I’m going on a business trip soon and I’m looking for a book to read on the airplane and when I catch a break in the hotel. I’m agnostic about genre or even whether it’s fiction or non fiction. I’m looking for a book that introduced you to ideas that stuck in your mind and had you mulling them over for weeks or months. I love to learn and explore new ideas/concepts/viewpoints, so that’s the kind of book I tend to enjoy the most. Two recent books I’ve read that could fit this category would be Altered Carbon (I love the way it explores the relationship between wealth and longevity and the way our physical bodies affect our thoughts and relationships) and The Name of the Rose, which I’m still working on how I would describe. Looking forward to your recommendations!
by Gigeren_Canvas
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I’m thinking of ending things by Iain Reid
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (modern fiction)
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (sci-fi)
Tigana – Guy Gaverial Kay (Fantasy)
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville (Classic)
The Hot Zone – Richard Preston (Non fiction)
The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Western)
I have just read the man who saw seconds, it’s only 300 pages long, I loved it and read it in 4 days, a man gets to see slightly into the future, it goes into the existence of free will and changing fate, it made me really think about the philosophy of those things late into the night, the man is in his 30’s and is married, but it isn’t a romance and more focusses on family, it has great action throughout and keeps its fast pace, although you should look into it rather than take my word for it.