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I forgot to recommend Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's a fantasy novel but the fantasy is pretty limited.
The book is set in an alternate 19th-century Britain, during the Napoleonic Wars. The story is based on the premise of magic returning to England after hundreds of years of desuetude, and the tumultuous relationship between two magicians of the time. It incorporates historical events and people into its fictional alternate reality. Historical figures encountered in the novel include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Byron and King George III. The novel, written in a pastiche of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens' literary styles, uses quasi-archaic spelling for several words (such as shew, chuse, connexion, sopha, scissars, headach, and surprize) and gives all street names hyphenated with only one capital letter (e.g. Regent-street, Hanover-square).
The book is interspersed with hundreds of footnotes which reference a number of fictional books including magical scholarship and biographies, and which provide a detailed backstory. Many pages of the book contain more footnote text than main body text. The book features several illustrations by Portia Rosenberg.
The coolest thing about it is that the magic is treated as something possible in real life. It's grounded in reality.
And I don't think I recommended it but The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien.
The unnamed narrator of The Third Policeman bases his life studying and analyzing a scientist/philosopher named de Selby, and, as is revealed in the opening paragraph of the novel, has committed a robbery and a violent murder of a man named Mathers with an accomplice, John Divney, who is his hired help at the farm and pub his family owned.
And you will never look at bikes the same way again.
I forgot to recommend Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's a fantasy novel but the fantasy is pretty limited.
The book is set in an alternate 19th-century Britain, during the Napoleonic Wars. The story is based on the premise of magic returning to England after hundreds of years of desuetude, and the tumultuous relationship between two magicians of the time. It incorporates historical events and people into its fictional alternate reality. Historical figures encountered in the novel include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Byron and King George III. The novel, written in a pastiche of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens' literary styles, uses quasi-archaic spelling for several words (such as shew, chuse, connexion, sopha, scissars, headach, and surprize) and gives all street names hyphenated with only one capital letter (e.g. Regent-street, Hanover-square).
The book is interspersed with hundreds of footnotes which reference a number of fictional books including magical scholarship and biographies, and which provide a detailed backstory. Many pages of the book contain more footnote text than main body text. The book features several illustrations by Portia Rosenberg.
The coolest thing about it is that the magic is treated as something possible in real life. It's grounded in reality.
And I don't think I recommended it but The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien.
The unnamed narrator of The Third Policeman bases his life studying and analyzing a scientist/philosopher named de Selby, and, as is revealed in the opening paragraph of the novel, has committed a robbery and a violent murder of a man named Mathers with an accomplice, John Divney, who is his hired help at the farm and pub his family owned.
And you will never look at bikes the same way again.
The Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean M Auel..
or the Eragon series by Michael Paolini
orrrr.. some Roald Dahl, he's coolest kid ever!
or the Eragon series by Michael Paolini
orrrr.. some Roald Dahl, he's coolest kid ever!
absolutely! it's ultimately a love story but not cheesy and it's an orignal take on time travel. Henry thrives due to paradox. It's the first book to make me cry since i read "Where the Red Fern Grows" in 4th grade.
what genre of books do you enjoy reading? Favorite authors? maybe i can make a few more suggestions.
what genre of books do you enjoy reading? Favorite authors? maybe i can make a few more suggestions.
Well I try not to tie myself down to any few genres, as I want to be a writer and I want to write different genres, so really I'm open to anything. Like, right now I'm reading a steampunk novel, then next I might read some satire, or something post-modern. Doesn't matter, anything.
But some of my favourite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Flann O'Brien, Susanna Clarke, Alan Moore, Franz Kafka, Salvador Plascencia oh and some others.
But some of my favourite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Flann O'Brien, Susanna Clarke, Alan Moore, Franz Kafka, Salvador Plascencia oh and some others.
lidoffad79
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I was going to recommend The Time Traveler's Wife as well, but you beat me to it, drb! I read it a few years ago, and I have yet to find another book that will keep my attention like that one did. I'm actually in the middle of reading it aloud to my husband while we're driving long distances.
Definitely worth it IMO, Obdurate! I'm also going to check out some of your suggestions.
Definitely worth it IMO, Obdurate! I'm also going to check out some of your suggestions.
Peter Parka
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Tonight has just brought back a few nostalgic memories but Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy by Douglass Adams is a must read!:nod:
Okay, well once I cut through a few of these books that have been waiting to be read I will pick it up. And I think it's being made into a movie as well.
And in case anybody is wondering what I have to read, though I don't know why you would be, you can consider these a kind of preemptive recommendation:
William Faulkner - Light in August
Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two Birds
Joanne Proulx - Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet
Richard Adams - The Plague Dogs
And right now I'm reading Whitechapel Gods and I have another book coming in the mail... can't remember what it is but it was like 6 bucks. And then I want to pick up Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.
..Yeah.
lidoffad79
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I need to schedule me some reading time. This thread has sparked my interest in reading again!
:homo: My favourite book
The most recent film adaptation wasn't bad either I thought.
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