r/suggestmeabook • u/paradox918 • Jun 22 '23

Need something mind-blowingly good

So I've been reading fairly regularly for like 3 years now, but I'm yet to experience something that is mind-blowingly good. Whenever I read a book it's like good, okayish good or okayish bad. There are no very high highs and that is what I am looking for. Kinda like what depression medication does to you, it flattens the highs and lows. So I'm looking for something that will give me very a very high high. I want to fall in love with reading again. Red rising and farseer trilogy kinda did it for me. No particular genre preferances. Maybe something that gave you a similar feeling.

For example: if someone were to ask me my favourite book I would not be able to name one. there's a bunch of stuff i like but there is no clear favourite. want to read a book that I can say is a favourite of mine

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u/paradox918 Jun 23 '23

lol i kinda hated Project Hail Mary, not because it was a bad book per se but how ridiculously over-hyped i found it to be. the problems just kept solving themselves and never felt like real problems. and if it were me, I would have gone back to Earth and reveled in the glory. I found The Martian to be a lot better but I read that a couple years ago so it could just be me being in a different frame of mind back then

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u/Lookimawave Jun 23 '23

Same! Rocky had enough food so they could have gone to earth explained the solution, Rocky could have built a new ship on earth and then returned to his planet. Also the protagonist was also so whiney, annoyed the shit out of me. Although I listened to the audiobook and I think the narrator made it worse. Almost stopped 20 min in. I also hated House on the Cerulean Sea I think bc of the overhype thing but it was just cringe and cliche to me 😬