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What are your goto ways to discover new things to read? (self.bookrecs)

submitted 2 years ago by gabe to c/bookrecs

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I have a giant mixture of how I discover new books, but my biggest thing is mainly browsing local library website and their weekly lists of new releases as well as different book review aggregator sites

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[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My current method:

Watch movie based on a book
Read the book
End up enjoying the book more than the movie

Based on this, I highly recommend John Dies at the End and the three books that follow.

[–] Shikadi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

omfg John Dies at the End was one of my favorites! The movie absolutely didn't do it justice

[–] gabe 2 points 2 years ago

That one seems to be a hugely recommended one on here!

[–] Eq0 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you tell me why you like reading books from which movies are made?

I often find that reading a book after I watch the movie constrains my imagination to the images given by the movie, and I don’t like that. Do you ever feel like this?

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

If the book was good enough to merit a movie budget, I feel like it's good enough for me to at least check out.