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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Ruthdes wrote: |
This may be a little bit mainstream, but you haven't been specific in what you like or have read already, but I recommend the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. It's romance, epic and time-slip (so I guess paranormal), and so far has 7 volumes, with at least one more on the way. I've read them all as books, but also listened to them as audiobooks. I have to say that it can get a little bit cliched (If a character "feels rather than hears/sees" something one more time, I may put a sharp object though my iPod -just kidding, but it does get annoying), but in general, the story is very compelling. It's set between the end of WWII and 1980, and between before Culloden in the Scottish highlands and France, and the War of Independence in the Colonies of America. Good stuff, seems to be well researched, and keeps you going for ages.
You didn't mention historical fiction at all, but the "Masters of Rome" series, that goes from before the rise of Gaius Marius, to the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, will also keep you entertained for a very long time. |
I read "Outlander" and while I enjoyed it, I didn't like it enough to read more in the series. I think the "killing the wolf" scene in the first one kind of turned me off. And all of the "nick of time" stuff got kind of old.
If you've never read anything by Henry Rider Haggard, give him a shot. I've read 4 books by him and was amazed by each and every one! |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| American Psycho. Only book I brought with my to Korea. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd recommend Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books. It's a mixture of realism and dystopian fantasy. It's a rather peculiar, brilliant novel. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| McGenghis wrote: |
One of the darkest new fantasy writers is China Mieville. He has a handful of books that don�t make up a series per se but are based in the same world. Raw, unadulterated and endlessly creative.
I�m a bit of a literary glutton and given to easy praise but this man deserves it.
Frank Hubert�s �Dune� is the first in a long series but I doubt many folks will disagree that the first installment was the best. |
I read The City and The City and now I'm listening to the audiobook of Kraken. Both have been amazing. I listen to a lot of audiobooks while I commute and Kraken is in my top 5. Very well produced.
Has anyone said Pynchon?
OP- recommend some books that you have read recently to give us more of an idea of what you like. |
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legrande
Joined: 23 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Try Edogawa Rampo if you're interested at all in Japan.
Murakami Ryu ("Almost Transparent Blue", "Coinlocker Babies") is a blast in his earlier works.
"House of Sleeping Beauties" by Kawabata Yasunari may trip you out as well. |
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