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Ulukai on 29/10/2008 at 11:13

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-Board-Book/dp/0241003008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225278597&sr=1-1) The Very Hungry Caterpillar

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Now-Bernard-Mini-Treasure/dp/009972541X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225278526&sr=8-2) Not now, Bernard

I can take or leave anything else, with two exceptions. Here's what definitely not to read:

Megatokyo
Final Fantasy Fan Fiction

Matthew on 29/10/2008 at 11:20

Oops. I must be doing it wrong.

Haplo on 29/10/2008 at 11:24

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba".

N'Al on 29/10/2008 at 11:35

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alfred-Hitchcock-Life-Darkness-Light/dp/0470869720/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225280008&sr=8-1) A Life in Darkness and Light

Queue on 29/10/2008 at 12:44

Anything I can get my hands on, but I'm partial to the more classic writers: Camus, Kafka, Hemingway, Hesse, Saki, Jackson, Poe, Faulkner, Chekhov, Dickens, etc. I really enjoy reading short stories over novels, finding too many authors adding way too much detail to make up for a lack of story. It's like Tom Clancy's ability to use three pages to describe a fart.

My favorite of the more modern authors, whose novels I really enjoy, are: Pratchett, Palahniuk, Gaiman, Chabon, Preston & Child (team), DeLillo, Carr, and Vonnegut (though I guess one could call him classic, now).

pagan on 29/10/2008 at 13:04

Just finished The Gunslinger, book 1 of Stephen King's Magnum Opus The Dark Tower. Can't recommend more highly. Fave book of all time is Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan, first-person cyber punk. Awesome. Anyone read?

Koki on 29/10/2008 at 13:18

Quote Posted by Ulukai

Here's what definitely not to read:

Megatokyo

:thumb:

Try (http://www.godmodeonline.com/) God Mode too.

fett on 29/10/2008 at 13:21

Pratchett, Gaiman, Preston & Child, Jeffrey Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme series), F. Paul Wilson (Repairman Jack series).

Other than that, children's and young adult fantasy stuff because adult fantasy is a huge wank-fest these days (thanks a fucking lot Robert Jordan). In that genre, I'm reading Artemis Fowl (Eion Colfer), Gregor the Overlander (Susan Cooper), The Last Apprentice (Joseph Delaney), and the Larklight Series (Philip Reeve). There's so much quality stuff coming out for this age group it's difficult to keep up with it all.

Queue on 29/10/2008 at 13:38

fett--
The only Preston and Child book I didn't care for was The Wheel of Darkness.

Have you read the Faerie War Series by Herbie Brennan? Awesome stuff. I'd have to agree that the Young-Adult writers are turning out some of the most interesting and creative material lately (except for that God-awful Twilight series).

YuSeF on 29/10/2008 at 13:51

Does Pronz count...?