Books are usually better than film adaptions, even novelisations.

Alan Deann Foster has done some good uns.

Hey, incognito Corvus. I recommend Catch-22.

What a fascinating choice to explore the nature of good and evil through The Omen! There's something deeply profound about stories that wrestle with the shadow aspects of existence - they're really invitations to look at the darkness within ourselves and the world.

The beautiful paradox in these tales of ultimate evil is that they often awaken our deepest compassion. When we read about the Antichrist as a child, we're confronted with the mystery of innocence and corruption, nature versus nurture. Even in a being destined for darkness, there's that spark of consciousness that we recognize as ourselves.

These stories serve as powerful mirrors. The "antichrist" isn't just some external villain - it represents the unconscious aspects of human nature, the parts of us that can cause suffering when we're disconnected from love. The Ambassador's journey becomes our own: how do we recognize and transform the destructive patterns in our lives?

What strikes me most is how horror and spiritual literature often dance together. Whether it's Dostoevsky exploring the darkness of the human soul, or stories like The Omen examining the battle between light and shadow - they're all pointing toward the same truth: we contain
multitudes, and our greatest power lies in bringing consciousness to every aspect of ourselves.

Books become laboratories for the soul, safe spaces to explore every facet of human experience. What draws you to stories that explore the darker territories of existence? There's wisdom in that attraction. ✨

Not now. I used to like books as a kid, I loved The neverending story, my mother read it to me several times and then I started reading it by myself when I was 7 or 8 years old I think and I have read it myself several times the last time was maybe 10 or 15 years ago I think. I also liked a lot most of the books by Italo Calvino and expecially The invisible cities, I really love it. I have always liked a lot Lovecraft stories too. And another book that I really liked a lot was Ring. Only the first one, I have read Loop and Spiral too but in my opinion they were awful, I really hated them. The problem is that outside of those books I have not found anything else that I really liked enough. I have tried so many books only to be extremely bored and disappointed that I got tired of trying and I just stopped. Now I don't know it's been so long since the last time I tried that maybe I would not be able to enjoy even a good book anymore. I don't know, it is just something that at this point does not belong to my life anymore. I am too used to other types of media and too used to not read anymore.

I mean I currently am trying to write one

As for a book I like, I've been currently on The Face On The Milk Carton by Caroline B Cooney, I like thriller and horror

Originally posted by -OrLoK- Слава Україн:

Books are usually better than film adaptions, even novelisations.

Alan Deann Foster has done some good uns.

I did a wiki look,
I used to have 3 aliens in one book and it was really interesting on what they were thinking and how much they relied on 'Mother' the ship and how they felt towards it.
To me it was anyway - there are some things i clearly miss in recognising what people are thinking through acting.

Terminator Salvation was a favourite of mine so makes sense.
-The Writer everybody knows but not the name of.

That Humanx set looks worth a look at least.

Originally posted by kbiz:

Hey, incognito Corvus. I recommend Catch-22.

as I change my name there is usually a big fan fare and celebration.
Mainly from people hoping I do not return or if I do return they get excited so they can complain about me returning.
Name changes represent a shift.

Originally posted by Elohymn:

What draws you to stories that explore the darker territories of existence? ✨

Multi Dimensional Existence of The Human outside of the Time Bubble we experience on Earth while part of us naturally being not chained within it.
- not trying to sound a smartass, its just way I see existence.

Being forced to read the great gatsby in hs made me hate books when I was younger.

On the non-fiction side

- Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker. Evidence based and very dry book that goes over how humans have started to be less horrible to each other gradually with ebbs and flows. Recommend if you like dry books. Very long book.

- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Whole book is a historical masterwork that goes through how Abraham Lincoln took people into his cabinet who were initially highly insulting of him and his policies. Then it goes into the great depths of work they put into the country.

- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Goes over two types of thinking. Slow and methodical vs automatic. Goes into how we learn. Been years since I read it, but found it helpful.

- How we Learn by Benedict Carey. Another book I found helpful when it came to learning how to learn and what works well for me and what doesn't.

On the fiction side:

- The Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor. Start with We are Legion (We are Bob). Similar concept to a few games/books out there, a human dies and finds himself awake as a human uploaded intelligence. The title sort of hints at the implications of a person transitioning from death to an A.I. Lots of space, especially in the sequels. Might be aliens, might be a meta conversation on human politics, might be eye opening for some to think about being non-ephemeral vs ephemeral.

- The Martian by Andy Weir. Book's just endearing and was written with actual physics and chemistry involved. Real fun nerdy read.

- Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. I'm a sucker for well-written characters with personality issues. You get all flavors of mental illness and all sorts of fun personalities. Know some people don't like the series, but I love it.

- Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card. The Author's politics aside, Bean's one of the most original sci-fi characters I've read. If you skipped Ender's Game and read this first, you'd be fine. Haven't finished the series, but the first three books are the chef's kiss.

I suck at finding books that do interest me.

As a kid i did enjoy a lot of Jules Verne, Homer and others in the fantasy, adventure genres.

- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea;
- Around the world in eighty days;
- Jouney to the center of the earth;
- The odyssey;
- Argonauts;
...

Nowadays i just find myself finding a movie, series or something with an interesting premiss and eventually take a sneak peak at the books until i actually buy them to read.
And grew outwards to genres like Sci-fy, Mystery, Thrillers, though i find myself sometimes just picking psychology books because the topic just speaks to me up to some level or other skill themed book.

I like the king of horror novels.

