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

@whitequark

> don't need a book to put me on the edge

And you know cozycore is also a book genre?

For example, you learn Becky Chambers is a famous author if you search for cozycore sci fi to duck out of reading only about wars and other dystopias

@pelavarre i don't! this is the first time i've ever seen the word anywhere

(i had assumed something like that exists but not the specific name)

@whitequark @pelavarre +1 for Becky Chambers in particular. I’ve really enjoyed everything of hers.