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TheFuriousWombat:
If you read The Stand, make sure it's not that pansy ass abridged version. The real thing, hard covered sized, around 1,100 pages, is how King originally intended it to be. The edited version cut out something like 100,000 words and, as a result, a whole heck of a lot of material. Even if you've read the abridged version already it's worth plowing through the real thing.
Zoe_Gurl:
Hhmmm, for some light fantasy reading i would sujest either Phillup Pullmans "His Dark Materials" trilogy or Garth Nix's "Abhorsen" trilogy. Both are easy reading, but the stories are beautifully written. His dark materials perticually has some interesting and thought provoking ideas about the church and religeion, life after death etc.
For something a little more epic like, try Ian Irvines "The well of echoes". I think there are four books in the series. They were an awesome read, although a bit of a slog at times. And Irvine has left the ending open for sequeals, which concidering the end of the last book, i probably wont be reading. heh.
Aimless:
--- Quote from: magdalena on 30 Dec 2006, 13:14 ---the prydain chronicles by lloyd alexander.
a lot of people are all 'it rips off the lord of the rings' and dismiss it out of hand. but you really should give it a chance. i read them in middle school, and just fell in love with the characters. especiallly taran, who starts out as an orphan who takes care of an oracular pig, then events are set in motion that make him a very important person in his land. he grows so much from the first book, and it really is beautifully done.
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I absolutely ADORED those books. They were so damn'... charming. In a way almost no fantasy is these days. It's light reading, but still very rewarding :) other light but rewarding fantasy novels I'd recommend are Archer's Goon and The Lives of Christopher Chant, by Diana Wynne Jones (also seconding the Pullman recommendation, that trilogy was sweet, and I hope the movie adaptation of the first book will be good).
I second the Erikson recommendation--his Malazan books are some of the most awesome fantasy novels ever written, and I'm using that word very deliberately. The world is HUGE. I didn't really know what the term "epic" in a fantasy context meant until I read Erikson, and I grew up with Wheel of Time :o
Thanks to some Erikson fans, I discovered The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, and it's quite possibly the most entertaining and cool fantasy I've ever read. It's kinda like a con-film in a fantasy novel :) they're going to make a movie based on it, and it'll ROCK I tell you.
I'd like to recommend "The Gospel According to Biff, Buddy of Christ" for being the best novel ever written, but I haven't read it yet...
EDIT: Looks like someone's already recommended it!
Oh, I dunno if anyone's suggested any standups yet, but I'd like to recommend Eddie Murphy's "Raw" and Robin Williams, "Live on Broadway". Best seen with dudes or in mixed dude-like company =) Would recommend Chris Rock for his "Niggaz vs. Black People" stuff, and for his idea about bullet-control, but he can be a bit too screechy so whateva :o
RJHertz:
Has anyone ever read any of Joe Meno's work?
I really liked Hairstyles of the Damned, and I loved his most recent The Boy Detective Fails. It's a sweet, sad, funny story about Billy Argo, a former boy detective (now 30), recently released from a prolonged stay at a mental hospital that followed his sister's death. It dosen't take long before he is back to his sleuthing ways, helping the kids across the street, and crossing paths with old (and aging) associates. Meno creates a real world that is somewhat worn and faded, and populated with characters who are equally faded, yet trying to hold on to their past glory and vitality. Plus, there are coded messages for the reader to solve!
MadOvid:
Recent books that I've enjoyed lately are Alice Munro's Runaway and Margaret Atwoods Oryx and Crake. I highly recommend both of them. They have metaphor and everything.
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