Which book would you recommend me as my first ever book?

  • ThunderQuack@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What kind of fiction do you like? As a sci fi nerd Ender’s Game is the book that made me love reading.

    For a lot of people it was Harry Potter or Hunger Games more recently.

    Honestly if there’s a movie you love that was adapted from a book give the book a go. You know you like the story - it’s just a more detailed take.

    • s804@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      yeah i love all kinds of movies like harry potter, hunger games, lotr, and some sci-fi stuff. i loved harry potter growing up so i feel that the books would be too childish for me now.

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        1 year ago

        I loved David Eddings as an easy read with a good story. It was my start into reading fantasy. Feist’s Magician is another brilliant book and the beginning of a long adventure.

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          1 year ago

          Magician is really good yeah :) I remember lying outside in the garden a summer reading through the series :)

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          1 year ago

          Magician was going to be my recommendation. I’ve got 2 people into reading that weren’t readers by giving them this book.

          Really good story that you can’t put down.

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            1 year ago

            Feist commands a significant portion of my bookshelf. He is brilliant. I rate him as my favourite fantasy author, with the late Ian M. Banks as my top science fiction author.

      • ThunderQuack@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        The Harry Potter books are a bit kiddish but that’s largely motivated by Harry being a young character. They tend to mature as you read through them and a good trait of kiddish books is they’re easily digestible. If you want to try something similar feeling to Harry Potter but new to you check out The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - it’s the first Percy Jackson book. You can read the 5 book series or there’s so many spin offs now you can spend a long time in that universe

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        I just read them alongside my daughter, having previously skipped them in favor of the movies. I’d actually say they’re a perfect entree into reading for pleasure, and while hardly Faulkner or James Joyce, they’re sophisticated enough that you won’t feel silly, and the writing subtly grows with the characters (and the original audience), so the last book is longer and denser than the first, though again, it’s not trying to make you dance with the prose or analyze the book in order to glean any enjoyment.

        Jo Rowling is who she is, as a writer and a person, and I won’t judge if you find a way to read them for free, but she really did assemble something magical with that original run of books.