What books will I enjoy reading?
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Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
96%
Permutation City - Greg Egan
96%
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
95%
Unsong (Kindle or print edition)
92%
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
90%
Unsong - Scott Alexander
89%
The Orphanage – Zhadan
88%
Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
88%
Jhereg by Steve Brust
88%
Empire V - Pelevin
87%
There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
87%
Blindsight - Peter Watts
84%
Fleep by Jason Shiga
83%
Reverend Insanity - Gu Zhen Ren
82%
A Succession of Bad Days, by Graydon Saunders
81%
Avaunt - AMBLE
80%
The Phoenix Guards - Steven Brust
80%
Songs of Earth and Power, by Greg Bear
80%
Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman
79%
I Claudius - Robert Graves

What books, that I have not previously read, will I enjoy reading by EOY 2024?

Any number of books may resolve YES or NO. Anything I haven't tried by close of 2024 will resolve N/A.

Mainly looking for fiction, which is most of the long-form media that I consume these days. A lucky or skilled suggestion for nonfiction is still eligible.

If you suggest something I've already read, but already liked or didn't like, I will N/A the option immediately, but give feedback on what the result was.

(Rushing this out to beat the end of N/A resolutions being permitted, without which a policy prediction market doesn't work. If N/A resolutions on existing markets are due to be closed down, I may close down and N/A this one early.)

Previous alltime faves:

  • Vorkosigan saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett

  • Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card

  • Across Realtime, by Vernor Vinge

  • World of Null-A, by A. E. Van Vogt

  • A Step Farther Out, Jerry Pournelle

  • So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane

  • Quarantine, by Greg Egan

More things I enjoyed:

  • Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede

  • Lensman series, by e. e. Doc Smith

  • Mother of Learning, Domagoj Kurmaic

  • The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper

  • Penric and Desdemona, Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Chalion series, Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Chronicles of the Black Company, Glen Cook

  • The Fall of Doc Future, W. Dow Rieder

  • Worm, by Wildbow

  • War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull

  • Tschai, Planet of Adventure, by Jack Vance

  • Fuzzy novels, H. Beam Piper

  • Jhereg (and the next few books of Dragaera), by Steven Brust

  • Amber series, by Roger Zelazny

  • Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny

  • Girl Genius, by Phil Foglio

  • Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

  • Queen of Angels, by Greg Bear

  • Neverness, by David Zindell

Previously enjoyed fanfiction:

  • To the Stars, by Hieronym

  • A Bluer Shade of White, Alexander Wales

  • Time Braid, by ShaperV

  • I'm Here to Help, by Mark Doherty

  • Dreaming of Sunshine, Silver Queen

Recently enjoyed reads:

  • Scholomance, Naomi Novik

  • A Journey of Black and Red, by Macanimus on Royal Road

  • The Calamitous Bob, by Mecanimus on Royal Road

  • Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, David Friedman

  • A Clash of Arms to be Eternally Remembered, extreme high-context glowfic by Lantalote and Lintamande

  • Beware of Chicken, Casualfarmer

Things I didn't finish, in part because of paywalls, but read enough of that they'd qualify:

  • Cultivation Chat Group, by Legend of the Paladin

  • Lord of Mysteries, Cuttlefish that Loves Diving

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bought Ṁ350 Unsong (Kindle or pr... YES

Unsong is better than hpmor, you'll definitely enjoy it!!

@TobiasWegener I think the overall "A Practical Guide to Sorcery" series is fantastic. This is the first book of the series.
It is dark, gritty, smart and has hard rules.
I loved HPMOR, Plan Crash, Mother of Learning and in the search for more, I found this one.
Hope you will enjoy it. Love your work.

bought Ṁ100 Answer #a3d4b23c1b71 YES

big recommend to Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's the OG virtual reality fiction, predecessor to Ready Player One and similar

I no longer seem to be able to resolve N/A, which seems unfortunate as I was about to go through these before Manifest. Admin?

bought Ṁ20 Dungeon Crawler Carl... YES

@EliezerYudkowsky yeah, it's limited to mods and up now. if you list the N/A ones out we can N/A them

@EliezerYudkowsky Yeah N/A isn't something the admins let generic users do anymore. Name options in a comment (and probably ping mods) and moderator will resolve them N/A, sorry

@jacksonpolack @Bayesian Thanks boys! 🫡

A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge

He's definitely already read this one.

@EliTyre homeboy oughta resolve it n/a then

Isn't this referenced in the sequences? I assume he's already read it.

It’s pretty helpful to skip roughly the first 45 pages then go back when you’re halfway or more through, to flesh out context.

@SusanneinFrance I tried it on an audiobook and also found it starts slow, any chance you could translate "45 pages" to something like "first 3 chapters" for me? (I don't have pages in the audiobook)

These are the first chapters:

> Prologue. A Silence of Three Parts

Chapter 1. A Place for Demons

Chapter 2. A Beautiful Day

Chapter 3. Wood and Word

Chapter 4. Halfway to Newarre

Chapter 5. Notes

Chapter 6. The Price of Remembering

Chapter 7. Of Beginnings and the Names of Things

Chapter 8. Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

Chapter 9. Riding in the Wagon with Ben

Chapter 10. Alar and the Several Stones

Chapter 11. The Binding of Iron

Chapter 12. Puzzle Pieces Fitting

Chapter 13. Interlude–Flesh with Blood Beneath

Also, I'll try pushing on, didn't know it starts slowly, so thanks for that anyway

@YonatanCale I would begin with Chapter 8 Thieves, Heretics and Whores. This is where our hero himself starts telling his story “from the beginning”

I can imagine the audio book might be delightful

Enjoy!

You haven't read it???

(I dunno how much you would enjoy it now, but I'm extremely surprised someone like you didn't read it in your teens or twenties.)

@ArmandodiMatteo he has read multiple stuff that isn't na'd yet.

@ArmandodiMatteo Source

Of Hofstadter's GEB, Eliezer once wrote:

This is simply the best and most beautiful book ever written by the human species...

I'm not alone in this opinion, by the way. For one thing, Gödel, Escher, Bach won a Pulitzer Prize. Or just pick a random scientist and ask ver what vis favorite book is, and 1 out of 5 will say: "Gödel, Escher, Bach". No other book even comes close.

It is saddening to contemplate that every day, 150,000 humans die without reading what is indisputably one of the greatest achievements of our species. Don't let it happen to you.

Sure, if you're just an average person, you might not understand everything in this book - but when you're done reading, you won't be an average person any more.

Jhereg by Steve Brust

Already in the "More things I enjoyed" section.

I'm not sure N/A ing past read "NO"s is a good idea. Successfully predicting tastes should be rewarded

@girllich I suspect the intent is to avoid incentivizing people to submit things that they already know he has read and liked. Personally, I'd be tempted to submit all of his own works just to mess with him.

@ForTruth that's why specifically NOs.

I strongly suspect that he's read Death Note, since he's referenced the plot at least once. It's possible he's only seen the anime or read the synopsis on wikipedia or something.

@asmith He may not have read that Death Note follow-up oneshot that came out in 2020 or so. That was good.

How do you feel about endings where the main character dies?

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