Tell Us What Books We Should Be Reading

[Avatar]

You're one up on me, I've never read or even heard of any of them.

--A

[Fist and Faith]

Get that first one. I read something else by Stapledon, Odd John, because it has telepathy. Then figured I’d try this. Turns out Loredoctor loves it, too.

But yeah, what are the odds we never heard of all those classics??

[Ambatos]

If few people recognize the author/title, is it really a classic?

Something Interesting from my To Read list - Taleb's Fooled by Randomness

Something that might be educational - Wheelan's Naked Economics

Lots of SF stories with a little depth - Orson Scott Card's Ender series
(skip the movie)

For us 1980's nerds - Ready Player One
(again, skip the movie)

[Fist and Faith]

If few people recognize the author/title, is it really a classic?

Zackly

[peter]

Just finished a book called The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

Absolutely top grade stuff in the manner of an almost Dickensian fantasy city. A disreputable charlatan as hero and a cast of villains to make the mouth water.

Great, great fun. A genuine page turner and I mean it.



(Ps. "Zackly". Now there's a word I'd never have expected to see outside Cornwall. It's exactly (hem hem) how the Cornish people say the word 'exactly'. It even features on the back of our local buses that have this and other Cornish pronunciations on them ("Wosson" for whats on, "Dreckly" for directly etc). I like it! )

[sgt.null]

Currently reading two Stephen King...

Fairy Tale

You Like It Darker (short story collection)

I have his Holly up next.

Not enjoying Fairy Tale. Love the short stories.

[Earthfriend]

I don't feel comfortable telling anyone what they should be doing, however, with that caveat in place, you should be reading Involution Ocean, by Bruce Sterling.

It's quite short by today's standards, but don't let that fool you - not a single word is wasted. Thought provoking Sci-fi at its finest.