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Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: pinkpiche on 27 Feb 2008, 13:06 ---I'd like to recommend
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
An absolutely excellent book about a boy that's stranded on a raft with a tiger, zebra and an orangutang, that lands on a small island filled with voracious killer trees that swallow people and make fruit out of their teeth.. Well.. You have to read it to understand.
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Yes. Second. A thousand times. I love this book.
A boy travels across the pacific in a life boat with a tiger; what's not to love?
pinkpiche:
Also:
Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend In A Coma
He writes so beautifully pretentiously futuristicly and manifesticly that you wish you came up with the idea
And ANYTHING by Joyce Carol Oates.
Beast:
Tim Dorsey.
Fletch:
Books:
Monster Blood Tattoo: Bio-punk (It's not really steam and/or punk, but I'm trying to fit it somewhere) story about a world filled with monsters & genocidal humans, following a boy and his job as a lamp-lighter. I'm a sucker for the background...
Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (Volume One: Shadow and Claw, Volume Two: Sword and Citadel): Previously four books, the Book of the New Sun focuses on the life of an exiled Seeker of Truth & Penitence. (aka, torturer) Possibly not something to read if you don't want to think ... I lent it to someone in my family; they promptly forgot about it & then threw it out. :cry:
Followed by The Urth of the New Sun, I think the first book is the better read.
Latro in the Mist, Gene Wolfe: Amnesiac soldier in ancient Greece, I don't really want to give away parts of the story ... the unreliable narrator Wolfe will later use in New Sun sharpens his sword here.
Movies:
Cemetery Man (aka Delamorte Delamore): Zombie movie about a man, his lover & his efforts 'killing' the 'recently deceased'. 8-)
Gridgm:
--- Quote from: Fletch on 05 Mar 2008, 03:06 ---
Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (Volume One: Shadow and Claw, Volume Two: Sword and Citadel): Previously four books, the Book of the New Sun focuses on the life of an exiled Seeker of Truth & Penitence. (aka, torturer) Possibly not something to read if you don't want to think ... I lent it to someone in my family; they promptly forgot about it & then threw it out. :cry:
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i'm currently in the middle of citadel of the autarch when in my local book shop i saw a book named severan the tortuer, picking it up thinking it might be a sequel to this excelent book i discovered it was in fact all 4 books in one but not called book of the new sun (i vote to kill the publisher who most probably had the idea) anyway it's a more simple thing to pick up than two books so i just put this here for reference
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