Books Middle-Aged People Love and Young People Should Read! 中年人喜欢看，年轻人应该看的书！

1. 801 多 More Children, More Blessings: From the Start, the State Is Urging Me to Have Kids 多子多福，开局被国家催生 Lounging by the Sunny Window晴窗闲卧Urban1.0M WordsOngoing The male lead is betrayed and dumped by his girlfriend, who cares only about money and status. Just as he falls into despair, he unexpectedly awakens a System. As long as he dates a girlfriend, he can earn vast wealth, god-tier skills, and luxury homes. Armed with the combat ability and money granted by the System, he relentlessly face-slaps his ex-girlfriend and her snobbish family, makes a name for himself in the worlds of combat sports and business, and ultimately reaches the pinnacle of life 616Reads6.8Score100Shelves
2. 802 人 Finding True Love Inside and Outside Marriage in Midlife 人到中年婚姻内外寻找真爱 Qian Xiaqi钱夏七Modern Romance455k WordsCompleted Yang Duo is a flower in full bloom. Though she’s forty, she’s still young and beautiful. A woman in pursuit of true love, she yearns for romance and has spent her life exploring and experiencing it. A passionate love affair that nearly cost her life in her youth, a joyless marriage in middle age, and an unexpected encounter outside her marriage: whenever she falls for someone, she loves with wild abandon and suffers heartbreak that tears her apart. Her three close friends have very different l 652Reads8.7Score101Shelves

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   A very good book with realistic themes!

3. 803 佛 A Buddha's Heart and a Daoist Body, Bound by Nine Women 佛心道体，九女缠身 Lying-Down Dog躺狗Eastern Fantasy268k WordsOngoing If Heaven had feelings, even Heaven would grow old; the Dao is boundless, yet its way lies in the heart. The god who ruled Heaven has fallen into demonic ways, and demons can defy Heaven. This is only a myth. Those who read it need not reveal Heaven’s secrets. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Regardless of age, everyone loves to watch it.

4. 804 神 Divine Oil 神油 Lying-Down Dog躺狗Urban5.7M WordsOngoing The waters of the Gui River cannot wash away old blood debts. A jar of miraculous oil can keep the secrets of a powerful family locked away. The Republic of China is in chaos, the country teetering on the brink of collapse. At the command of his ancestors, the sole surviving heir of the Shi family enters the fray, disguising himself as an anonymous laborer at the Wen family’s oil mill. He appears plain and timid, but in his heart he is plotting a sweeping revenge. The miraculous oil the Wen fami 67.6kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
5. 805 千 The Greatest Woman in History: Empress Lü Zhi 千古第一女人吕后吕雉 Three Mao One三毛一Modern Romance549k WordsCompleted The greatest queen under heaven, who endured the unbearable only to endure it again: a scheming, adulterous, yet great woman of flesh and blood Branded the “Greatest Poisonous Woman” for two thousand years, Lü Zhi was an “iron-blooded phoenix” who fought her way through a patriarchal age. China’s first woman to rule from behind the curtain, she blazed a trail for women to wield power over an empire. She is counted alongside Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi as one of China’s three great female —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   If you haven't seen the real replica yet, you really should, this book is worth reading.

6. 806 广 A Guangzhou Campus Love Story 广州校园爱情故事 Three Mao One三毛一Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Volume One, “Conceiving a Child to Die! My Influencer Girlfriend”: Mao San, a graduate student in civil engineering, meets streamer Xue Yue during a livestream. Their online flirtation blossoms into an offline romance, but he has no idea that Xue Yue is shackled by both a debt of gratitude that requires her to bear a child and thalassemia. She quietly returns to her hometown to give birth. Mao San searches for her across a thousand miles, but in the end he cannot keep her by his side. Xue Yue di 14Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 807 当 When Chongqing's Gaming King Meets His Socially Anxious Sister-in-Law 当重庆野王遇上社恐小姑子 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭13k WordsCompleted When Chongqing's top jungler meets his socially anxious younger sister-in-law 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Novel recommendations for middle-aged readers~

