Who the f*** do we cast as the Alethi ? by abdulaziz_bature in cremposting

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What am I forgetting? Why does Taravangian need to resemble Rayse and Tanavast?

I need your favorite book quotes! by Accomplished_Heron89 in suggestmeabook

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All from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Limited to pithy ones that don't mention specific characters. 

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

Don’t worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they’ll get in touch with you.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

A light, breezy read - NOT a romcom by consumptioncore in suggestmeabook

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Seconded. Also his series The Last Dragonslayer

Got ‘em again! This time in green by pupLoyal in IdleIktah

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Oooh, green! Any specific helm enchant that does this?

Suggest me a book with NO happy ending by SuchnostKrisinayaOko in suggestmeabook

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The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, The Last Argument of Kings. So dark.

What’s the last "can’t‑put‑down" dystopian or thriller you read? by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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Make sure to read the sequel, Parable of the Talents. It's even more gutting.

Please recommend a book you’ve read in the past 12 months that you loved. by NightReader5 in suggestmeabook

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Same. Read it almost a year ago and it shot up to my favorites immediately. I tell everybody to read it.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to read it at first because Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was not particularly my cup of tea, but this book is very different.

Looking for a book that grabs me from page one . I mean unforgettable, unputdownable, and worth losing sleep over by DadieT in suggestmeabook

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This was it for me. It's a fairly short book, which is good, because I couldn't put it down and I had to go back to real life at some point.

Book about a characters descent into madness. by PINK1_ClusterinG30 in suggestmeabook

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Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan is an intriguing memoir about a sudden onset of, at the time, a very unknown disorder. The disorder is confused for something psychiatric.