Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by jszymborski on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:48PM (#34055937)

Easily The City & The City by China Miéville.

The premise is great, the characters are fun, the plot will keep you engaged.

A noir detective story about a murder that happens in the space between two cities which are in superposition. That is, they share the same geographic space, but citizens are forced to live in only one of the cities by a seemingly omnipotent power called Breach that maintains the borders of the two cities.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by bryan0 on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:39PM (#34056604)

Amazing book. I would love to see a film adaptation. I also recommend his Bas-Lag series starting with Perdido Street Station.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by jszymborski on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:42PM (#34056647)

I've not seen it but there's a mini-series adaptation

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7205264/

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by jarno3000 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:52PM (#34084733)

Great BBC mini series. Faithfully follows the book.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by lianna-vba on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:04PM (#34056172)

Besides The City & The City I really enjoyed Kraken and Un Lun Dun by China Miéville.

Kraken is the hunt for a giant squid after it vanished from a London museum.

Un Lun Dun is a young adult story of two friends who end up in a whimsical version of London.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by jszymborski on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:05PM (#34056191)

I'll have to check them out!

I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by lianna-vba on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:22PM (#34056399)

That's funny, I just added Disco Elysium to my Steam wish list yesterday.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by jszymborski on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:25PM (#34056440)

You will not be disappointed! Possibly my favourite game of all time.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by KineticLensman on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:36PM (#34057304)

IIRC Kraken was described as 'an explosion in an ideas factory'. I liked the ideas but about half way through began to wish that Miéville would calm down and explore in more detail some of the characters / concepts he'd introduced earlier in the novel.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by ArcMex on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:52PM (#34055995)

I have heard good things about this book. I have it on my Kindle and plan to read it next year.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by medler on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:27PM (#34057190)

Great book. I read it a few years ago and still think about it often, especially when I’m walking by a homeless person on the street

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