8. 808 我 My Exes Have All Drifted Away 我的前任们都随风飘去 Three Mao One三毛一7k WordsCompleted My exes have all drifted away on the wind 1Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 809 爸 My Parents Raised Me on the Bare Minimum, So I'll Support Them on the Bare Minimum Too 爸妈按最低标准养育我，我也按最低标准赡养他们 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭11k WordsCompleted My parents raised me to the bare minimum standard, so I’ll support them to the bare minimum standard too 2Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 810 为 A Career in Public Service 为民官路 At Ease and Unrestrained安心无忌Urban1.8M WordsOngoing [A gritty, realistic tale of ambition and struggle in the government ranks] In 1990, top student Zhen Weimin offends the wrong people and gets kicked down to a poor rural township. Everyone thinks his life is over. But he is determined to make flowers bloom among the thorns. He breaks through obstacles with his knowledge and grounds himself in his conscience, with every step in sync with the pulse of the times. Starting in the township, he moves forward one step at a time. This is a true chronic 26.9kReads9.2Score2.8kShelves

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    I recommend this realistic and thrilling historical novel set in the officialdom of that era, perfect for middle-aged and elderly readers! Young people should also enjoy it!

11. 811 校 The Principal Was My Mom. She Gave My Early Admission Spot to a Poor Student to Avoid Favoritism, and Now She's Losing Her Mind with Regret 校长妈妈为避嫌把我的保送名额给了贫困生后，她悔疯了 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭11k WordsCompleted The Principal’s Mom Gave My Guaranteed Admission Spot to a Poor Student to Avoid Favoritism, and Now She Regrets It 9Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 812 弟 My Brother Is the Perfect Son, and I'm the Zero-Score Daughter 弟弟是满分儿子，我是零分女儿 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭8k WordsCompleted My Younger Brother Is the Perfect Son, While I'm the Zero-Score Daughter 3Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 813 我 I Have an Immortal Mountain in the Countryside 我在乡下有座仙山 Brewing a Pot of Big Red Robe Tea泡杯大红袍Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Urban cultivation + rural underdog comeback + thrilling wish fulfillment] Zhang Wei, a poor young man from the depths of the mountains, was patient and devoted to his parents from childhood. But on his third-year college birthday, a rich classmate set him up and beat him to death. He thought his life had ended, but a gray stone slab that gathered souls, hidden in a cave in the backyard vegetable garden of his family home, pulled him back from the morgue. It also unexpectedly unlocked a vast tro 10.2kReads8.7Score1kShelves

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    A rural comeback story + modern cultivation fantasy masterpiece! Zhang Wei survives a near-death experience and unlocks the supreme inheritance hidden in his family's immortal mountain. He starts a business in his mountain village, using immortal techniques to cure diseases and increase income, while fighting against the forces that oppress the villagers. Mundane affairs and alchemical cultivation intertwine, offering both heartwarming daily life and exhilarating battles. [Bookshelf added][Bookshelf added][Laugh][Requesting more updates][Requesting more updates]

14. 814 全 The Whole Family Sells Braised Snacks, and We Don’t Take No for an Answer 全家卖卤味，专治不服 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted The Whole Family Sells Braised Delicacies, and We Don't Take Any Nonsense 5Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 815 诀 The Dao-Cutting Art 诀天道 Yue Xin Hengtian月信恒天Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing (No mindless protagonist, no clichéd plot, a cunning lead, fully realized characters, no System, twin swords) The twin swords ring out, cleaving the heavens. Let souls be severed and bones torn out as you will. The world shall know no more bloody storms. I am both demon and god! With everything shattered, can it be made whole again? Faced with the shackles of fate, he will cut them apart with his twin swords! The gods and demons wage war for a hundred years. The Heavenly Dao is merciless, treati 3.2kReads—Score261Shelves

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    After witnessing the wickedness of the world, the protagonist's heart begins to twist and become unbalanced. Later in the story, the male protagonist becomes more cunning than a sieve, wielding two swords and refusing to worship gods or kneel before demons, fighting his way out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the war between gods and demons.

16. 816 养 My Adoptive Mother Sold Me to Become an Actor, So I Sent Her to the Afterlife 养母卖我去做戏子，我送她上黄泉 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted My adoptive mother sold me off to become an opera performer, so I sent her to her grave. —Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 817 全 My Whole Family Is My Trump Card 全家都是我的王炸 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭8k WordsCompleted My Whole Family Is My Trump Card —Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 818 与 Crossing Blades with Wolves 与狼过招 Itchy Fur痒痒毛7k WordsCompleted Sparring with Wolves 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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    No melodramatic plot twists, just words to nourish the soul!

