2000AD Online "Recommend A Book Day"

[Jimbo San]

I'll recommend "The Antipope" by Robert Rankin.

Beer, comedy, magic beans and occultism. 'Nuff said.

[thinky]

i'll recommend 2

Jack Kerouac's On The Road
Milan Kindera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

love 'em both to bits for completely different reasons

thinky

[Generally Contrary]

At the moment I'm reading my way through Kurt Vonnegut's bibliography, and so far I would recommend them all.

[Capt.Zeep]

"Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban.

I read it the other week and was so impressed I had to start again!

Fantastic post-apocalyptic dark age tale, superbly told by the eponymous hero in broken English.  To tell too much more would somewhat spoil the page turning gruesome delight, but trust me 'tis a great book and heartily recommended.

[Tiplodocus]

"On the Road" is one of only two books I never finished. I found the back and forth spliffery rather dull. The other is Dickens' Hard Times.

At the moment I'm reading FIRST LIGHT - that spitfire pilot memoir.  Very good. And sad.  There's poetry in the way he describes soaring through the heavens - and an especially good contrast with his first "kill".

 

[Richmond Clements]

I couldn't make it to the end of On The Road either, but I'm fully prepared to accept that I may be missing something.

[chris_askham]

I was a tad disappointed with On The Road by the time I got round to reading it.

Currently reading Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland. It's about a girl in a coma. Better than I expected.

[+rufus+]

'Anubis Gates' or 'Drawing of the Dark" by Tim Powers. Fantasy/thriller/history, recommended by an animation pal of mine.  My mother would be so proud to know I'm reading.
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[Wils]

Currently reading Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland.

I've read Generation X several times, but not picked up anything else by Coupland. Nothing much at all happens in Generation X, but somehow it's a compelling read.

Another of my fave books (and I'm slowly managing to get hold of the others) is:
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[thrillpowerseeker]

I tend to have multiple books on the go at the same time and pick up one of them according to my moods...currently I'm halfway through 'Stan and Ollie' by Simon Louvish, Laurel and Hardy being particular heroes of mine and I'd recommend this one highly..

Another one I've just started is 'Hurricane' by Bill Borrows..too early to say anything about this one yet..

'Firewall' by Henning Mankell is a cracking novel about some cyber terrorists in Sweden...gonna dig out some of his back catalogue some time soon

The last book I completed was Robert Rankin's 'The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse' ..what an odd little book it was..set in Toytown of all places, had more twists than a corkscrew and was enjoyable post christmas reading

T.P.S

[Pyroxian]

Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton - cracking Sci-fi, but about 4000 pages long all told... If you want an easier introduction to his stuff, read Fallen Dragon which is also outstanding.

I'm currently reading the Age of Misrule trilogy by Mark Chadbourne (what's with these trilogies, don't sci-fi/fantasy authors write stand alone novels any more?). Anyway - the AOM is the start of a post-apocalyptic Britain caused by the Celtic gods coming back at the start of this millenium. The first two books aren't fantastically written but the thrid one's turning out to be a corker.

BTW anyone got any good Post-apocalyptic books to recommend? I love 'em.

    Steve

[thinky]

it took me a while to get into On The Road, but as i was bumming around and travelling at the time, it seemed to strike a chord

on the basis of that fine book i went straight out and bought Desolation Angels by the same author... that was too much and i must have 'started' it 10 times before i gave up and hid it so i didn't try again

thinky

[thinky]

oh, and excellent topic btw blackblood... a good post-whatever exercise in getting us all chummy again

thinky

[The Amstor Computer]

Steve - check out the fantastic "Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe. There are four books that have been collected in two volumes, "Shadow & Claw" and "Sword & Citadel".

Thinky - thanks. Fingers crossed :-)

And thanks everyone who's posted so far - I've read some of the books mentioned, but I'm definitely going to be asking my library to order many of the others.

[Bolt-01]

I am currently reading Isaac Asimov The complete stories 2.

A lovely collection of short tales by one of my faves. Must read for all lovers of future shocks.

Recently re-read all the Dark tower books (to date) by Stephen King. Very rewarding to those who have his back catalogue.

Next up is: Evolution by Stephen Baxter. I'll let you know if I like it as much as Titan.

Bolt-01