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etirabys · 2 days ago

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My mood baseline has been like 30% higher than usual this past week, because I'm spending 4h/day reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.

I've had bad luck with recs for 'good books' due to divergent ideas of what is good. But I bet people's ideas of addictive books are pretty convergent.

Please rec me the most addictive books/webnovels you know of. No "it's addictive if you make it past the first 150pgs", thanks. I prefer to spend my textual marshmallow points on nonfiction.

#rambl #i mildly disliked the hunger games as a reading experience and DCC is like if someone removed all the parts I disliked #and jacked up the parts I did like 1000x #the metagame; being coerced to go on talk shows; the clever survival tricks; complex relationships w the other survivors #in between fighting for your life you also get pulled into meetings about the lawsuit about the trick you used to survive last time #which has financial & political consequences for the powerful galactic factions who sponsor & run & fight in the game #very long & only a small % of the wordcount is character focused but what you get of the MC is complex and I find it highly enjoyable #big guy with big blindspots! there's one page in book 3 or 4 where he mentions his girlfriend did [insane relationship thing] not once #but like 10 times #and it suddenly makes you understand something about that relationship & what she wanted from him & what neuroses she had #but does HE understand. no. and it's delicious.

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