19. 819 萨 Sardo 萨尔多 A Chirping Bird一只啼鸟Eastern Fantasy236k WordsCompleted This book is not suitable for children! As the Sacred Snow Mountain teeters on the brink of collapse, a young boy from the Saldo tribe unexpectedly awakens the “Eye of the Ancestors,” guarded by his people for a thousand years, and inherits the cultivation legacy left behind by the Ice River Immortal. He leads the remnants of the Saldo tribe on a deadly migration, fighting hordes of demon beasts on the Crescent Grassland, standing up to the brutal Wolf-Herding Demon Clan, forging alliances with 169Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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    The Awakening Path of Women on the Grasslands! High Quality

20. 820 弟 My Brother Wanted 500,000 for His Wedding Bride Price, So I Married Myself Off Three Thousand Miles Away 弟弟结婚要五十万彩礼，我把自己嫁到了三千里外 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭8k WordsCompleted My Younger Brother Needed 500,000 Yuan for His Bride Price, So I Married Myself Off 1,500 Kilometers Away 9Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 821 一 A Loser’s Godforsaken Life 一个屌丝的混账人生 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Urban728k WordsCompleted This book follows a loser who starts out as a penniless wage laborer and, through the twists of fate, makes a comeback to become a wealthy man. But then, with a great hand in his grasp and a winning card to play, he falls into a trap meticulously laid by those in power. In the end, he loses everything, leaving only chaos in his wake 275Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You should definitely read these!

22. 822 您 Hello, Your Flirting May Constitute False Advertising 您好，您的暧昧涉嫌虚假宣传 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭13k WordsCompleted Hello, your flirting may constitute false advertising 1Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 823 命 Fate: A Woman’s Redemption 命运，赎罪的女人 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Modern Romance19k WordsCompleted Fate: A Woman's Atonement 76Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 824 嫡 The Legitimate Daughter Conquers the Capital with Her Ridiculous Antics 嫡女她靠沙雕称霸京城 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭Ancient Romance9k WordsCompleted The Legitimate Daughter Rules the Capital with Her Goofy Antics 1Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 825 过 Adopted Son, Part Two 过继二 Dreams of Spring and Autumn梦话春秋Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [Wealth + power plays] [Reality + perseverance] [Life + passion] [Love + living] A man must be as tough as iron, but also as resilient as steel. Only then can he face the harshness of reality and the twists of fate, and rise to meet new challenges. I'm Zhao Erhai, and here's my story... 4kReads9.3Score490Shelves

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    These two books are absolutely true novels.

26. 826 锁 The Locksmith Is Naturally Scatterbrained. After She Joined a Mystery-Room Variety Show, the Whole Internet Fell to Its Knees 锁匠她天生迷糊，上密室综艺后全网跪了 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted The Locksmith Is Naturally Scatterbrained, but After Appearing on a Mystery-Room Variety Show, the Whole Internet Fell to Its Knees —Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 827 被 After I Was Forced to Take a Pay Cut, the Whole Company Couldn’t Even Make Payroll 被逼降薪后，全公司连工资都发不出 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭8k WordsCompleted After I Was Forced to Take a Pay Cut, the Whole Company Couldn’t Even Pay Its Employees 1Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 828 闺 My Best Friend Stole My Perfume Formula, Then Her Award Ceremony Debacle Went Viral 闺蜜偷我香水配方，颁奖礼她当场翻车 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted My Best Friend Stole My Perfume Formula, Then Crashed and Burned at the Awards Ceremony 1Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 829 被 Her Best Friend Spread Rumors About Her Sex Life, and She Became a Social Pariah 被闺蜜造谣私生活混乱后，她社死了 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭7k WordsCompleted After her best friend spread rumors that she had a chaotic private life, she became a social outcast. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 830 重 Reborn at Nine, I Saved My Sister From a Stalker 重生九岁，我护住了被尾随的姐姐 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭8k WordsCompleted Reborn at nine, I protected my older sister from a stalker. —Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 831 婆 My Mother-in-Law Called Me a Useless Woman Who Can’t Have Kids? I Made Her Son Leave With Nothing 婆婆骂我是不生蛋的闲人？我反手让她儿子净身出户 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭6k WordsCompleted My mother-in-law called me a useless woman who couldn’t have children? I hit back by making her son leave with nothing. —Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 832 婆 My Mother-in-Law Paid Fifty Million to Make Me Leave? I Brought My Quadruplets to Crash My Jerk Ex's Proposal Party 婆婆砸五千万让我滚？我携四胞胎炸翻渣男求婚宴 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭7k WordsCompleted My mother-in-law offers me fifty million to leave? I bring my quadruplets and blow up the scumbag's proposal party 1Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 833 洞 On Our Wedding Night, My Husband Begged Me to Join Our Names with His White Moonlight. I Turned and Married the Prince Regent 洞房花烛夜夫君携白月光跪求合籍，我转身嫁给了摄政王 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭6k WordsCompleted On our wedding night, my husband brought his one true love to beg me to register as his co-wife. I turned around and married the regent instead. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 834 魂 My Soul Travels Back to 1972, Where I Raise Beauties and Ride the Tide of the Times 魂穿七二，培养美人横扫时代浪潮 Stars Can Set the Prairie Ablaze星星可以燎原Historical1.7M WordsCompleted [Period] [Sign-In] [Divine Doctor] [Space] [Farming] [Sweet Romance] A real estate tycoon transmigrates into 1972 and binds to the Red Dust Karma System from the start! Ling Feng uses supplies and skills to establish absolute authority, winning hearts through “feeding” and “protection.” Ling Feng has a portable space, peerless medical skills, and deadly combat abilities. He knows that in these unusual times, supplies give you face, personal connections are the substance, and your fists are your 13.5kReads7.4Score1.5kShelves

