I need some recommendations for some good (and unusual) fiction

[fatbaby]

any harrypothead/pokemon novel

~fat

 

[Brutuskend]

Anything by Frank Herbert is worth a read.

I have read every book he ever wrote, and they are all good.

One I highly recommend is "The Jesus Incident"

That book became a trilogy.

The second one is called "The Lazarus Effect"

The Third was started by Frank Herbert but finished by another author after his death. Although I have the book, I don't remember the name. (Sorry)


Hear hear on the Michener as well!

I've read all his work's too. (except for a few really obscure one's I can't find)

Ann Rice, Clavell, Koontz, Kurt Vonnegut, And I started Snow Crash, but haven't finished it yet.

(I read a lot) (I have no life)

 

[linuxboy]

odyn den v zhyzni ivana denisovicha (one day in the life of ivan denisovich), archipelag gulag (gulag archipelago) - solzhenitsyn were good

a different dystopia: my (We)- zamiatin

try Lingshan (soul mountain) - Gao Xingjian
let's see...

good and unusual.... If you're up for some religion, read the Vedas, they get interesting and unusual and can be construed as fiction.

Tin drum by gunter grass
toni morrison: bluest eye, beloved, paradise.
ralph emerson: invisible man

what historical period of fiction are you into?

Cheers ! 🙂

 

[LoneWolf1]

Anything by Louis L'Amour.

 

[Brutuskend]

LoneWolf1 you'll appreciate this!
When I was in USMC boot camp in 71, I (somehow) got a hold of a copy of "The Broken Gun".

I don't remember HOW I got it, but you know HOW HARD getting any reading material (except a Sunday paper) is in Boot Camp.

I had about 40 guys in line for it when I finished it!

That book is what got me reading again. After I finished that book (and got out of boot camp) I read everything of his I could. Then eventually I branched out into reading all kinds of books.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Well since you like the Clive Barker book your reading now check out Weave World and The Great and Secret Show. They are both pretty freakin wierd and neat.

If you liked Rice's Vamp series check out Brian Lumley's Necroscope series.

 

[Arkitech]

Thanks for all the suggestions

I'll print this post and take it with me to the library

 

[PrinceofWands]

Alan Dean Foster has a very strange series...the series title is 'Journeys of the Catachist', it has 3 fairly short books...different kind of fantasy, with some wonderful little chapter twists in it. I really enjoyed it.