A lot of people hate Where the Crawdads Sing and i completely understand why but i LOVE the book
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In Arabic الاخلاق و السير في مداواة النفوس
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**Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir**. This is very much a love it or hate it kind of book. You need to have the same kind of sense of humor as the author, and ideally also share the author’s knowledge of memes in order to like it. I absolutely *adore* the whole series and find it very impressive how the author writes in multiple completely different styles.
**Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams**. This was an influential early cyberpunk novel that went on to inspire lots of other authors, such as the tabletop game Cyberpunk which was in turn adapted into the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Despite its importance to the genre, or perhaps because of it, when you read it now it feels kind of generic and predictable in some ways, but at the time I’m sure it was innovative. Good gay representation, but the transgender representation is a bad stereotype. Overall, a fun read but it definitely shows its age.
Not a novel, but a short story. [Tongue by Ashok K. Banker](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tongue/). I think this story does a good job of showing how the oppressed participate in perpetuating the systems that oppress them, without realizing how horrifying it is. However, I have heard this story shows a very steretypical, exaggerated version of Indian culture. I know nothing about India, so I was completely oblivious to that.
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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: This is a guilty pleasure for many people, including me. It’s a paranormal romance between a human girl and a vampire boy, and it has a lot of flaws, such as weak writing, problematic themes, and unrealistic characters. But it’s also addictive, entertaining, and romantic, and I can’t help but love it.
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A lot of people hate Where the Crawdads Sing and i completely understand why but i LOVE the book
In Arabic الاخلاق و السير في مداواة النفوس
**Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir**. This is very much a love it or hate it kind of book. You need to have the same kind of sense of humor as the author, and ideally also share the author’s knowledge of memes in order to like it. I absolutely *adore* the whole series and find it very impressive how the author writes in multiple completely different styles.
**Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams**. This was an influential early cyberpunk novel that went on to inspire lots of other authors, such as the tabletop game Cyberpunk which was in turn adapted into the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Despite its importance to the genre, or perhaps because of it, when you read it now it feels kind of generic and predictable in some ways, but at the time I’m sure it was innovative. Good gay representation, but the transgender representation is a bad stereotype. Overall, a fun read but it definitely shows its age.
Not a novel, but a short story. [Tongue by Ashok K. Banker](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tongue/). I think this story does a good job of showing how the oppressed participate in perpetuating the systems that oppress them, without realizing how horrifying it is. However, I have heard this story shows a very steretypical, exaggerated version of Indian culture. I know nothing about India, so I was completely oblivious to that.
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: This is a guilty pleasure for many people, including me. It’s a paranormal romance between a human girl and a vampire boy, and it has a lot of flaws, such as weak writing, problematic themes, and unrealistic characters. But it’s also addictive, entertaining, and romantic, and I can’t help but love it.
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