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Seconding both.
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
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
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.
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
: Oooh, The Talisman sounds fun. I presume you are using Huck Finn in a metaphorical sense? But if not, hey, even better!
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
Has Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell been said yet? If not, I'm recommending it.
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!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^^ Yeah, that's partly why I recommended it. He's looking for books for an e-reader, after all.
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-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.
- "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
edited 23rd Jul '12 3:25:40 PM by Qeise
Laws are made to be broken. You're next, thermodynamics.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!"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.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
