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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Pelay on 08 Jul 2007, 07:24
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Hi All - i've been lurking the boards for a while but i'm inspired to post because I need some help. I'm in Germany for a few months and want recommendations for a couple books to try to get a hold of. Things that are good to get lost in because I have a lot of time to kill.
To maybe find like minded recommendations some of my fav's are
Anything by Sarah Vowell
His Dark Materials Trilogy
A separate Peace
Catcher in the Rye
Hitchhikers guide
A handful of sci-fi/ fantasy and anything with strong female leads...i'm a sucker for it...I know!
Hope you guys feel like throwin' out some good books. Thanks!
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If you liked Catcher (and I'm mystified by the people who didn't), go ahead and read Franny and Zooey.
'His Dark Materials' for me always sorta gest lumped into a group with my other favorite young adult fantasy series: Garth Nix's 'Abhorsen' books and Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' sequence.
An excellent SF book with a very strong female lead: 'Against a Dark Background' by Iain Banks.
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Weaveworld by Clive Barker.
The Dirk Gently book's by Douglas Adams.
Any sort of Robert Rankin, it's all good.
The Genevieve Books by Kim Newman (as Jack Yeovil)
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Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Edymion
The Rise of Edymion
by Dan Simmons
amazing SF series that blows me away every time i read it.
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A separate Peace
Fantastic book. Thank you for loving it.
I would recommend "Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther. It's a memoir (yay non-fiction!) written by a father about his son that got cancer. Such an amazing book, I can't even begin to describe it.
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For some rather dense but extremely well written and interesting historical fiction with just a tinge of the fantastic, check out The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson on Crytonomicron and Snow Crash fame. It's a trilogy and it's around 3,000 pages long but it's full of amazing real life and fictional characters and the story involves everything from politics to commerce, religion to the stock market, military strategy to code breaking, science to literature, and naval dealings to piracy all in the mid to late 1800s. It's really fascinating and makes for some terrific and absorbing reading. Plus it's set all over Europe (not to mention Africa, the Middle East, and South America as well as Asia) so it's good to read while on the continent. I read the first book in Cambridge where, unbeknownst to me, a good portion of the book is set.