is aimed at a kid audience but it tackles some heavy topics that adults will enjoy, its great because it tackles metaphysics a lot in ways that are interesting for all ages.

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    Lockstep by Karl Schroeder Hard sci-fi about how a intergalactic empire being run without developing any faster than light technology.

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    The Martian. I’ve read it twice, and would love to read it again. It’s so good.

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    Synchronicity because I just put a book on hold at the library that I’m going to read again. It is called “Galileo’s Dream” by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it’s half historical fiction, half science fiction about: “what if future humans living on the Galilean moons of Jupiter discovered time travel and needed Galileo’s help?”

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    I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.

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      I’m going through the Discworld series for the first time right now. I’m going in chronological order but when I finish I’ll probably go through them again eventually but I think I’ll do series instead in bunches. I’m already looking forward to rereading the Watch series back to back.

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          Yeah there are like 40 of them but you can split them up in to series. If you liked The Truth you’ll probably like the Watch series starting with Guards! Guards! and following Sam Vines and the other Watchmen.

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        On my third pass right now. Skipped a couple of the first novels, but I love the original order. Got feels for all the series, but I like the perfect way he kept them mixed up.

        “Oh shit! Another witches book!”

        “Back to the Watch! NICE!”

        “Rincewind? Hell with it, those are all funny as hell.”

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      Third run through Discworld in the past 2 years. My god, been trying to think how to explain to my best friend. I lack the words.