For me, the first time this happened was with The Royal Assassin Saga from Robin Hobb, and then Metro 2033.

This year, it’s The Witcher saga… (I can’t move on) I love all those introspective books with thoughtful heroes trying to make sense of the world they are forced to evolve into.

Do you have any other book like that?

  • MrFappy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It’s so much better than any of this other writing that it’s actually upsetting. But that series stuck with me for a long time.

    • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Someday I hope to make it past the first book. I have read almost every King novel leading up to The Dark Tower series but I couldn’t get through The Gunslinger and I couldn’t say exactly why, it just didn’t grab my attention like his other works.

  • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    Malazan Book of the Fallen was like this for me. Great worldbuilding. Big ideas and loads of characters. Lots of obscure detail, all the way down to potsherds and verdigris.

    When I finished, I had a powerful impulse to reread the series immediately after finishing it.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I had the opposite with The Witcher, I couldn’t force myself to continue reading it. Andrej Sepkowsky is so horny, I was trying to read it for the story, but it read like some bad erotica, with the stories not having incredibly original or compelling ideas anyway.

    On the other hand, the His Dark Materials trilogy has had a lasting impact on me, very thoughtful and interesting, not to mention entertaining, book.

  • 73ʞk13@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago
    • “The Neverending Story” by Michael Ende as a kid
    • “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien as a teen
    • “The Realm of the Elderlings” by Robin Hobb
    • “The Ea Cycle” by David Zindell
    • “The Manifold Trilogy” by Stephen Baxter

    These books’ worlds absorbed me so completely in the most positive way!

    Though I must admit I’m a fan of rereading anyway. Don’t know how many unknown books I skipped for a reread of know ones. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I binged the Dredsen Files, and after that found it a little difficult to reset. Same for the Dune series.

    Then I binged all of the James Bond books, and by the last 2 or 3 I was more than ready to be done with those.