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Give an avid reader suggestions for some books

  • 27-06-2014 3:43pm
    #1
    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭


    I haven't read a book for about 10 days now, and going into serious withdrawal symptoms :) - can't find anything to appeal to me. The worst part is I have about 20 books lined up, but can't get in to any of them.

    Typically read Fantasy, Sci-fi, Urban Fantasy, futuristic stuff, I also like the 'literary' type fantasy - Kafka on the Shore, American Gods, Cloud Atlas etc. And when I get bored of the Sci-fi/Fantasy stuff I usually then read a Classic or two.

    Trying to read Wolf of Wall Street at the moment, but TBH, I just want to bit*ch slap him :o He is annoying me too much. What I might do is speed read the rest of it (I hate not finishing books).

    Not a fan of most horror, crime stuff, and read virtually no non-fiction (bar the very odd autobiography).

    Anyone any suggestions, I tend to read the same type stuff. So some other suggestions would be really appreciative.


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  • #2
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Have you read any of Anne Lyle's books? Alternative historical fantasy set in Elizabethan England. She has written a trilogy called 'Night's Masque', 'The Alchemist of Souls' is the first book.

    Might be worth a look given the types of books you read :)


  • #3
    Fate Amenable To Change
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭Fate Amenable To Change


    Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear

    Foundation Series
    Culture series by Ian M Banks
    Otherland is more immediate sci fi

    The Name of The Wind I found to be quite a good fantasy read.

    What other books do you read to give me some idea of what you like.


  • #4
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Orson Scott Card's Ender series
    Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

    If you like Murakami, give Hard Boiled Wonderland a go (I didn't rate Kafka on the Shore highly, personally)


  • #5
    LeonardNelson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭LeonardNelson


    Divergent will always be my favorite


  • #6
    wreade1872
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭wreade1872


    You could try something off my reading list http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057074266 . Anything with a 4/5 and some with 3/5 are worth a look. Mostly classics but some more modern.
    Flatland
    The Coming Race (bizarrely startrekky in places)
    Zanoni (which i'm convinced was made into the film Hancock)
    Lovecraft always worth a look, i know you said not into horror but his cosmic horror is more like sci-fi.
    Face in the Abyss (its a pulp but like the best B-Movie you'll ever read, like a good version of Chronicles of Riddick ;) ).


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