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ViskerRatio t1_jac32h4 wrote

I'd recommend you try something like self-publishing on Amazon. You have a variety of options depending on how you want to monetize (or not) your work and you'll have a record for IP purposes. Then you can simply provide a link on Reddit (or anywhere else) so people can read it if they like.

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infi_nate86 t1_jac03e3 wrote

Just watch the HBO miniseries, if you have access. I couldn’t finish the book either, but the show was quite good. Admittedly, there’s still a fair amount of her personal life that is covered in the series, but I didn’t mind it as much.

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bibliophile222 t1_jabzutv wrote

I don't really have any book-related guilty pleasures, since I'm not super into any of the typical "guilty pleasure" genres (no shade if you are into them, they're just not for me). I definitely have TV guilty pleasures, though, namely cooking competitions.

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LooseDoctor t1_jabzld6 wrote

The only book I know that’s coming out today is the next installment of the ice planet barbarians which is my guilty pleasure. I don’t typically read romance and spicy usually makes me uncomfortable but I do like IPB 😂

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Superb_Tiger_8376 t1_jabyyrh wrote

Her books are not hated. Many people love them. Just because some snobs on the internet hate it and dudbros who do not want any romance in their fantasy stories but call a guy aka Rotfuss the second coming of Tolkien for writing a thirty page fairy smut fanfiction does not mean they are bad.

Says someone who did not even enjoy the only book I read from her, but for sure there must be something in the books that makes people like them.

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SpiritedCabinet2 t1_jabyyoz wrote

I liked it a lot. I'm guessing most guys don't ever experience grooming, including myself. I rationally knew that it must be a particularly nefarious practice, but this book gave me real insight into what it actually is and its dreadful psychological ramifications.

This book and Catch and kill by Ronan Farrow really impacted me in terms of realizing what women deal with on a daily basis, that I've not even have had to think about once.

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Superb_Tiger_8376 t1_jabyucu wrote

I hate the term guilty pleasure. You ought not to feel guilty about enjoying something that does no harm to anyone.

I read a lot of classics but also silly mangas as a teenager and I would never regret reading them lol

Sometimes, I still re-read the childish mangas and books I loved as a child: Dragon Ball, Yugioh, Eragon, Harry Potter etc.

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Mad_Madman_is_Mad t1_jabxofi wrote

I read children of time and absolutely loved it, I've been avoiding reading children of ruin because I'm afraid that I'm going to read it and it's going to somehow taint the first book for me. But your kind of synopsis makes a bit of sense and makes me also more willing to try to read it? I don't know. It sounds like it can be okay, I have just been too scared to start it lol.

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cheerylifelover123 t1_jabvnfp wrote

Not necessarily with the window part, but try reading "The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks" It's a series of 3 books. Mind you that book is like 15-20 years old, but it's about a guy living off grid for pretty much that reason.

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