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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Have a book/author you think I'd enjoy? Let me know here! And no, there's no such thing as too many recommendations.
So give me authors, or titles or series and maybe even let me know why you think I or everyone should read them! Please feel free to also include reading orders or any other things you think I should know.
Genres I read most often include fantasy, urban fantasy, some science-fiction, romance, mystery, as well as Teen/YA books!
So give me authors, or titles or series and maybe even let me know why you think I or everyone should read them! Please feel free to also include reading orders or any other things you think I should know.
Genres I read most often include fantasy, urban fantasy, some science-fiction, romance, mystery, as well as Teen/YA books!
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TITLE(S): Neverwhere
ABOUT: SO THIS GUY CALLED RICHARD, he has a pretty normal, boring sort of life, office worker, girlfriend, blah blah. Then he runs into this weird chick called Door and helps her out and okay, all's normal, right? WRONG. Shit happens and he ends up going to this area below London where things are strange and he has to deal with a lot of chaos and weirdness. This is not a good description, but it's my favorite book out of any, and it has one of the most satisfying endings I've ever read.
AUTHOR: Neil Gaiman (can you tell I like him)
TITLE(S): American Gods
ABOUT: So this dude called Shadow gets out of prison after a thing, his life turns awful, and he gets dragged into this war between new gods and old gods by this dude called Wednesday. Involves much travel across country, and a number of short little side stories interspersed about the old gods and bits of their lives.
AUTHOR: Neil Gaiman (yes again)
TITLE(S): Anansi Boys
ABOUT: Not quite a sequel to American Gods, but it's set in the same universe and relates to one of the characters that appears in it. So this dude Fat Charlie's dad dies, after which he learns he actually had a brother he never knew about. Said brother proceeds to cause various trouble for him that must be dealt with, etc.
AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood
TITLE(S): Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and there's also MaddAddam though I haven't read that one yet
ABOUT: Going with the first two - each is set up with a sort of... set of two concurrent stories, one after some disaster has messed up society, and one about society before said disaster. The two stories weave together, telling how things wound up as they did. The society itself is set in the future, with a lot of bioengineering and fancy science things to make you look young and beautiful, you know, that sort of thing. Oryx and Crake involves a boy called Jimmy growing up in the better part of the society, observing stuff that goes on - particularly a smarter friend of his who gets into bioengineering and what happens as a result; the other half the story revolves someone called "Snowman" who's surviving in what's left after things go wrong. The Year of the Flood takes place concurrent with the first book, and involves an odd cult who renounces much of modern technology and is preparing itself for a presumed end of things to come, particularly a couple girls who got involved with it, and then them surviving after the end. Characters do intersect between the two. MaddAddam definitely links back too, but as said I have yet to read it. (I want to, though.) The books are kind of dark, though, between the awfulness people can perpetrate against each other and the worse parts of society.
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But yes that+Anasi Boys has been on my radar a while I just haven't...gotten around to finishing things hff. But yes all of these mO_Om
As for Margaret Atwood's stuff, I'll definitely have to look into this more :0 It sounds really interesting to be sure...