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What was a book so good that you have ReRead it? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The entire series of Culture books by Iain M Banks, they're just phenomenally written.

Others I've reread at least twice:

Frank Herbert's DUNE series

Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

The Thievesworld anthology series

Alastair Reynolds House of Suns

William Gibson's Jackpot books

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Neuromancer might be my favourite cyberpunk book of all time but so far Jackpot has failed to hook me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The appeal is Gibson's writing, he's developed a lot in the intervening decades. IMO he's a much better writer these days than he was at the start of his career. The plot of the Jackpot books might not hook you as much as the sprawl but his writing is great.

Check out Ian McDonald's River of Gods and Cyberabad Days if you liked Neuromancer, those are in the same vein and exceptionally well imagined. Skip the novella titled Vishnu at the Cat Circus until after River of Gods, it spoils everything set in the India 2047 setting (it's the last thing in the Cyberabad Days collection.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I've liked the Jackpot series, but I absolutely adore the Sprawl series. I also loved the bridge series.