I've somewhat recently become addicted to audiobooks. Every time I'm in my car or doing something mindless I put on an audiobook. I had a good stretch of one book I liked after another but now am looking to dig a little deeper. The books I've listened to so far were all books that I kept seeing being recommended over and over again.

Dungeon Crawler Carl Expeditionary Force Bobiverse Project Hail Mary The Martian The Expanse The Children of Time The Silo series Murderbot

Am I missing anything that gets consistently recommended?

What would you recommend that would fit with that list?

Other books I've tried but didn't love

Three body problem The Witcher books Wheel of Time

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My primary issue is that the series insults the nuance of the human condition in order to act out the cool ideas of the author and despite the fact that this completely undermines anything the authors cool ideas have to say potentially, the general air of the series comes off like it is saying something meaningful when again the portrayal of humans by the author is so incomplete, fractured and reductive that I don't think the series manages to say anything of substance at all.

Certainly not on the topic of first contact with aliens.

Though both [female] characters are largely defined by the plot mechanics that they set in motion, they still provide a welcome female presence on a show that could have easily become a sexist mess.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/evan-lambert/2024/03/how-netflixs-3-body-problem-fixed-the-books-sexism-issue/

That I think is a good little quip that helps summarize my feelings on the series.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, I see all of that. My love comes from a non-colonialismish take on aliens and the authors display of what I took as views on how their culture views or writes on a subject that is so well worn in the west.

I wasn't looking for deep or well written characters and gave that a pass when it didn't hold up.

Thank you for taking the time to write that out, I hadn't realized I gave it a pass until I read your reply. I had to think about why I didn't notice it at the time.