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What are some good recommendations for podcasts that are funny or light but aren’t celebrity projects?
It’s often something like this: a long story where an individual meets a weird/creepy person, suspects that person is dangerous, then they “escape” and nothing happens. Then they are like: “WHO KNOWS what could have happened”, “I COULD have been murdered that night”, “hey nothing happened but something eerie COULD have happened!!”
Then you are sitting there, balls blue as they could ever be, just wishing something interesting would happen so you could see the point of the story.
I’m looking for more podcasts about scams! So far I have listened to and liked: The Perfect Scam Queen of the Con Dr Death The thing about Helen and Olga Wild Boys
I didn’t like the Scam Goddess or Scamfluencers
Anyone have an recs for podcasts similar to the ones I like? Thanks!
Update: so many recs! Thanks everyone! I was getting down to the end of my playlist and now I have a ton to try.
My favorites are things like investigations into bridge collapses or building failures or plane crashes due to engineering failures or anything MrBallen would cover. Same with in-depth stories on historical disasters / crimes / etc. I also love scam investigations. I blew through Scamfluencers and Scam Goddess.
I’ve tried a few, but can’t find anything to scratch the itch. Oddly- I have no trouble locating these on YouTube. Just need their podcast equivalents for my commutes.
Thanks!
I’m curious to know how the rest of the world is looking at this. Preferably something not too serious like the BBC, something more laid back and casual would be cool.
I’m driving from NYC to LA and need podcast recommendations that will keep me alert and make my time on the road more enjoyable.
For reference, I like true crime (Serial, Dirty John, etc) and comedy/celebrity (Armchair Expert, Conan Needs a Friend, Smartless). Serial was what I listened to when I drove from LA to Chicago, and it was the best. Made the trip go by so fast.
Thank you for any recs!
Giving recommendations is my favourite part of my job. My best moments are always when someone recognises me, and genuinely thanks me for the book I recommended. And this sub helped me uncover so many good books. It’s also an amazing way to practice how to recommend without giving too much away. I’ve never been good at the elevator pitch.
A lot of books that sell are of course the popular ones. I need your underrated books today. Hidden gems, books you’d recommend in place of the big hitters. I can tell you right now that History is All You Left Me is a way more emotional read than They Both Die at the End, and that I facour Circe over the Song of Achilles, that I’d rather recommend Gideon the Ninth over Six of Crows. These are all obvious. I need the hidden ones. I see too many of the popular books in my line of work and it obscures amazing stories I may miss. Help me out?
So my 70+ y/o mom and her similarly aged friends decided to read sci-fi for the next year. She’s asked me for suggestions, and I don’t really feel comfortable recommending Snowcrash to a bunch of old ladies. Some of them said they don’t like lots of violence, which makes the current selection that includes Hunger Games and GOT somewhat worrisome.
Right now I’ve got:
Any other suggestions?
Edit: You guys are awesome! I’ve got a list to send on to her and a bunch of stuff for me to read too. Thanks :)
Edit 2: I feel like this is becoming ‘name your favorite scifi book’ and not ‘name a book club scifi book. I do appriciate all the recommendations even though Dune, Expanse and Enders Game have been listed about 20 times each.
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I need feel-good books right now. I have never read a book that ever translated to that feeling of pure happiness or joy, which is a wonder. I have read books with happy endings, but the journey is just as important as the ending, and so is it really a happy book just because it has a happy ending? Not necessarily. What is a happy ending? What constitutes a happy book? Maybe it all just boils down to that feeling. The last few days have been anxiety-inducing for me. I don’t want to think and I just want to immerse myself with books—cause it’s all that I can do right now. I need a happy book, a book that simply is, a book that doesn’t try.
It doesn’t have to be in this world, I like fantasy. And it can be any type of end of the world: catastrophic disaster, aliens, world war gone too far,… I don’t know.
I prefer female main characters and I don’t mind if there’s romance. Also, I’m ok if it is a young adult novel.
Hello everyone, my gf of 5.5 years is currently leaving me for a guy she works with, and I’m obviously very upset. I was enthusiastically reading Anxious people as I had just finished A Man Called Ove and absolutely loved it. However I can read no further into Anxious people as it was one of her favorite books, and I can’t get through a page without thinking of her and/or crying.
So I guess my question is, what books do you read when you are overcome with sadness? I’d prefer if it wasn’t sci-fi or fantasy, because while I do enjoy those genres I find it hard for my mind to escape while reality is so overbearing. So any fiction book set relatively in the real world would be much appreciated.
Thank-you so much for reading this, I appreciate all of you.
Edit: apologies to everyone who commented after 11 am est. I’ve been stuck at work and therefore unable to reply. I just wanted to say that I can’t express how much it means to me that y’all …
Hello!
I’m looking for tragedies. Do you know of a book that involves a hero trying to reach a goal, complete some task, or stop an event… but they fail miserably in the final act? I want to read this book. Anything is acceptable, as long as this story has no victory at the end, and the story world moves on without fanfare.
Thanks!
A bit like Persona but without the monster fighting aspect and more focused on the routine teenage lives. Something like Bully but set in Japan and less violent.
I know there are a lot of VNs kinda like this but they’re not interactive enough for me. Ideally I want something that has a 3D open world. I’d also like if it takes place over a school year and you get to experience the different seasons; Spring with Sakura trees, Summer with the sounds of cicadas, etc.
Does this exist?
To get an idea of what I’m talking about, I’m using ZT Online as a measuring stick.*
I’ve been invariably described as “masochistic” at least once in every F2P that I’ve bothered to stick around for more than a month (hey, it’s not my fault a Skinner box accidentally made good gameplay mechanics to pair with it), and I feel like the adjective’s unwarranted, all I really did was not pay to win. So, I’m morbidly curious to know if there’s anything out there that would test even my patience. I want to play an F2P that would actually justify the use of the word “masochistic” if I stuck around it for too long (and I grew up with the likes of Guilty Gear and beatmaniaIIDX, so that’s already a pretty high bar of masochism there).
*^(if you’ve never heard of it before and can’t be bothered with the article, it’s a now-defunct Chinese …
Skyrim was massively popular and yet I don’t know a single game like it to come afterwards that actually has good budget, lots of content and looks nice. Meanwhile, there have been probably hundreds of third person RPGs of that sort.
What’s the reason for that, or am I just missing something huge? The other criteria I’m looking for is being able to create your own character, I’m not counting games where you play a premade character in a linear story.
* Journey
* No Man’s Sky
* Flower
* Abzu
* Death Stranding
* The Pathless
* Gris
* Everything
* The Last Campfire
* Arise
* Omno
* Windbound
* Spiritfarer
* Steep
* RiME
* Superliminal
* Little big planet 3
* Spirit of the North
* Everybody’s Golf
* Donut County
* Walden
* Gorogoa
* The Unfinished Swan
* What Remains of Edith Finch
* Truberbrook
* I Am Dead
* Train simulator 2
* Islanders
* The Crew
* AER: Memories of Old
* Concrete Genie
* Ticket to Ride
* Golf Club 2
* Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey (Discovery Tour Mode)
Stuff like Axiom Verge which felt like it was made by a team judging from the amount of content it has. Looking for no particular genre, just on the lookout for quality stuff so I can support the delevoper
EDIT: Thanks for the recommendations! I’ve been going through your lists and watching short clips of gameplay to see if I like them. I didn’t realize that I already played a good portion but I’ll make sure to check out each and every one.