I listened to the first two on audio book. I’m in the same boat as you, where I thought they were good, and pretty thought provoking, but very bleak, and almost propagandistic, I can’t really explain it though

Cool thing about Dracula is that, because it is in the public domain, and because it is told through journal entries, it can be read in the real time of the entries. https://draculadaily.substack.com/ is a newsletter that sends you emails of the particular day’s entries if you’re into that. It’s already well underway though, but could be fun for a reread next year

I get what you mean. Many classics are that way, especially as we get further from when they were written. I’ve been trying to work through Moby Dick on audio book during my commute, but it feels like a slog. Same with some parts of The Count of Monte Cristo but that has a good amount of suspense that really carries the reader through some of the more stuffy aristocratic sections.

Terry Pratchett is my go to for fantasy, I absolutely adore Discworld. A series I don’t hear about as much though, is the Dragon Weather trilogy by Lawrence Watt-Evans. I highly recommend it!

As far as scifi, I’m mostly in a cyberpunk kick at the moment. I just finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which was quite good. Other than that, I can recommend William Gibson, with the sprawl trilogy that helped define modern cyberpunk.

As far as more traditional scifi, aside from Adam’s, whose work is amazing, I enjoy the Ender’s Game series, but acknowledge that Card was a bit problematic, especially with his later writing having more Mormon beliefs shining through. I also am a fan of Andy Weir’s The Martian and Project Hail Mary. They’re entertaining, but some people don’t like how they perceive his writing to be full of deus ex machina. I enjoy seeing how his characters overcome the problems.

I’ve never heard of Ursula Le Guin, I’ll have to check them out

Hi there, Nice to meet everyone.

I go by GooseDwarf, I’m a tech enthusiast, who also enjoys video games, tabletop games, and reading SciFi and Fantasy. Like many others, I’m working on leaving Reddit, and after seeing people mention Lemmy, and seeing Beehaw at the top of the recommended, decided to give this community a try.

I’m currently reading through Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I’m a fan of SciFi, and cyberpunk especially. This book was on my reading list, and I decided to pick it up while in the bookstore the other day.

So far I’m really enjoying it. It feels a bit more pulpy than some of the other cyberpunk classics such as Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but that’s not a bad thing. It certainly doesn’t take away from the entertainment in my opinion. Not every book needs to have a grand philosophy behind it.