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What's a book you really enjoyed, that you feel like no one else on lemmy has read? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by ericbomb to c/[email protected]

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I read some free kindle books back in the day, that probably only a few thousand other people have read, so very plausibly no one on Lemmy has ready.

So, what books have you enjoyed that you feel confident no one else on Lemmy has read?

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[–] didiercool 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hear this a lot... But I really enjoyed Children of the Mind. I'm guessing people mostly don't like it because it feels like it lines up too much with some LDS stuff.. but if you just ignore that, or are blissfully unaware as I was when I first read it, it can be great and thought provoking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's about when I checked out. I couldn't tell you exactly why anymore but it just felt like the series had lost track of itself at that point.

But as long as you enjoy it, that's mostly what matters, and for what it's worth I don't think people really have a beef with him over the Enders series. More like the ones where he tries to say society will collapse because The Gays