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I think you'd like this, it's short stories, but they are all about war.
I liked this book until the end when he goes full pewep. I was ready to go track this dude down, then I remembered it was just a book.
I started it, then got sidetracked. THEN GoT came out on HBO and I forgot all about the books.
Read the Dune series. - Like the first 3 if memory serves, or maybe the first two... then got bored with the 3rd or 4th
Read For Whom The Bell Tolls - great book
Here are some of my favorites from years past:
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hugo (haven't read Les Miserables yet)
Odyssey and the Illiad
Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux - much darker than the modern movies or play
Shogun series - Clavel
Edgar Allen Poe <-- everything by Poe
The Hobbit - read no less than a dozen times in 6th grade
Pillars of the Earth & World Without End - Ken Follet's best books
The Bob Lee Swagger books by Stephen Hunter
Hunt for Red October - Clancy
Dirk Pitt series - Clive Cussler
The Hollows series - Kim Harrison - surprisingly good if you like supernatural based fiction
Necroscope series - Brian Lumley
Damn, I may have to re-read some of those
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The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck
Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
Like guerilla said, Neal Stephenson is great. Snow Crash was his first big hit ,I think, and totally worth reading. I read Reamde a little while ago too, really good. I haven't read his baroque trilogy though, like 5000 pages altogether, but I've heard it's great.
If you like decective stories, check out Dennis Lehane and James Elroy. Cool fantasy and nutty weirdness, Neil Gaiman and Tim Sandlin.
Books kick ass.
Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
Like guerilla said, Neal Stephenson is great. Snow Crash was his first big hit ,I think, and totally worth reading. I read Reamde a little while ago too, really good. I haven't read his baroque trilogy though, like 5000 pages altogether, but I've heard it's great.
If you like decective stories, check out Dennis Lehane and James Elroy. Cool fantasy and nutty weirdness, Neil Gaiman and Tim Sandlin.
Books kick ass.
I think I read this series around the same time that I read The Hobbit, but I don't remember them at all.
Re-read!
Thanks bro. I was going to read it until you dropped your enormous shit on my excitement.
If you like detective stories, Cold Is The Grave is a great book. Or anything by Peter Robinson, for that matter.
I should add that most people I know who read the book thought the particular idea was good. I thought it was something else.
Please be aware before attempting to read this book that it does not read the same as the hobbit or LOTR.
Maybe it's because I was in 9th or 10th grade but it read more like a history book and timeline of events than a fictional story... this person does this and this person does that. Only truly interesting if you are a LOTR nut (I was), and even I kinda got sick of it towards the end.
Parts of it are kinda like the bible actually, Morgoth begat Sauron, Eru Iluvatar creates this dude, Elrond was born unto this guy etc., and they all fight and shit. Would not recommend for casual readers unless you get a a feeling of elation or ecstasy hearing this: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
Second this!
The Things They Carried is an awesome collection of shorts. I'm also not a huge fan of O'Brien, but this is a fantastic collection from a guy that was actually over there. From the people I know that were in Vietnam, his stories are a fairly accurate portrayal of the day-to-day bullshit and the emotions / emotional damage that those fighting in it dealt with.
I've been to two of his presentations (Dogwood Fine Arts Fest, and one in college at WMU). The best author I've seen as a speaker. And I think that's saying something since I've also seen Heller, Kesey, Vonnegut, Oates, Updike, Alice Walker, etc.
I guess that's when happens when you grow up in a small town that spends a fuck ton of money to bring heavyweights to the annual arts festival. #TotalLitNerd
Angela Carter tells fantastic stories. But how could you not list The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman along with the two that you did? I think it's by far her best and most compelling work. It is fairly involved reading, but so is most of her stuff once you get past the surface absurdities of her tales.
Another one I would suggest is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
It's probably my favorite book on it's own merit, but the history of it is fascinating as well. It wasn't published in it's entirety until nearly 30 years after he died because of the picture he paints of Stalin's Russia (even though the two were fairly close at one point).
Books are awesome. We should all do more reading for pleasure.
Pretty simple reason why I didn't list it - I haven't read it yet. I agree with everything else that you wrote about Carter though.
