I need new reading material...

[Little Linguist]

Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks!

(Don't worry - I am open to almost any genre, except romance BLEH!)

I appreciate it!

 

[Aerithria]

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Cell by Stephen King
The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft

That's all the specific books I can think of this moment. Most of my fiction books tend to come from either the fantasy or the horror sections of the bookstore, so my recommendations are slightly limited. The Terry Goodkind book I've recommended is the first of a (rather long) series, so if you don't want to start a series I'd stay away from that. As for authors, Neil Gaiman's works are generally enjoyable (including his Sandman series if you're into comic books), as are Stephen King's if you like nontraditional (for the most part) horror. Uh, David and Leigh Eddings, Dean Koontz, Anthony O'Neill and Gregory Maguire are also fairly decent authors.

If you're looking for non-fiction books as well, there's more I can recommend, though I get the impression that you're inquiring about fiction books.

 

[Eileen]

His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman

 

[swordpath]

The call of the wild - jack london

 

[Jae Rae]

Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Nonfiction, about her family's attempt to eat seasonal food they grew themselves or bought locally. Excellent study of how much of our food is grown, shipped, engineered, etc. With recipes.

 

[Sniffles]

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty by Carl Schmitt.

Trust me, you'll love this one.

 

[01011010]

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

I second this.

 

[songofcalamity]

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

You have probably read this.

 

[Falcarius]

'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe
'The Day of the Triffids' by John Wyndham
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[The Ü™]

Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks!

(Don't worry - I am open to almost any genre, except romance BLEH!)

I appreciate it!

My blog.

 

[pure_mercury]

Everyone who understands English should read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

 

[alicia91]

A couple that I've read lately which I enjoyed:

A New Earth - Eckart Tolle
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller

 

[01011010]

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Schizm]

No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

 

[ixquic_creation]

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman


I just read Neverwhere.

Fucking brilliant. And very satisfying.

 

[ixquic_creation]

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Middlesex - Jeffery Euginides
Accelerando - Charles Straus

 

[OK Radio]

Everyone who understands English should read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

A Confederacy of Dunces should be used to teach people how to speak English, even.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Everyone who understands English should read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

A Confederacy of Dunces should be used to teach people how to speak English, even.

After heroically managing to get halfway through it before giving up, I think A Confederacy Of Dunces is best used as a doorstop.

 

[Jack Flak]

Shadow Divers. The 'writing' is merely acceptable, but the story is excellent, and true. I don't care for novels.

 

[pure_mercury]

A Confederacy of Dunces should be used to teach people how to speak English, even.

That would be bad. People would be speaking fat-man Middle English, and it would makes things very difficult (although hilarious).