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I need a book. A good book. A book that I will enjoy. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 06/02/2011 08:25:51 AM
My friends, you are more suited to the challenge set before you than any other, excepting possibly my Facebook friends, who have the advantage of seeing this exact message about thirty minutes before you as well as the undeniable joy of knowing me personally.


YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE.


(This is why we keep recommendations threads announced, dearest moderators)

I've read MALAZAN, aSoIaF, Black Company, and BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. I haven't read Sanderson's stuff, Williams' stuff, or Bakker's stuff. I'm looking for anything interesting.

I invite you to recommend things beyond fantasy, though I would ask that you keep them to fiction in English.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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I need a book. A good book. A book that I will enjoy. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:51 AM 1505 Views
Zadie Smith - White Teeth. Legolas - 06/02/2011 11:31:06 AM 1356 Views
Spring Snow looks good, thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:32:51 PM 580 Views
The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... jh - 06/02/2011 12:57:01 PM 1304 Views
Re: The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... Dreadlord - 12/02/2011 09:24:55 PM 1204 Views
I recommend.... LiterateDog - 06/02/2011 02:41:48 PM 1461 Views
Sounds fun. I'll check it out. Thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:27:48 PM 550 Views
+1 random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:10:27 PM 1233 Views
Short fiction. Chas - 06/02/2011 03:49:50 PM 1194 Views
Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? That's been translated into English. Tom - 06/02/2011 05:09:55 PM 1104 Views
I keep starting it and having something else come up. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:30 PM 1312 Views
I am with Tom on this one Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:00:21 PM 1040 Views
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks was pretty good *NM* Fox and Ravens - 06/02/2011 09:20:58 PM 544 Views
Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Novo - 06/02/2011 09:52:43 PM 1095 Views
Sold me on the Jesuits. I'll check it out. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:25:25 AM 566 Views
Maria V Snyder - Poison Study *NM* Yunalesca - 06/02/2011 10:03:51 PM 854 Views
Different things. Decadant things. Larry - 06/02/2011 10:10:52 PM 1089 Views
Haven't read any Vandermeer, actually. You recommend him? Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:26:35 AM 1160 Views
Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him Larry - 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM 1295 Views
I'll put him on the list. Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 08:50:15 AM 1155 Views
Good Larry - 07/02/2011 09:21:59 AM 1137 Views
I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French. Tom - 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM 1119 Views
I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM 1225 Views
Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from. Legolas - 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM 1107 Views
Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers? jh - 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM 1114 Views
Not really, no. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM 1150 Views
Huh. Belgians. *NM* jh - 08/02/2011 07:23:05 AM 528 Views
irish libraries are probably 2/3 paperback to 1/3 hardback *NM* Stephen - 09/02/2011 12:00:11 AM 573 Views
I think you have two different questions there random thoughts - 07/02/2011 10:08:40 PM 1126 Views
Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM 1139 Views
so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks random thoughts - 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM 1156 Views
Yes, that's definitely a factor. Legolas - 09/02/2011 07:30:14 PM 1189 Views
Re: Yes, that's definitely a factor. Camilla - 09/02/2011 07:39:25 PM 1166 Views
Have you tried Anne of Green Gables or Middllemarch? Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:16:51 AM 1095 Views
Have you read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss? *NM* Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:18:30 AM 567 Views
Anything by PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Stephen - 07/02/2011 03:21:43 AM 1108 Views
Or, indeed, Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth books Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:01:15 PM 1048 Views
Julian Comstock random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:12:39 PM 1392 Views
You might like Quicksilver. *NM* Camilla - 07/02/2011 07:09:32 PM 659 Views
Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, esp. Good Omens (w/Pratchett). More recommendations inside ... Bookwyrm - 08/02/2011 05:43:22 PM 1328 Views
The Man Who Was Thursday! cabbage - 18/02/2011 12:44:56 PM 1043 Views
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