scardella Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 (edited) Okay, it seems like it's been forever since I've read a good fiction book not by one of the following: GK Chesterton - Fr Brown stuff, Man who Was Thursday, Manalive, etc. CS Lewis - Narnia, Space Trilogy JRR Tolkien - LotR/Hobbit Recommend me some books. Please. I like lots of stuff, but don't care for Jane Austen-type girly stuff. Examples of things I like (apart from above): Fr. Elijah - don't remember Heart of Darkness - Conrad Catch-22 - Heller Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card used to like D&D books (been a decade and a half) Isaac Asimov (eg I, Robot) The Hunt for Red October Didn't like: Pride and Prejudice - meh, but finished it. Catcher in the Rye I am the coagulated milk Plays in general Epic poems Edited August 17, 2011 by scardella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 If you liked Heart of Darkness, you should read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. It will be an interesting contrast in the Colonial and Postcolonial genres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 [i]Les Miserables[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Dostoevsky from Crime and Punishment on. Tolstoy's War and Peace. Salman Rushdi's early stuff. Matterhorn is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 [quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1313610217' post='2290011'] Dostoevsky from Crime and Punishment on. Tolstoy's War and Peace. Salman Rushdi's early stuff. Matterhorn is good. [/quote] Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 GOGOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer (not out until Sept, though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eustace scrubb Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Flannery O'Connor's short stories. She started the "Southern Gothic" genre. And she was (RIP) a Catholic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 [quote name='eustace scrubb' timestamp='1313613630' post='2290056'] Flannery O'Connor's short stories. She started the "Southern Gothic" genre. And she was (RIP) a Catholic. [/quote] Flannery O'Connor was four years old when Faulkner published [i]The Sound and the Fury[/i]. I don't think she can be credited with starting the Southern Gothic subgenre. That said, she is still an amazing author, and my favorite of those who wrote in the Southern Gothic style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eustace scrubb Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 That's what [s]s[/s]he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizz_loves_jesus Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 [quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1313610303' post='2290014'] The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz [/quote] I second this. Also, the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) Jane Austen is NOT girly! lol. I thoroughly enjoy Jane Austen, and I am not afraid to admit it. Charles Dickens - Bleak House Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short Stories Beowulf Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Dostoevsky - House of the Dead Franz Kafka - The Trial Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man Edited August 18, 2011 by Era Might Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 [quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1313629146' post='2290226'] Jane Austen is NOT girly! [/quote] Yes she is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) [quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1313629189' post='2290229'] Yes she is. [/quote] Not tuttall. Merely having women as your main characters doesn't make your book girly. Men are central to her novels too. Mr. Darcy. Mr. Bennett. Mr. Collins. Etc. Edited August 18, 2011 by Era Might Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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