✧✦Catherine✦✧Mar 16

i'm considering asking people to recommend me bad books

it's easy to get people to recommend you good books! however, good books make me feel things, often quite intensely. i think usually this is appreciated however i am living what is considered an "interesting life" already and i really don't need a book to put me on the edge in addition to all of the things that normally put me on the edge, like "stalkers" or "immigration" or "wondering if someone i know got shot", etc. similarly i have thought enough about the nature of identity that i'm quite done with it for a while.

most recently i have read Blindsight, which was a good book, but it made me conclude that if i have to choose between another good book and 10 hours straight of youtube shorts, the latter will passively benefit my life by not taking up more of it than i can spare

please recommend me your favorite bad book

Show threadPokemod97Mar 16
@whitequark I mean there are like entire genres of fun reads that aren't challenging at all. Romance(primarily straight though kindle and kobo have a bunch of lgbtq versions of the genre) and litrpg which are literally book version of the number goes up feeling.
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧
@Pokemod97 yes, my issue here is specifically with the phenomenon of "ask someone in my environment for a book recommendation" → "get flashbanged for three days"
Mar 16 at 3:21pmWeb
Show threadPokemod97Mar 16
@whitequark Ah in my experience turn off your brain books are perfect for recommendation algorithms. Flashbanged are human recommendations almost entirely defined by their nature. I have read 12 romance books in a weekend and enjoyed it but couldn't tell you the title when I'm done.