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200 sats \ 6 replies \ @anon 9 Sep \ on: Guy Swann AMA - the Guy who's read more about bitcoin than anyone else you know AMA
Give us your top 3 fiction books of all time. At least one must be sci fi.
The Name of the Wind
Mistborn
and honestly maybe The Martian, i really loved that book. Great pacing and very cinematic in structure.
But this is also an impossible question, because i also consider "best" "favorite" and those terms to be hard to pin down. For example, the films and books I respect more than any other because of the sheer depth of the story and novelty of what they tell, also aren't often the ones I read or watch over and over again. So are they my "favorite" or are the ones I've seen 20 times, and maybe even think are a little stupid in some ways, but love that about them, are they my favorite?
Tons more could make the list that I've loved but only read/listened to a single time; Foundation, Dune, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Dresden Files (silly at times but really fun series), numerous Brandon Sanderson books, etc.
I also find myself diving into fantasy more than sci-fi most of the time. But as is the common trope, "sci-fi is just fantasy with rivets." So hard to say one or the other most of the time, lol
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Solid list. Name of the wind and Mistborn are also some of my favourites funnily enough.
I am also a big fan of the Rivergod series from Wilbur smith for something different if you haven’t read them. Rivergod (first book) may be my favourite of all time.
And I totally get the notion of this being an impossible task, but I appreciate you having a crack at it nonetheless.
Daz
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Mistborn but not stormlight books?! Also do you think book three will come out from name of the wind? We can dream.
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I enjoyed the first Stormlight but it got so huge and involved that it was a little overwhleming. I haven't gotten back to it after the second one.
No idea if we ever see the 3rd book from Rothfuss. I still hold out hope, but it gets harder to justify it as every year passes.
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Book five if the storm light archive comes out in December. There’s still time for you to catch up!
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