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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
House of Leaves
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Isn't that the really, really weird book by Poe's brother?
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Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Shadow is even better, IMO. Great series.
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Originally Posted by Vector MycroftH
Cryptonomicon
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One of my favorite books ever. So, so very brilliant fiction.
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Let's see, books I love that I'd like to share:
John Adams (biography) by David McCullough -- absolutely brilliant.
Crown of Stars (6 book fantasy series) by Kate Elliott.
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle -- postapocalyptic fiction at its very best.
Great Physicists by William H. Cropper -- an absolutely wonderful set of mini-biographies of the men and women who shaped and reshaped physics, from Galileo to modern day.
A Song of Ice and Fire (series, unfinished thus far) by George R. R. Martin. Very violent and stunningly well-written.
Neverwhere by Niel Gaiman (*everything* by Gaiman is worth reading, but I particularly recommend this,
American Gods, and
Anansi Boys)
Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath (whimsical detective fiction)
Afraid by Jack Kilborne (pen name of JA Konrath -- horror, quick read and not too deep)
Anything and everything by GK Chesterton, especially
The Everlasting Man,
Heretics,
Orthodoxy,
What's Wrong with the World,
Eugenics and Other Evils,
The Man Who was Thursday, and -- who am I kidding, everything the man wrote.
The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia -- Eric was a frat brother of my brother Jake at Cornell, and "Jake Freivald" is a character in the book, as well as the recently-released movie "Repo Men" based on the book. Grotesquely violent and filled with black, very funny humor. Eric also wrote the rather brilliant book
Matchstick Men, that has a Nicholas Cage movie that is nearly but not quite as brilliant based on it.
Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony by James T. Cushing (not at all for the layman, but a great read for those interested in both physics and philosophy. If you aren't already well versed in both, don't bother.)
Black Sun Rising (and it's sequels, fantasy) by C.S. Friedman
The How to do it Book of Beekeeping by Richard Taylor,
Organic Beekeeping by Ross Conrad, and
The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum... If that's your kind of thing.
And of course, for those with access to the internet, I suggest reading my one published short story,
A Taste for Life, at
http://www.flashfictiononline.com/f2...-freivald.html -- along with dozens of other great short stories at flashfictiononline.com /shameless plug