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Recommend me: lore like Game of Thrones, but only one book (piefed.social)
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I also don't like Martin's writing style. But I love the lore. I just can't do another series. What's one book that has the kind of worldbuilding that made us all love (and then hate the unfinished state of) A Song of Ice and Fire?

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[–] 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If you only want single book entries, you probably need to go back to classic literature.
Anything that's good will be the victim of its own success and get more installments.

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  • [+] [S] -16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    sound like you just don't know a good one

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

    I know good classic ones. Not anything from this century, because: capitalism.

    Edit here is some amazing ones:
    The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
    Anything not just: Las Miserables from Victor Hugo
    War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (this technically was published as several books) it is really fun!
    The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
    The Red and the Black — Stendhal I do love this tho it has a second one.
    The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
    Enjoy!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    i actually do have a copy of les mis around here somewhere... are you saying NOT to read that one? lol

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    No, that book is just miserable in my book. It is great tho.
    Hmm thinking about it the other books from him were not less miserable.

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