04-18-2013, 01:36 PM | #1 |
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Tell me what to read
Yes. Another "recommend me something to read" thread. Except different.
I could peruse the many other recommendation threads, but that would still involve me having to actually make a choice. Clearly, the current "selection funk" I'm in hinges on my ability to choose—an ability that seems to have temporarily abandoned me—so I'm not going to (choose). You are. I'm going to read what the first person tells me to read—the first person to give me a title that falls within certain parameters, that is. The "rules:"
First title that doesn't break any of the rules gets read. GO! P.S. I promise not to lie about having read it or not, if you promise not to waste time trying to thwart the "not part of any series" rule through the usual semantic hooey. Last edited by DiapDealer; 04-18-2013 at 02:09 PM. |
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04-18-2013, 01:57 PM | #3 |
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How about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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04-18-2013, 02:02 PM | #4 |
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True. I'm in the U.S. I appear to have a "winner" already, but since I may return to this thread from time to time, it's certainly relevant.
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks fits most of the criteria, I think. Just don't know if you've read it?
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Great! Let us know what you think.
I was first thinking of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but since you said no series, and that one is supposedly part of series, I recommended the winner |
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"The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.
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04-18-2013, 02:55 PM | #10 |
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I realized I couldn't play when I got to Rule #6. (I read a LOT of series stuff).
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04-18-2013, 04:31 PM | #11 |
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The City at World's End by Edmund Hamilton is good. It's older but it is available online to download (I think it's at manybooks.net).
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04-18-2013, 04:39 PM | #12 |
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
Or, Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. I read Kafka on the Shore not too long ago, it was quite... odd. Yet good, too. I'm not quite sure what genre it would be considered... it's definitely speculative fiction, though it doesn't really fall into what I consider fantasy and it's not science fiction or horror. |
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If you have not already read Armor by John Steakley, you might give it a go.
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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
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04-18-2013, 07:36 PM | #15 |
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Life After Life - by Kate Atkinson
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