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Legendaryratboy:
the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer is extremley good and manages to mix Irish fables of fairies and other magical creatures with ultra futuristic technology and criminal masterminds, nad also, the main character is 12 years old and smarter than most adults of any species in the book... talk about creepy.
Other works by Eoin Colfer are also highly recomended, they offer a fresh outlook on many old themes and add his own personal twist of mixing old school Tolkien type fantasy with innoviative science fiction, defiently a good read if youre looking for something refreshing.
confusedcious:
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files is definitely worth a read. It does paranormal investigation without excessive relationship angsting and the character is not the best.... or the only.... or the last... anything, except that he is the only wizard in the chicago phone book - but I think that I can give him that. As the series goes in it just gets better and better.
Aimless:
"The Game", by Neil Strauss, one of the most accomplished pickup-artists in the world. It was a very fun--and surprisingly involving--read! Warmly recommended to men and women alike.
SilentJ:
Okay, I'm ashamed to admit it took me this long to get into anything by him, but...
I recently started reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and it is fucking brilliant. It's just a shame I don't have anything else by him to read once I finish this.
Ah, well. So it goes.
UncleMax:
I apologize in advance if any of these have already been mentioned... but...
DUNE -book
I honestly cannot belive that I haven't seen Dune mentioned here at alll... It is an amazing story of life on a planet covered entirely of desert, and a tribal culture that actually thrives there. Not to mention it's quoted often in QC.
The Gods Themselves -also book
Seriously. There are three main parts. Their titles are: 1) Against Stupidity... 2)...The Gods Themselves... 3)...Contend in Vain? Anything with that title will get my vote, but its also a friggin awesome book. Some refreshingly original alien life is involved, and some really cool physics, too.
Anything Written by Terry Pratchett -a whole lotta boks
Terry Pratchett is basically Douglass Adams, except even more cynical and sarcastic. And, instead of sci-fi, its a fantasy world that's actually just our world, with golems and magic and semi-medieval time period (I swear, those books eeringly remind me of the world we live in today, right down to a controlling entrepeneur who buys a company, runs it to the ground, and sells it off with a profit. Remind you of anything?)
Calvin and Hobbes -comics
One of the main influences to QC, as present in the style of dialog in Jeph's strips, and Jeph also confessed to it in one of his newspots. This kid has major problems. Calvin's smarter and more philisophical than Sigmund Freud when he's on his red wagon, but when asked "What is the significance of the Eerie Canal?" Calvin answered, "In the cosmic sense, probably nil." That makes my point.
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