in which I open a door to probable madness

[rushthatspeaks]

The branch library near my house is not terribly well-stocked, and I need to make specific requests to get things transferred between the branches. My to-be-read pile has three books left on it; I left most of my stuff in Boston. There are bookstores nearby from which I could order things,

Recommend me books. Any subject, any genre, any field. What would you be most shocked, horrified, and upset to discover that I (or anyone) hadn't read? What have you read lately? What do you return to over and over? What do you think I, personally, might not have stumbled across?

Go nuts.

Comments

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Apologies if you have read any already. I can't remember who read what.

The Line Between, Peter S. Beagle.
I absolutely loved the short stories in this collection.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
I want someone else to read this because I found the main character boring, but everything else was neat. It had a bit of the same feel as The Dark Materials Trilogy but I feel like I missed a lot of stuff.

I also liked World War Z, Bridge of Birds, and Mortal Engines but I assume you have read those.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I fail at HTML.

[nedlum.livejournal.com]

God, World War Z...

Read an advanced reader. Creepiest book I've ever come across. I've subsequently gotten several people to buy it, one essentially by letting them know that the book existed.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I loved WWZ. I remember hearing about it before it came out and finished it in a sitting.

[nedlum.livejournal.com]

Did you know Brad Pitt got the movie rights?

He also got the rights to The Sparrow. Which means I read the same books as Brad Pitt. Rock on, Alden.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Yes. Isn't it B-line Movie Productions or something along those lines? I remember looking it up after finishing the book, but didn't see all that much information on the website.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

The Line Between is a good collection. I own basically everything Beagle's ever written-- he's probably in my top five best-loved authors list, if I had one.

Now that I think of it, my boyfriend owns a lot of Haruki Murakami, which means it should be lying about here somewhere, and I should read it.

I love Bridge of Birds so much that I read it aloud to my wife; I own Mortal Engines and haven't read it yet but left it in Boston, so I should be getting to it this fall; and thank you for the rec of World War Z, of which I had heard glowing reviews from the kind of critic who doesn't bother proofreading, but nothing else. I shall look into it.

Thanks!

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

If you read it let me know what you think. The main character I thought was pretty boring. He was in fact so boring, I imagined him as Keanu Reeves. But the rest of the book I found interesting.