I’ve noticed this as well. Music, books and art in the last 10 years or so have just become kinda soulless because it’s all about making a lot of it and selling it for money.

There’s a lot of new books I read with lots of stream of consciousness or tell instead of show or going to a place and talking to a person to get information for like 5 chapters. I feel like some older books had a better variety of action, pacing and dialogue.

Imaginative, exciting, well researched. Sci-fi, fantasy, thriller. My favorite books are Altered Carbon, Red Dwarf, The Stars Are Legion, the Paradox series, The Fifth Wave, Hunger Games, anything by Michael Crichton or Octavia Butler.

I am the same way.

Thank you. What do you recommend? Maybe I’m looking at the wrong stuff.