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(DIR) Post #AxbWy2GQ2IlIKsA0xc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T19:10:24Z
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What are your "comfort reads" ?For me it's Alastair Reynolds ... when he's doing the "cyber noir" thing. I'm reading "The Prefect" again and it's just such a nice escape. One of the major plot points is a very relatable bit about doing a system upgrade and the world ending because basically the wifi went down. It's not a comedy at all. It's a detective thriller with cyber/sci-fi themes.
(DIR) Post #AxbXG5sjK7IUljguX2 by phaedral@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T19:13:35Z
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@futurebird Siddhartha. Pretty much any Nero Wolf. A hatful of Heinlein titles. Zelazny's Amber books and Lord of Light.
(DIR) Post #AxbXTfkLI4tDlYF6MC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T19:16:07Z
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But it does have these moments that kind of make you chuckle because I just know Reynolds must have done tech support.So he has this life and death version of it and it's a joy.
(DIR) Post #AxbXgkMzPd5jryYP3I by Stratski@mendeddrum.org
2025-08-27T19:18:21Z
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@futurebird The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. I re-read two or three of them every year. I must have read the entire series at least three times by now.
(DIR) Post #AxbXq5CNLBdJ4j2bOS by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-08-27T19:20:08Z
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@futurebird Possibly Discworld books for me. It's definitely a comedy and it has its dangerous moments, but it's just so overall silly and fun that you know the good guys are going to win and you know you're going to have laughs along the way with a poignant point or two here and there.
(DIR) Post #AxbY342GyYrvEVVOuO by erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social
2025-08-27T19:22:27Z
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@futurebird I re-read the entire Vorkosigan saga in temporal order
(DIR) Post #AxbYRs1OmU1RDAvQ4e by GGMcBG@mstdn.plus
2025-08-27T19:26:56Z
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@futurebird Clive Barker
(DIR) Post #AxbYsOPKzc0VBUlkdE by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-08-27T19:31:45Z
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@futurebird When the pandemic began, I reread all of Jane Austen’s novels.
(DIR) Post #AxbYwXI7uBwZtYN7ZY by mcc@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T19:32:28Z
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@futurebird The two standalone qntm books ("Fine Structure" and "Ra"), Patricia A McKillip in her dark fairytale mode.Reynolds is always really satisfying. "Revenger" and "Eversion" are two slightly atypical novels he published around 2020 that are somehow nautical adventures, definitely don't miss those if you're into him already and are looking for snackfood
(DIR) Post #AxbZ5JMB5EQ5HeS2Pg by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-08-27T19:34:04Z
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@futurebird I'd second the Terry Pratchett fans here.Also have read C.J. Cherryh's "Chanur" series several times, so I guess that counts.And of course, there's Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", which I've probably read a dozen times over the years.I've read all of those aloud, BTW. Very smooth prose. (Well, except for the Kif, but listening to me try made the kids laugh, so that was alright! 😅).
(DIR) Post #AxbZubEKOFdnUBEffk by teamseaslug@hcommons.social
2025-08-27T19:43:20Z
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@futurebird I'm reading Becky Chamber's The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet right now, and while it's my first time reading it, it is providing a great deal of comfort as it is a cozy, kind space story.As for something I come back to, I've been returning to the Delicious in Dungeon manga as I've become more and more stressed. It's lovely, and kind, and has so much delicious looking food.
(DIR) Post #AxbaDI4ppDhlaMhxHk by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-08-27T19:46:41Z
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@futurebirdWell now i know what I'm reading next
(DIR) Post #AxbbmwoYSLSQ1Iex3Q by Wlm@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-27T20:04:23Z
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@futurebird Murderbot. I’ve re-read them a few times whenever a new one came out. And LotR.I’ll give Reynolds a try too. Revelation Space was okay, but didn’t get me hooked yet.
(DIR) Post #AxbcNIYX6BvdsKUz0y by mojala@mastodon.online
2025-08-27T20:10:56Z
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@futurebird My comfort reads are quite a few. But some are,in no order: LOTR. Dan Simmons - Summer of Night read it also as child and I crawl back to it every now and then. Bone, by Jeff Smith. Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea. Banks - Crow road.
(DIR) Post #AxbeioH6Z0hcEtjSPw by inrglo@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T20:37:15Z
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@futurebird Doctorov: Ragtime, Peter Sheridan: 44, Dublin Made me, and Sigfried Lenz: So zärtlich war Suleyken.Ragtime is a historical novel about a fictional family that is connected to just about anything important happening in the US around 1900. After reading, you feel like you've been there. It also contains an hommage to Kleist's tale of Michael Kohlhaas. 44 is an autobiographical novel about growing up poor in Dublin in the 60s. It's intensely honest and personal. (1/2)
(DIR) Post #Axbm7iYDgK4bPCYsDo by jadp@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T22:00:08Z
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@futurebird the Dancers at the End of Time series by Michael J. Moorcock — I see far reaching personal wireless networks and nanotechnology and unlimited energy and satire against any type of ruling classAnything written by Ursula K. Le Guin
(DIR) Post #AxboUSbJLkQ0VPyo9w by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-08-27T22:26:39Z
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@futurebird anything by Effie Calvin or Anna-Marie McLemore when I just want to read something sweet or bittersweet.Or by Kaye Draper when I just want to read something fun (and/or smutty).
(DIR) Post #Axd1SKd9VOH3ll7Gm8 by adrianh@mastodon.social
2025-08-28T12:26:41Z
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@futurebird Patrick O'Brian Aubrey–Maturin series. So many times I start Master & Commander coz I'm feeling a bit shitty… and then two or three months later I'm getting surprised by the end of 21.That and random Terry Pratchett.