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Oct 14, 2009 10:16

Recommend me your favorite book (or books if you can't pick just one). They'll be going on my xmas wishlist. I need new stuffs to read.

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topsy47 October 14 2009, 23:02:24 UTC

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

And for a truly traumatically epic experience:

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

wanderingstars9 October 15 2009, 01:05:20 UTC

I've been really into Haruki Murakami lately. My favorites by him are "Kafka on the Shore", "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", and "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World".

Also good:
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Jeanette Winterson - Written on the Body

:)

superlib October 15 2009, 12:06:47 UTC

These are all books I wouldn't have thought to pick up on my own. Yay for new stuff! Perhaps you should let me borrow one, i've already read my way through all the favorites on my bookshelf and am craving something new.

Here are a few, I'm sure you've already seen some of them ext_102078 October 15 2009, 01:54:15 UTC

The Secret History by Donna Tartt is an amazing first book from this author.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow is a quick & fun read.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett runs quite a bit longer but it's engaging.

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, this is the first of the Deptford trilogy and I happened upon it by accident but it was wonderful (the second book is a bit slow though).

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, is the start of the Thursday Next series. This series is my absolute favorite so I saved it for last.

Re: Here are a few, I'm sure you've already seen some of them superlib October 15 2009, 12:02:12 UTC

I <3 cory Doctorow's books. His collection of short stories rocks my world. Wuffie++

The rest will be added to the wishlist! Thanks!

Re: Here are a few, I'm sure you've already seen some of them topsy47 October 15 2009, 13:55:24 UTC

Ha! The Deptford trilogy! That was the one thing I had to read in high school that I really enjoyed. It's well worth slogging through the second to get to the third, World of Wonders.

peribothron October 15 2009, 05:02:51 UTC

I second rob with Eyre Affair (and the whole Thursday Next Series by Jasper Fforde).

Star Maker by Olaf Stapeldon.
did you know that there is a new Hitchhiker book out, by Eoin Colfer?

superlib October 15 2009, 12:05:09 UTC

Have you read the new Hitchhiker book? Is it as good as the originals?

peribothron October 15 2009, 13:29:42 UTC

it dropped this w/e so i'll let you know after my copy comes...

busy_little_b October 15 2009, 14:21:33 UTC

the road, the poisonwood bible (not a bible)

also the lovely bones was good but sad!