For me: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
I had seen the movie but never read the book before. It was a lot better than I expected.
Also what is your current/next book?
I’m continuing the saga with The Restaurant At The End Of The Galaxy.
For me: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
I had seen the movie but never read the book before. It was a lot better than I expected.
Also what is your current/next book?
I’m continuing the saga with The Restaurant At The End Of The Galaxy.
The audiobooks for HHGttG are quite good if that’s your sort of thing. Stephen Fry does a great job on the first one. I didn’t quite like the voices in the other ones, but they were still overall well done.
In the middle of reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, by Brandon Sanderson. I haven’t read any of his stuff other than his completion of the Wheel of Time series. I saw that Tress is a good standalone book in the series so I figured I’d try that out. It’s good so far, but seems rather YA compared to what I assume the rest of the series is like.
I haven’t read his YA but I’m in the middle of Stormlight 5, and yeah it’s not YA. His adult books are generally the sort that you’d be comfortable giving a teenager but they deal with heavy stuff like class conflicts, cycles of racial violence, and ethical questions.
If you’re interested in a stand alone of his adult books I’d recommend Elantris or Warbreaker, though both will get sequels later, neither was written knowing that.
Don’t forget themes of depression and deep emotional trauma!
True, every book has a major character with major trauma.
And Mistborn dealt with systemically rooted sexual violence in a way that was shockingly well handled, including the way that it just demolished the mental health of everyone involved except the sociopathic