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If you haven't read the Silo series, I am on book 2 and enjoying it. It's dragging a bit at the end of two, but worth a read.

Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy was quite quite good. Everyone sucks and it's hard to cheer for anyone, and it's great.

Martha Well's Murderbot Diaries are great. Shorter stories that are like episodes in a series (you can often read it in an evening) and feels like Netflix show.

Books I read recently that were a slog and did not enjoy but have good ratings on goodreads/amazon:

Nicholas Eames - Kings of the Wyld. Boring. Was difficult to finish and I didn't like any characters.

Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Moon. What a slog. Very technical. Starts off intriguing and then just drags and drags and drags. But she does create some awesome visualizations through description of Mars in the mind, so it has that going. Very smart book. Maybe I am too dumb.

John Scalzi - Old Mans War. I dunno, didn't hook me. Seemed like many stories I have read over the years. Didn't feel all that original.

Andy Weir - Hail Mary. Oh boy, after reading Mars I was excited for this one. Not even remotely as good. His writing style is technical while being too casual at the same time. I struggled to visualize the story as I was reading it. In the end, I just said, what was the point of this story.