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monstor666:
The Dark Tower Series
Anything by Tolkien
Paradise Lost
The Bible
Hakunoe:
i recommend White Fang hopefully no one did lol
daveLovesIt:
Great recommendations here, from what I've seen. I look forward to parsing this thread more slowly and finding some new gems... thanks to all posters for sharing!
For a quickish "must-read" darkish comedy, Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaimen). It's old school Pratchett humour and plot-hooks given a good polish by Gaimen's dark and steely style. If you like either author, you won't put this down.
For fans of grittier sci-fi, and those who like deep metaphors about how sh1t and corporate the world is, Market Forces by Richard Morgan blew my FRICKIN' MIND. It has a very cyberpunk vibe, although it lacks the very key cyberspace element to be truly placed in that genre.
When I was a devoted karateka and very interested in Japanese culture, but knew nothing of aikido, a friend made me read Angry White Pajamas, by Robert Twigger. I have since made many others read it, and I hope you do too; and also that it inspires you in the way that it inspired us.
My favourite classic, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was a book I read many times in my angsty and gloomy late teens and early twenties, when I desired greatly to be known as a "well-read" person, but secretly just wanted one damn good book to quote. Similarly, although I hated it, female peers have listed Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar in a very similar fashion, for almost identical reasons. Their experiences were so similar to mine that I had to list them together, even though the books are nothing alike.
Sabinlerose:
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series is quite amazing.
Full of fun, and generally a pretty easy read.
If your up for a real challenge, you could always read every Star Wars novel ever produced.
Im currently undertaking said challenge.
TightMuffin:
Already been mentioned in this thread, but I think it bears mentioning again: Snow Crash and The Diamond Age (both by Neal Stephenson) are both very, very good. Just finished reading both of them recently. I liked Cryptonomicon, too, though I dropped it about halfway a few years back, because I got distracted with other things.
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