Books to recommend?
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machshefaHi guys,
I've got a long holiday weekend coming up with some (possible) reading time... and I have no idea what to read. I have bookshelves full of books, but we have a trip to the bookstore planned, so I'm open to suggestions! Fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, SF, anthologies--what do you recommend?
I would love an engrossing read, something that won't leave me depressed or despondent, something fabulous! I recently read the most recent Malcom Gladwell and also Gaiman's "American Gods."
*sits back and makes list
Thank you!
I've got a long holiday weekend coming up with some (possible) reading time... and I have no idea what to read. I have bookshelves full of books, but we have a trip to the bookstore planned, so I'm open to suggestions! Fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, SF, anthologies--what do you recommend?
I would love an engrossing read, something that won't leave me depressed or despondent, something fabulous! I recently read the most recent Malcom Gladwell and also Gaiman's "American Gods."
*sits back and makes list
Thank you!
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Date: 2010-09-08 03:44 pm (UTC)The Mallory novels by Carol O'Connell (detective stories) - again, in order.
Anything and everything by China Mieville except perhaps King Rat. For happy and joyously inventive, read Un Lun Dun - for YA, but not exclusively at all.
For readable and pacy fantasy, choose David Gemmell. I haven't read anything of his that hasn't sucked me in completely by the end of the first chapter.
Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons. Extraordinary combination of high fantasy and space opera, with Shakespeare and Proust thrown in.
In starting my cleaning and organising campaign I have discovered a whole pile of books I haven't read yet. Must read them all before spending money on more!