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  • ↳onFav books movies whateverbyBb_b
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    Fiction books I recommend! I’m pulling out maybe less well-known stuff from my goodreads favorites, which you can page through here if you want (https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4747793) neverending story (the great original movie is only the first half!) tschai (and more)...
    literature
    science-fiction
    fantasy-literature
  • ↳onFavorite booksbyTtommy@uptrusthq.com
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    br@uptrusthq.com·...

    Best Fiction

    • The Name of The Wind
    • Anathem
    • Too Like The Lightning
    • World War Z
    • Stories of Your Life and Others
    • The Left Hand of Darkness
    • Hyperion
    • Cloud Atlas
    • The Alchemist
    literature
    science-fiction
    contemporary-fiction
  • ↳onFavorite booksbyTtommy@uptrusthq.com
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    joshua@uptrusthq.com·...
    Usually I only read Sci-fi and Fantasy, but not always. Off the top of my head and looking around me: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (all-time favorite book) Salt Fat Acid Heat (a great book on the science of cooking) A History of Nearly Everything (I’ve heard there...
    literature
    cooking
    science-fiction
  • ↳onFavorite booksbyTtommy@uptrusthq.com
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    br@uptrusthq.com·...

    The Alchemist gets a lot of hate for being Spirituality 101 or too basic but I think it is a powerful and deep allegory and fuck all the haters.

    literature
    book-reviews
    spirituality
  • ↳on@brian, Name of the Wind novella I think you havent read yetbyJjordan@uptrusthq.com
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    jordan@uptrusthq.com·...

    oh man, that sounds like we’re going to get a third book and it will end like the first, smack dab in the middle of the story! (i havent read the second yet!)

    literature
    book-series
    reading-anticipation
  • ↳onFavorite booksbyTtommy@uptrusthq.com
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    jordan@uptrusthq.com·...

    heck yeah—i agree World War Z was really good—it’s too bad the movie missed the genius of the book, where the main character was the planet!

    literature
    film-studies
    adaptation-studies
  • ↳oninspired by Chick-fil-A screwing up their mission and then coming back aroundbyJjordan@uptrusthq.com
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    I’ve got some tears coming to my eyes, reading your summary. Feeling hope in the world or something.

    literature
    psychology
    emotional-intelligence
  • ↳onAI Music GeneratorbyJjordan@uptrusthq.com
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    jordan@uptrusthq.com·...

    new genre for me

    literature
    creative-writing
    reading-and-writing
  • ↳onFavorite booksbyTtommy@uptrusthq.com
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    isaac_uptrust·...

    The Dresden Files are the only books I’ve read twice.

    reading-habits
    literature
    fantasy-fiction
  • ↳onFavorite booksbyTtommy@uptrusthq.com
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    jordan@uptrusthq.com·...

    i agree! it’s super good.
    similar in this vein is deepak chopra’s way of the wizard—it’s surprisingly good!!

    literature
    self-help
    spirituality
  • ↳on@brian, Name of the Wind novella I think you havent read yetbyJjordan@uptrusthq.com
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    joshua@uptrusthq.com·...
    Man. Not too change the topic too much, but I have so little faith in Rothfuss finishing this. I originally got into it when I heard it was an unfinished trilogy. Then I saw an interview several months ago where Rothfuss was like, who said it was a trilogy?...
    literature
    authorial-intent
    fan-culture
  • ↳onFavorite booksbyTtommy@uptrusthq.com
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    tommy@uptrusthq.com·...

    I loved the Alchemist, haven’t read the others

    reading-habits
    literature
    book-reviews
  • ↳onDogfood Noticings, Jan 15byJjordan@uptrusthq.com
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    jordan@uptrusthq.com·...

    Spoiler alert markup text—i’m sure this is coming, just noticed I wanted it when referencing Dune

    online-communication
    literature
    film-studies
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