My current method:
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Watch movie based on a book
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Read the book
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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.
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omfg John Dies at the End was one of my favorites! The movie absolutely didn't do it justice
That one seems to be a hugely recommended one on here!
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?
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.
Osmosis.
I don't actively seek out books to read - I just keep my eyes open and stumble across more than enough of them.
Same!
I enjoy talking about books, so I end up sharing favorites and news with a lot of people. Usually, I get more recommendations than I’m able to read.
Recommendations from friends and people I follow online, mainly. I follow a bunch of authors and narrative designers and between all of them I haven't ran out of books for my wishlist yet!
In addition to “osmosis” that the other user mentioned, which is my main way of finding new stuff: I subscribe to a newsletter about new releases that comes each Tuesday. Also from friends with similar tastes in reading, and a lot of time from checking the works cited and recommended reading sections in nonfiction books.
I try to take recommendations from multiple places:
Friends and family
Goodreads
Social media/online personalities I enjoy
Algorithm recommendations (other people who bought that book also bought...)
And my personal favorite: wandering around in a bookstore until a title or cover catches my eye
This way I get recommendations with some context (this book is similar to another book I liked, or, Mary has good taste in fantasy books and highly recommends this one) and also some room for serendipity to find something I might not normally read.
I love window shopping at barnes and noble, especially taking pictures of books to later get at the library
I browse TV tropes and then if a book sounds cool enough I put it on my to read list.
It's most from recommendations. From a friend, or online (previously reddit, now lemmy). Historically, my way to choose a book, is if I like something from a author, just start going through their full bibliography. So, a single recommendation of a new author can last me a long time.
These days, I am getting recommendations from our weekly "What are you reading" threads over at !books@lemmy.world. So many books are mentioned each week, my books wishlist has already grown quite a lot from it.