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JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#27: Feb 4th 2012 at 10:39:29 AM

Being a hopeless fan-boy for a few very particular strands of literature, I must recommend these:

  • Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
  • Paul Bowles, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
  • Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats
  • Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories
  • Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
  • Arthur Machen, The House of Souls
  • Haruki Murakami, after the quake

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
whimsyful Since: Sep, 2010
#28: Feb 10th 2012 at 5:15:06 PM

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

edited 10th Feb '12 5:15:28 PM by whimsyful

Jimmmyman10 cannot into space from polan Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#30: Feb 14th 2012 at 6:01:31 AM

The Talisman, by Peter Straub and Stephen King. In my opinion the best book that the co-authors have ever written in their lives. Summing it up as Huckleberry Finn meets the Werewolf (and he is a nice guy) is good enough for government work.

The entire series so far of the Heralds of Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey, and the story anthologies by various other authors are a must.

From the stuff I have read recently, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality; Fallout: Equestria; and Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre, and not just because I knew his sister at high school and sort of fancied her.

frumfrum from Germany Since: Oct, 2011
#31: Feb 14th 2012 at 8:36:12 AM

I would like to pimp the Zamonia novels by Walter Moers. Pick one, they`re all awesome*

. You don`t have to worry about a timeline. :3

FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
Responsible adult
#32: Feb 14th 2012 at 11:19:20 AM

[up]: Oooh, The Talisman sounds fun. I presume you are using Huck Finn in a metaphorical sense? But if not, hey, even better!

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#33: Feb 14th 2012 at 12:50:37 PM

I'd also like to recommend The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. The first is comedic, and it's great fun to read. The latter is a bildungsroman, detailing the formative years of a working class Dublin boy.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#34: Feb 14th 2012 at 2:11:24 PM

The authors flat out admitted that Huck Finn was an "inspiration" for their hero, Jackie Sawyer. Along with the obvious, 8-)

I read it (The Talisman) first when I was near Jackie's age. Loved it ever since. That and the Don Henley song "The Boys of Summer" which I somehow associate it with. And it is a criminal offence that it hasn't been made into a mini series or film when crap like Maximum Overdrive got filmed.

edited 14th Feb '12 2:15:46 PM by TamH70

Lemurian from Touhou fanboy attic Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
Responsible adult
#36: Feb 15th 2012 at 3:40:48 PM

Although I will note that above book is a Doorstopper in every sense of the word. A good book, but a huge one.

But if doorstoppers do not deter you, I also recommend Brave Story. It's got a lot of emotional and cultural depth to it, despite it essentially being a video game in written form. But the video game elements Make Sense In Context.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
Funden u wot m8 from the maintenance tunnels Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: It's complicated
u wot m8
#37: Feb 15th 2012 at 5:39:47 PM

Pretty much anything by Brandon Sanderson. The Mistborn series is fantastic, as is Warbreaker and the Stormlight Archive.

Lemurian from Touhou fanboy attic Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#38: Feb 16th 2012 at 1:05:53 AM

^^ Yeah, that's partly why I recommended it. He's looking for books for an e-reader, after all. tongue

Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#39: Feb 19th 2012 at 6:31:57 AM

The Nibelungenlied is one of the better early medieval works, in my opinion. It's worth checking out.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#40: Feb 21st 2012 at 8:02:14 AM

Doesn't that work's associations with Wagner give it unfortunate implications, though?

Exelixi Lesbarian from Alchemist's workshop Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Lesbarian
#42: Feb 21st 2012 at 4:38:44 PM

The Dresden Files. If you never, ever read another series, read that.

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-
AugustulusJulius August Personage from None of your business Since: Feb, 2012
August Personage
#43: Feb 21st 2012 at 5:38:31 PM

Quick note though about Johnathan Strange&Mr. Norrell while good it takes a bit for the story to start getting real good Mr. Norrell's stuff at the beginning takes nigh on forever to heat up, but it matches his characterization which is nice. The Old Kingdom Trilogy is good, not too difficult to read which can be pleasant after reading something crazy complex.

Qeise Professional Smartass from sqrt(-inf)/0 Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
Professional Smartass
#44: Jul 23rd 2012 at 3:21:14 PM

  • "Iron Druid Chronicles" by Kevin Hearne
  • "Night of the Wolf" by Alice Borchardt. Other books of the same series include "The Silver Wolf" and "The Wolf King". The Silver Wolf should be read before The Wolf King, but otherwise the order doesn't really matter. Chronologically Night of the Wolf is the first, and I reccomend you read it first because the action starts straight away.
  • "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. Also the sequels.
  • Seems I have a thing for Immortal Badasses.

  • The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell

Stormlight Archive
Try it.

edited 23rd Jul '12 3:25:40 PM by Qeise

Laws are made to be broken. You're next, thermodynamics.
Lightflame Stick of the Fallen from where you can't find me Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Drowning in your pond, hoping you'll notice me
Stick of the Fallen
#45: Jul 23rd 2012 at 5:43:23 PM

Seconding (thirding?) Brandon Sanderson. He's an absolute god of writing. Start with the Mistborn trilogy, which is absolutely brilliant except for part of the ending of the third book, but that's forgivable when it's all so good.

Also, the Warriors series by Erin Hunter is awesome, although it takes until book three, Forest of Secrets, to really pick up the pace. The books are fairly short, and they're classified as a "9-12" series, but because of their deep themes, plentiful character development, gray and gray morality, the author's insistence on giving every villain reasons for their actions, Anyone Can Die usage, and Troperiffic nature, a large portion of the fandom is made up of adults.

"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"
pagad Sneering Imperialist from perfidious Albion Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Sneering Imperialist
#46: Jul 24th 2012 at 7:25:09 AM

Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton, which remains my personal favourite SF novel and is actually fairly obscure compared to the behemoths he's normally associated with. Thanks to me, it finally has its own trope page and everything!

edited 24th Jul '12 7:25:50 AM by pagad

With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.
sargecadet Since: Mar, 2012
#47: Jul 24th 2012 at 12:22:24 PM

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a personal favorite. I also recently started reading The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers and it's awesome. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr is what made me love postapocolyptic fiction.

edited 24th Jul '12 12:24:05 PM by sargecadet

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