Sup /book/ateers, I need to start reading books again and would like for you strapping fellers to list your top 5 Must-read-before-dying Books, I'm talking about books people just have to read no matter what they're into. Compelling, Even brick shitting or scary, Adventures, Crime. I don't care, Just list your top 5 must get books. I'm going to the library tomorrow and don't have a clue what to get.
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Anonymous2008-08-06 3:15
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars;
Neal Stephenson's Baroque cycle;
Paul Melko, Singularity's Ring;
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things;
Or you could just check out a book from a never-miss author like the above, Charlie Stross, William Gibson, or C.J. Cherryh.
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Anonymous2008-08-06 8:42
This is just what came off the top of my head;
Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask
Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
Albert Camus, The Plague
John Milton, Paradise Lost
JD Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Not my definitive list, but all very good. Definitely read Geek Love if you have yet to do so.