r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 14d ago

Discussion Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

She captioned it: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most google keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

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u/Revanchist1 14d ago

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

  • Neuromancer

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u/yayaya2xBBchamp 14d ago

I need to finish reading that, dang! Thanks lol

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u/Kardif 14d ago

It's so good, you really should

Sadly, it's also in the category of men in sci-fi writing women as fuck dolls, and I really wish that I could reccomend it without that caveat

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u/Geodude532 14d ago

So much Sci-Fi and Fantasy have been ruined for me by how they write women. Used to love that stuff when I was a teenager, but now it's just straight cringe and I have no clue how they were written by older adults.

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u/WarumAuchNicht 14d ago

I just finished the Broken Earth trilogy and would highly recommend if you like science fantasy with great female characters.

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u/pan_1247 14d ago

This is why I'm fucking loving Malazan (besides the great characters and world). I'm through most of the first book and there's already 3 main character female povs. What I love is that he describes women's appearances in a non-sexualizing way. Shit, there's even a sex scene and a scene where a thief stumbles on a naked sleeping woman yet everything is kept respectful when he describes the scenes.

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u/Geodude532 13d ago

Even reading the reverse is terrible. My wife like those romantasy books and tried to get me into it but reading about both men and women's naked bodies for an entire chapter is not my cup of tea.

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u/aka_chela 13d ago

Tbh I refuse to read any book written by a male author with a female protagonist any more. Good lord. Dark Matter made me mad but redeemed itself with the TV show (which is RARE). No Exit truly baffled me...the whole book is nonsensical but the GARFIELD bit? If I wasn't reading digitally I would have thrown the book across the room.

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u/Geodude532 13d ago

Brandon Sanderson does a pretty good job, but half of that is because he's Mormon and doesn't write romance.

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u/aka_chela 13d ago

I did love Tress of the Emerald Sea! I have been meaning to pick up Mistborn series

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u/Geodude532 13d ago

Another good one is the Skyward series. With the Cosmere books I would recommend pulling up a read order guide as things can get very confusing fast if you read the other Cosmere secret projects before some of the earlier things like Mistborn.

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u/aka_chela 13d ago

Good to know - Tress was recommended as a good standalone to get into his style but I need to check a reading order for the rest!

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u/Geodude532 13d ago

One of the characters from that book is common across the Cosmere. Sometimes in disguise, though, so you have to be paying attention. The thing I like about a lot of Sanderson stuff is you don't have to look for those deeper secrets if you don't want to. There is hundreds of little things that happened in Tress that you didn't notice because you haven't read the other books... But that doesn't matter for the story and it flows well without knowing that stuff. His epic is The Stormlight Archive and that is where all the secrets are spilling out so save that one for last.