05-09-2026, 06:28 PM
Digital Prophet, post: 2270005, member: 28507 Wrote:Oh boy its time for me to vomit opinions!
I have a sort of weird thing with Brandon Sanderson where I really like him as a person but I have never been able to get into his books. I feel similarly about John Scalzi. Great guy, I follow him on social media, I feel like i *should* like his books, but I just do not.
I totally get that, especially Scalzi. I've only read Old Man's War and Starter villain, the former is still one of my favorite sci-fi series and the latter...well I liked how short it was. Based on those two, I'm morbidly curious what his political stance even is but after I went down that rabbit hole with Heinlein I try to avoid learning about creatives politics if I don't already know their stances. TBF Heinlein was pretty obvious, he just mirrored my own political trajectory and positions too closely, which usually makes me suspect someone might also be a dumbass.
Digital Prophet, post: 2270005, member: 28507 Wrote:I read predominantly fantasy throughout my life starting early in childhood and then about 10 or 15 years ago I just decided that I was done with fantasy. So unless there is a pretty unique hook for the series, I generally skip it now. I mostly read scifi, horror, mysteries, and modern or "urban" fantasy now.
Almost the same for me but it was about 2 or 3 years ago after reading a bunch of grimdark fantasy, everything else feels like I'm reading a children's book now and makes it hard to get invested, that's pretty much what steered me into my ongoing horror binge.
Digital Prophet, post: 2270005, member: 28507 Wrote:Also set during the Napoleonic war, the Sharpe books are also fantastic if you are into historical adventure type fiction. Reading the Aubrey/Maturin series and the Sharpe series together gives you a real sense of the whole thing, since both authors did pretty painstaking research.
I actually didn't think I would like historical adventure type fiction until I got sucked into the Baroque Cycle so I'll definitely look into those. Murderbot has been bouncing around on my radar a lot as well because it's super popular on myanonamouse and frequently gets mentioned in the subreddits I scour for recs as well.