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03-18-2024, 12:15 PM
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Fiction book recommendations?

I would generally read textbooks in my free time (biochem, physiology, anatomy, exercise physiology, physics, maths and economics). Recently I've decided I might try read some fiction books. I haven't read anything fiction based since I was a child. Perhaps some of you low IQ brahs who read fiction all the time could recommend sometbing?

Vikings, Roman or mediaeval would appeal to me.
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03-18-2024, 12:19 PM
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what about actual fiction from back then like beowolf and aeneid
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03-18-2024, 12:22 PM
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twilight series
50 shades or gray
harry potter
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03-18-2024, 12:24 PM
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Only fiction I read is Dan Brown.


Might as well learn something, even if the plot itself is fake.


The Davinci Code
Angels and Demons
Inferno
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03-18-2024, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted By Khumatmibro⏩
Vikings, Roman or mediaeval would appeal to me.
You may enjoy Mary Stewart's Arthurian series. It's a spin-off of the Arthurian legend written from Merlin's perspective, starting when he's young and continuing as he becomes a famous magician. The books are medieval fantasy rather than typical historical fiction, but they're well written:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43904-arthurian-saga
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03-18-2024, 01:07 PM
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Robert Harris - Lustrum, Imperium, Dictator

Historical fiction, going through Ciceros career through the eyes of his slave, Tiro, including the civil war etc.

Very historically accurate too.

Robert Graves - I Claudius

Historical fiction, somewhat a classic now of Claudiuses reign written from his perspective.
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03-18-2024, 01:18 PM
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lmao at reading textbooks in your spare time wtf???
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03-18-2024, 01:38 PM
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Timeline by Michael Crichton is pretty decent

it's sci-fi meets Middle Ages (srs)
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03-18-2024, 01:41 PM
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Tom Robbin’s is good for a fun read

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03-18-2024, 01:46 PM
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The Bible? The whole old Testament is nothing but lies. The New Testament has some actual events backed by real history books but everything is embellished to hell and back.
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03-18-2024, 02:26 PM
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any john le carre book. he writes about spying and formerly worked for mi5 and mi6 as an interrogator. that's what got me into his work but he is actually an amazing writer
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03-18-2024, 02:29 PM
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lmao at reading textbooks in your spare time wtf???
Lmao rite?


Could you imagine spending your time in a productive way? What a weirdo.
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03-18-2024, 02:40 PM
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I'm about to start reading the book Semi-Tough (later made into a movie by the same name). I was listening to an interview with Quentin Tarantino and he said it was among the most obscene, offensive and raunchy books he''s ever read, and judging by the preview of the first couple pages on amazon, I can see why.


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03-18-2024, 02:41 PM
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Steven Coonts: Flight of the Intruder. Read and re-read it some 20 years ago.
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03-18-2024, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted By Khumatmibro⏩
I would generally read textbooks in my free time (biochem, physiology, anatomy, exercise physiology, physics, maths and economics). Recently I've decided I might try read some fiction books. I haven't read anything fiction based since I was a child. Perhaps some of you low IQ brahs who read fiction all the time could recommend sometbing?

Vikings, Roman or mediaeval would appeal to me.
put all your posts about knowing how to fight together and you've got one hell of a fiction book
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03-18-2024, 02:46 PM
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Thanks for the srs suggestions brahs will check them out.
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03-18-2024, 02:47 PM
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lmao at reading textbooks in your spare time wtf???
While it may be unfathomable for a little pea brain like you, some of us actually enjoy acquiring new knowledge.
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03-18-2024, 02:47 PM
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Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight and his Latro series would be my picks.
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03-18-2024, 02:48 PM
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Lmao rite?


Could you imagine spending your time in a productive way? What a weirdo.
Lol

The irony is that this guy literally just essentially told everyone he's retarded with one sentence.
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03-18-2024, 02:49 PM
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put all your posts about knowing how to fight together and you've got one hell of a fiction book
Get out of here you angry little incel.
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The Founders Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

They are pretty good fantasy novels. The first one is two heist books and third book is a war book. The tainted cup is a murder mystery in a biopunk setting.
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03-18-2024, 03:18 PM
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I liked The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
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03-18-2024, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted By Khumatmibro⏩
While it may be unfathomable for a little pea brain like you, some of us actually enjoy acquiring new knowledge.
To his benefit society we live in force feeds us mindless stimulation in the form of cheap and easy dopamine releases without doing any work to the point we are addicted to it from birth.

The insanity is near impossible to break.
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03-18-2024, 03:23 PM
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American Assassin, by Vince Flynn.

No, not that faqqoty movie - the book. That's #1 in a whole series of them.. Mitch Rapp will take Jason Bourne's lunch money.
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03-18-2024, 03:56 PM
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For historical fiction try:
Bernard Cornwell and his Norsemen series
Bernard Cornwell - Archer Series
Bernard Cornwell - Stonehenge
Steven Pressfield and Gates of Fire
Conn Iggulden - Genghis Khan
David Gemmell - Troy
Christian Cameron - Tom Swan series
Christian Cameron - Killer of Man series
Christian Cameron - Ill Made Knight series
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If you are into Sci-fi and technology, then you should check out Warhammer 40K books.

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03-18-2024, 05:48 PM
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Settled on Bernard Cornwell and the last kingdom series. Thanks for recommendations misc brethren.
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