Holy shit biscuits I remember those ones.
Also the keys to the kingdom a few years on from that, and this one I dont remember that involved magic rocks and shadow monsters.
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude and Pedro Paramo both some of the greatest ever written on latin and south america.
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I'm going to recommend 100% hard SF.
My favorite books I've read in the past year:
Author dump:
Greg Egan, Vernor Vinge, David Brin, Stephen Baxter, Isaac Asimov, and of course Arthur C. Clarke
What age range/maturity level are you looking for?
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Yes! The Left Hand of God. And also the Lord of The Rings Trilogy.
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Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan. Just reread it and she's got another series that follows on, but 20 years later. I'm busy reading that at the moment. All of her books are great, but the black magician trilogy is the one that stood out for me.
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I totally agree!
It is kinda hard to get into. I remember getting confused with all the jumping between the characters at the start.
But I absolutely loved it, the later books in the series do go downhill, but this as a standalone book is brilliant!
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I have read a lot of amazing mature books but once in a while the inner child within me loves to get this series from the shelves and read it to the morning.
In terms of comic books, I really enjoy reading Y: The Last Man and Girls. You can easily make a good novel out of them. Fables is good too but it's everywhere and no where after chapter 100.
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+1 for American Gods
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is also pretty good! That man has got some great ideas.
I'll put Anansi Boys on the to-read list.
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The Hitchiker is by far my most often read novel, must have been 13 to 14 times already.
I also love to read Pratchett, but I prefer the witch stories and Small Gods. While I do like SciFi, I don't think Pratchett's SF stories were worth it, but the books about discworld science with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen are both a pleasure to read as well as a solid collection of interesting science and scifi bits.
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I read the title as "Best Boobs blah blah" and had to stop for a second. Then I saw I was mistaken. Farewell.
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Every book of Matthew Reilly just for the awesome present day recon army thing.
Artemis Fowl just because I really really like it and also Deltora Quest even if they are kid books and currently reading the wheel of time which I hope will be good.
Do you have any books or genres you like or prefer?
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Stephen King. Any one, specially the Dark Tower series.
Also, Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth and its sequel, and the new ones about WWI and WWII.
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Just read the WWII one. At first I didn't like it that much- the opening scenes and writing style didn't draw me in- but once I got into it I loved it. The feels, too. When the Soviets capture Berlin...
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I thought the first one was better than the last two, but yeah, they're all pretty great.
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I don't know about the best, 'cause I'm not really a hierarquizing kind of guy, but let's see. Here's an handful of books that I've really enjoyed over the years:
George Orwell - 1984
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Primo Levi - If This is a Man
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
JD Salinger - Nine Stories/To Esme, With Love and Squalor
Eh, I could go on all day!
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Yeah, I'm a big Vonnegut fan, and Cat's Cradle is very probably my favorite! And on bokononism: you just got to love a religion that begins by saying that "all the true things I'm about to tell you are shameless lies"
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The Malazan Book of the Fallen from Steven Erikson. Best fantasy I have ever read.
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Seeing the other guy's post on Life of Pi book, I realized that there are many great books out there to read. Now however, a quick search of the best books to read comes up with the ones that the critics love. After reading most of their plots on wikipedia, they tended to sound dull. What are your favorites?
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