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    An extraordinary historical novel, incredibly exciting, ruthless, and featuring characters with high intelligence.

35. 835 弹 The Comments Say the Campus Heartthrob Will Dump Me When His Childhood Sweetheart Returns 弹幕说，校草的青梅回国后他会甩了我 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭7k WordsCompleted The on-screen comments say that when the campus heartthrob’s childhood sweetheart returns from abroad, he’ll dump me. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 836 重 Reborn in 1976, My Father-in-Law Hopes I Die Every Day 重生1976，岳父天天盼我死 Weird-Tasting Bullfrog怪味牛蛙Urban2.0M WordsOngoing [Rebirth + period setting + logging + no System] In his previous life, Chen Beishan was the chairman of a timber conglomerate worth tens of billions. As he died at his rosewood desk, the last document he received wasn’t an obituary. It was a lawyer’s letter from his son, contesting the inheritance. He opens his eyes in 1976, in the Greater Khingan Range, at minus forty-two degrees. He’s now the “softie Beishan” everyone at the logging camp calls a coward: a good-for-nothing who abandoned his p 880Reads6.5Score108Shelves

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    This is a high-quality period rebirth novel with a tight plot, novel setting, no system, and rich, delicate writing style. It has the feel of a serious period drama, depicting the rise of a lumberjack in a Northeast forest farm. It's very immersive! It's highly realistic, so those who like fast-paced, action-packed stories should proceed with caution.

37. 837 返 The Man Who Grew Young Again 返老还童的男人 Yin Qianchen银千臣Urban1.1M WordsOngoing A baby adopted by a widow was born looking seventy years old. Then he began to age backward, slowly growing younger. At eighteen, he looked like he was in his fifties. In the end, he became a baby and died in the arms of the person he loved most. 1.7kReads7.9Score107Shelves

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    A surreal, multi-female protagonist slice-of-life novel.

38. 838 清 Under the Moon at Tsinghua, Your Betrayal Tempered My Blade 清华月下，你的背叛淬炼了我的刀 Little Fish in a Bowl of Juice一汁小小渔Marriage & Romance11k WordsCompleted Beneath the moon at Tsinghua, your betrayal tempered my blade 130Reads—Score—Shelves

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    🤔Meets the criteria, highly recommended! [Sparrow's Masterpiece]

