I've stolen this post from opal, cause it's a good idea

[angie_spuc]

Here's the gist.
You suggest books. Nice ones without will smith on the cover. That is the only rule.
Then I read them, and review. Unless I've read them before, then I may choose to not read them.

I could probably get credit for this - but nah.

So go!
Suggest.

What I'd like too do this summer is design and read 'The Ultimate Reading List'. I'd like some

Comments

[philburt]

No Will Smith? WTF? I'm all about the Fresh Prince novels. They keep the 90s alive for me.

[chemical_lover]

If you haven't read anything by Isabel Allende then you should, she's Chilean and her stuff is fiction with a mystical aspect. I highly recommend House of the Spirits

[jamincan]

I'm the last person to be recommending good literature, so I'll recommend not necessarily good literature, but interesting literature at the very least.

Dangerous River - R. M. Patterson

It's about this guy who, back in the 20s or so (I can't remember exactly when), travelled up the then unknown and unexplored (and thus dangerous) South Nahanni River and spent the winter there trapping. It's quite a fascinating story and only strengthened my resolve to travel down that river one day.

[lambda_calculus]

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Bertrand Russell - Pretty much anything?
Richard Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
or Richard Geynman - The Character of Physical Law
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash (OMG OMG OMG but it's Cyberpunk)
Carl Sagan - Anything
James McEllroy - Bright Lights, Big City (one of my favourite books)

Feynman and Russel and Sagan are nonfiction, but I find them pretty lucid anyway.

[andukar]

How about:

- Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (mmm... erotic fantasy?)
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (It's better than Snow Crash =p)
- All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland (Cuz... they are, aren't they?)

[theenforcer]

I'll throw my weight behind all of these except Cryptonomicon (which I'm only partway through).

Can't think of anything else good I've read in the last little while. Been too busy for books. Will see what I can dig up.