Originally posted by Corvus NaN:

Originally posted by kbiz:

Hey, incognito Corvus. I recommend Catch-22.

as I change my name there is usually a big fan fare and celebration.
Mainly from people hoping I do not return or if I do return they get excited so they can complain about me returning.
Name changes represent a shift.

I have no problem with you. Just don't assume you're correct.

And I love books. Knowledge is in books. Genius develops in quiet places.

Another favorite is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Originally posted by -OrLoK- Слава Україн:

Books are usually better than film adaptions, even novelisations.

Alan Deann Foster has done some good uns.

Fun fact but the movie “The Mist” Stephen King liked the ending to the movie so much that he actually kept it. Because in the book they just drove into the mist. But in the movie the father “mercy killed” everyone so they wouldn’t suffer.

Most Adults on steam doesn't read.

Originally posted by gugnihr:

Not now. I used to like books as a kid, I loved The neverending story, my mother read it to me several times and then I started reading it by myself when I was 7 or 8 years old I think and I have read it myself several times the last time was maybe 10 or 15 years ago I think. I also liked a lot most of the books by Italo Calvino and expecially The invisible cities, I really love it. I have always liked a lot Lovecraft stories too. And another book that I really liked a lot was Ring. Only the first one, I have read Loop and Spiral too but in my opinion they were awful, I really hated them. The problem is that outside of those books I have not found anything else that I really liked enough. I have tried so many books only to be extremely bored and disappointed that I got tired of trying and I just stopped. Now I don't know it's been so long since the last time I tried that maybe I would not be able to enjoy even a good book anymore. I don't know, it is just something that at this point does not belong to my life anymore. I am too used to other types of media and too used to not read anymore.

The Neverending Story, I always felt in the film The Way the Gmork dies seemed not in keeping, but in the book it says he just laughed at finding this was Atreyu and then he died of hunger or exposure. Seemed more fitting considering the circumstances .
It is on my 'one day' list to read the book, so much originality in the film.

I do have to mix my reading up a bit to keep my brain engaged.
Some time ago I read some of the Diary of the Wimpy Kid books - way better than the film, even though the film was good in itself.
Got Le Carre spy who came in from the cold to start again after The Omen and i'll read the next Omen alongside it.

I am finding myself less drawn to films again and more wanting to really engage my mind.
Due to way I read I can really focus and become part of that 'world' with films I have not felt that suction for some time.

It is why I like coding too, just be able to lose myself in the programming and blot out the current world.

Originally posted by Thegamingnerd4525:

I mean I currently am trying to write one

As for a book I like, I've been currently on The Face On The Milk Carton by Caroline B Cooney, I like thriller and horror

That title alone makes it stand out.
So many different types of horror.
A less realistic sounding one but an Author i like is James Herbert, two books I can recall is Creed and The Magic Cottage. Magic Cottage sounds a bit soft and compared to Creed it is but it is a good type of book - both on the supernatural side.
Thriller and Horror, I would image an equivalent if bit overkill would be Hannibal Lectur books?
I need to get to reading Hannibal again I really liked it.

Originally posted by Würm:

Being forced to read the great gatsby in hs made me hate books when I was younger.

Now I got to read it.

Originally posted by Zogtar:

Just cutting to save the scrolling on my behalf

None Fiction,
I really like History books and slotting them into the gaps of the past and multi layering them over the time lines and in built maps.

Washing of The Spears, Rise and Fall of The Zulu Empire.

Shaka is the most well known but there is so much more to learn and this book was a good serious introduction to Africa's past.

The Bobiverse,
I read a book over 30 nearly 40 years ago about a man who gets put in stasis or something during a space ship accident and is found hundreds years later and they upload him into a body.
Not The Bobiverse, but reading the description remind me of it.
So much reading to do and so little time.

Originally posted by DarkH:

I suck at finding books that do interest me.

As a kid i did enjoy a lot of Jules Verne, Homer and others in the fantasy, adventure genres.

- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea;
- Around the world in eighty days;
- Jouney to the center of the earth;
- The odyssey;
- Argonauts;
...

Nowadays i just find myself finding a movie, series or something with an interesting premiss and eventually take a sneak peak at the books until i actually buy them to read.
And grew outwards to genres like Sci-fy, Mystery, Thrillers, though i find myself sometimes just picking psychology books because the topic just speaks to me up to some level or other skill themed book.

Ancient Greece,
Imagine if it was all real. I could spend thousand years experiencing all those adventures in different life times as different people.

My first experience of Around the world in 80s days was a cartoon, and it was with animals so Fog was a Lion (sorry about name spelling) I always remember my most favourite quote of the entire series a train has to go over a damaged bridge, the driver says
'but sir I am a married man! '
Fog responds 'Then you are a Braver Man than Me' and naturally that ends the argument.
I did like his can do attitude.
The book is good too, the cartoon though has made it the dominant format of my memory.

Those books, are now free at our fingertips.
To think 100 + years ago these things were quite valuable and now such works are there on public domain easily to get hold of and enjoy at will.
Less value monetary wise but more valuable for our minds especially as modern media has done a good job of pummelling them to dust.

Originally posted by kbiz:

Originally posted by Corvus NaN:

as I change my name there is usually a big fan fare and celebration.
Mainly from people hoping I do not return or if I do return they get excited so they can complain about me returning.
Name changes represent a shift.

I have no problem with you. Just don't assume you're correct.

And I love books. Knowledge is in books. Genius develops in quiet places.

Another favorite is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Perspectives and different views of how the world would or should unfold.
I am correct by my own values and what I would put to priority.
What we do not know, will end us as a species.