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I had an awesome fight over the source of Good Omens' brilliance with Zania some years ago. She's a total Gaiman fangirl and refused to accept that Pratchett had a firm hand in it.

She's reading Pratchett nowadays, so I guess that she got over it ;)

All books written by Bret Easton Ellis.

A lot of H.P. Lovecraft.

And my favourite book EVER: Stephen King's 'IT': LOVE.

Where the Wild Things Are; Where the Sidewalk Ends; In the Night Kitchen; Iacocca; A Light In The Attic; Attack Of The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons; Life, the Universe, and Everything

I like to read outdated pouet threads.

Pratchett's early stuff is really good (Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Mort, Equal Rites etc)...

the City Guard novels are good too

Anything from Pratchett :)

Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone
its a great book that im suprised hasn't been mentioned yet,
its online too:
http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html
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"Dune" - Frank Herbert
"Dark Tower" - Stephen King
"Treason", "Enders game", "Songmaster" by Orson Scott Card
"Hearts, Hands and Voices" by Ian McDonald
"Nineteen Eighty" - Four by George Orwell
"Raft" Stephen Baxter
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey

almost everything by Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt

pratchett is nice, so is herbert and lovecraft. i like ken macleod too and iain m. banks sometimes. greg bear is fun and so is neal stephenson. frederik pohl is cool and jeff noon as well. vernon vinge rocks and stephen baxter is ok. And of course i will always have a soft spot for (earlier.. ie pre 1985) larry niven and, naturally, william gibson...

come to think of it, 99% (only about 60 or so books) of the fiction in my bookshelf is 'hard' science fiction. i have this nagging feeling that i might be a nerd.

I like the Hugis where it comes to "coding with your favourite uncle, X". Man, those were the days.

Read The Colour Of Magic, found it good, went on to The Light Fantastic - even better.

the latest Gibson, 'Pattern recognition' (and it is not even a sci-fi, eheh :)
but, speaking about "hard sci-fi", Greg Egan is _the_ man. 'Diaspora'. and 'Schild's ladder'.

In hard sci-fi, Larry Niven > everything else

"Le Spastique et Pa Pere" by Jean Paul Gaultier

"The Goblin's Sorrow: Book 2, Part 4" by Terry Nutkins

"Space Pigeon: The Journey Home" by Barry McGuigan

"Leprechauns and the Stable Boy" by Michael Elfik (aka Boon of Mills and Boon fame)

days of war, nights of love.

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damn, isn't there anyone here who likes *real* books? like, not the nerdy fantasy stuff but just ehh. stuff people read. i don't know, maybe even literature or something. eh, john irving, whatever. milan kundera. why no roald dahl?

'Trainspotting' by Irvin Welsh is awesome.

oh, and i bought some Hunter S. Thompson stuff (Hells Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, etc) since i thought i should own that.

and ofcourse



a must have!!

here online

Microsoft C++ for dummies

Anything by Yukio Mishima.

skrebbel, sure :) I've read my share of Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Austen, Grass, Hesse, Sartre, Fitzgerald, Dickinson and the like (and also Irving and Dahl.. and I should really pick up Kundera), but that doesn't mean I couldn't enjoy a good fantasy or science fiction novel occasionally.

(that said, I think there are (or have been) only three writers in existence who are capable of writing good fantasy. Tolkien, Holdstock and Gaiman. The rest.. pffflegh)

Some literature I've read over the past 6 months:
In case you're Scandinavian, don't miss out on Herbjørg Wassmo's "Tora" trilogy. Also, Björn Ranelid's "Bär ditt barn som den sista droppen vatten" has some very beautiful writing, which occasionally resembles poetry more than prose in spirit.
As for English writers, well, I find that Marian Keyes's books are truly high quality entertainment.