39. 839 寒 A Poor Scholar's Tribulation of Great Tang's Beauties 寒门状元大唐红颜劫 Yin Qianchen银千臣Historical356k WordsCompleted Li Guo’er, the Tang Dynasty’s most beautiful woman, is Princess Anning and the youngest, most beloved daughter of Emperor Zhongzong, Li Xian. The most seductive princess in the Tang Dynasty, she is strikingly similar to the protagonist’s wife. After the male lead transmigrates to the Tang Dynasty, he discovers that Li Guo’er looks exactly like his wife. Determined to save the only person in this world who reminds him of family, he works tirelessly and vows to save Li Guo’er, who was killed at ju 384Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 840 家 At the Family Banquet, My Brother-in-Law Used My Teapot as a Urinal 家宴上，小舅子用我的茶壶接尿 Little Fish in a Bowl of Juice一汁小小渔Marriage & Romance22k WordsCompleted At the family dinner, my brother-in-law used my teapot as a chamber pot 60Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 841 1 Ten Scumbags and a Woman Who Hates Cilantro 10个渣男不吃香菜的女人 The Later Generation Clan后人一族Modern Romance187k WordsCompleted The story of a young woman's growth and her ten men. At its heart is the story of how one woman navigates her way among men, exploring how women in modern society view marriage and love! 205Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 842 为 The Night-Vision Goggles I Wore to Catch a Rat Caught a Cheating Couple 为了捉老鼠装的夜视仪，捉到了一对野鸳鸯 Little Fish in a Bowl of Juice一汁小小渔17k WordsCompleted I Set Up Night Vision to Catch Rats, but Caught a Cheating Couple Instead —Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 843 白 The Meaning of the White Tiger 白虎通义 Ban Gu班固Historical53k WordsCompleted The Baihutong, also known as the White Tiger Discussions or the White Tiger Treatise on Virtue, is a collection of proceedings from an officially convened meeting on Confucian studies during the Eastern Han dynasty, as well as an imperially sanctioned work interpreting the Confucian classics. It holds an exceptionally important place in the history of Confucian thought and Han political thought. In 79 CE, the fourth year of Emperor Zhang of Han’s Jianchu era, the emperor personally convened a la 26Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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    True history, though less legendary, is far more vivid and real. [Heavy punch][Heavy punch][Heavy punch]

44. 844 饿 Starving in Shenzhen, I Transmigrate to the Tang Dynasty: Raising a Princess 饿死深圳穿大唐【公主养成记】 The Later Generation Clan后人一族Historical237k WordsCompleted The middle-aged male lead's wife cheats on him and runs off with Lao Wang. Kicked out by his landlord, he ends up begging on the streets. He jumps into Shenzhen Bay and is transported by aliens in a UFO to the Tang dynasty, where he meets the most beautiful princess of them all, Li Guo'er. He vows to raise her to be his wife! 48Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 845 她 She Said She Was Going on a Business Trip, but Appeared in My Livestream 她说去出差，却出现在我直播间 Little Fish in a Bowl of Juice一汁小小渔Marriage & Romance26k WordsCompleted She Said She Was Going on a Business Trip, but She Showed Up in My Livestream 132Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 846 情 The Lover’s Desperate Exchange 情人绝望的交换 The Later Generation Clan后人一族Urban314k WordsCompleted In his previous life, Lin Xi watched his wife leave for a faraway place with their daughter, then saw his mistress jump off a bridge with her child in her arms. In utter despair, he jumped too. When he awoke, he had returned to the time just before starting university. Could he save both daughters this time? 551Reads8.1Score—Shelves
47. 847 同 After the Class Reunion, I Saw My Girlfriend's Car 同学会散场，我看见了女友的车 Little Fish in a Bowl of Juice一汁小小渔28k WordsCompleted After the Class Reunion, I Saw My Girlfriend’s Car 421Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 848 出 I Came Home Early from a Business Trip and Walked In on My Girlfriend’s “Family Gathering” 出差提前回家，撞见女友的“家庭聚会” Little Fish in a Bowl of Juice一汁小小渔22k WordsCompleted I came home early from a business trip and walked in on my girlfriend's “family gathering” 1.4kReads—Score—Shelves
49. 849 发 I Found Out My Wife Has a Secret Account Called "The Ultimate Tease" 发现妻子有个小号，叫“纯欲天花板” Little Fish in a Bowl of Juice一汁小小渔16k WordsCompleted I Found Out My Wife Has a Secret Account Called “The Ultimate Sweet-and-Sexy Beauty” 219Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 850 这 This Zombie Is Very Upright 这个僵尸很正直 The Fat Cat Who Dashes Everywhere到处乱窜的肥猫Urban137k WordsCompleted They shattered the Pillar of Heaven! They slew the divine messengers! They smashed the altar! They dragged those lofty gods down from the heavens and beat them into the dirt! Bathed in the gods' blood, they built a human realm atop their corpses! 28Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I found the new book a bit hard to get into at first, but I'm catching up now. The beginning is quite explosive, but the pacing is good and it doesn't affect the main plot. I think it's a microcosm of ordinary people in today's society, which is great.

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