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NeverarGreat
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What’s a good book series or something to chase Star Wars for a bit?
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19-Jan-2020, 1:06 PM

dgraham414 said:

If you’re looking for books I highly recommend the first two Myst books! Amazing story and writing, and you don’t need to play the old PC adventure game that they are based on to enjoy them

I’m actually in the process of re-reading these, and I’m partway through the second book (The book of Ti’ana). I remember enjoying them the first time years ago, but this time they feel interminably padded out with detail and are severely lacking in dramatic stakes. Perhaps one could say that this mirrors the feel of the games, but the games had puzzles to solve within this detail, whereas the books just feel…empty.

As for book recommendations in the Sci-fi genre, Neuromancer was fairly good and The Sparrow is really interesting and quite dark. For fantasy, the Mistborn series is solid throughout. None of these are really similar to Star Wars though.