I finished Magician recently, and I'm looking for something else to read. Instead of raiding the book store and looking for something, I thought I'd ask which books you consider to be spectacular.
I'm not looking for a book that has any particular outstanding single characteristic such as a contrived plot, deep philosophy or detailed world-building. I'm looking for a book that destroyed your life for the time that you read it - because you couldn't put it down, and afterwards you put it down and went 'wow'.
Thanks!
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Amazing books you think people must read
20/06/2010 08:35:22 PM
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If you insist...
20/06/2010 11:05:30 PM
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Actually, I did better on that list than I was expecting beforehand.
20/06/2010 11:24:17 PM
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The main ones coming to mind are 1984, Possession and The Discovery of Heaven.
20/06/2010 11:27:48 PM
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sadly I have not been wowed by a book in a while
21/06/2010 12:07:33 AM
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Catch 22
21/06/2010 02:03:18 AM
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It's that good? I have it on my shelf here but haven't read it. *NM*
21/06/2010 05:13:55 PM
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Let's just say it makes an impact.
21/06/2010 06:22:10 PM
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I enjoyed it. The absurdism--not all that unlike Vonnegut in many instances--made for a lot of fun.
22/06/2010 02:50:49 AM
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I'd say...
21/06/2010 03:11:24 AM
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Baxter's book The Raft was an interesting book
21/06/2010 02:35:32 PM
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I haven't read anything else of his. Just what he did with Clarke on that series.
22/06/2010 12:08:15 AM
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's the July Book Club selection, too. *NM*
21/06/2010 05:13:25 PM
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didn't the Russian Book Club just cover that book? *NM*
21/06/2010 05:17:59 PM
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Nope... The RAFO book club is joining the Russian book club to discuss it in July.
21/06/2010 05:20:36 PM
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Thanks for all the kind suggestions! *NM*
21/06/2010 05:56:37 PM
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Pale Fire by Nabakov. Or Lolita for that matter. *NM*
21/06/2010 08:22:56 PM
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Pale Fire was excellent. Especially for people who enjoy when Frost is mocked.
22/06/2010 12:49:38 AM
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