Favorite author/book

[Bblconsumer]

I just finished a book (The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin), and was wondering if anyone else had favorite authors/books that i might read.

 

[ChainedCrow]

i dont really read that much (im planning to do it more) but the one book i readed around 2-3 years ago for my own enjoyment was No Longer Human (A Shameful Life) by Osamu Dazai

 

[alwaysalone]

Im pretty pedestrian. I love the classics Tolkien, Lewis, Dickens, poe, Jackson, stoker etc...

 

[wham311]

Chuck palahniuk

But I haven't read in book in decades

 

[JealousOfTheElderly]

I love anything in the Fantasy / Sci-fi genre. Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series was great. Here are some more suggestions:
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Semiosis by Sue Burke

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

 

[darksouls]

I love anything in the Fantasy / Sci-fi genre. Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series was great. Here are some more suggestions:
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Semiosis by Sue Burke

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

I have watched all episodes of Legend of the Seeker
they are based on The Sword of Truth
the characters are very likeable

 

[lukewarmlemon4de]

I haven't read properly for ages but I remember really liking The Shining (stephen king)

 

[JealousOfTheElderly]

I have watched all episodes of Legend of the Seeker
they are based on The Sword of Truth
the characters are very likeable

I enjoyed Legend of the Seeker and was bummed when they cancelled the series. I do wish they followed the books a little more closely.
I also was bummed when Terry Goodkind passed. No one seems to know how he died. I wonder if he took his own life.

 

[ImnotCTB]

I have 0 money and my taste is different

Ghost in the City: Cyberpunk Gamer SI by Seras

 

[lamy's sacred sleep]

The trouble with being born was really up there for me, i enjoyed reading it.

 

[katara]

I haven't read properly for ages but I remember really liking The Shining (stephen king)

I hated that movie never understood why it was so popular

 

[lukewarmlemon4de]

I hated that movie never understood why it was so popular

never watched the movie tbh (i cant stand horror movies)

 

[darksouls]

Cursio Malaparte

 

[-nobodyknows-]

"From the New World" by Yusuke Kishi. It's a rather tragic story, where you gradually realize just how messed up things are as the story goes on. However, I really like the conclusion that is drawn at the end. The idea that, even in a cruel and twisted world, we can still try to make it a little bit better.

 

[Ashu]

The Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.

 

[istherehope]

Flaubert and Proust (:

 

[XKZyn]

Christopher Paolini and Rick Riordan. I'm a fan on fantasy books, picky with what I read though.

 

[muu]

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a personal favorite. maybe it's because it reminds me of my own current situation. :-)

 

[brokenspirited]

The Peaceful Pill Handbook by Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart.

 

[alwaysalone]

I hated that movie never understood why it was so popular

Because it was Kubrick and Nicholson. I hated it as well. The made for tv movie was better imo and it was closer to the book.

 

[ApparentlyNot]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is my favorite author. I suppose the Brothers Karamazov is probably my favorite book by him, but I don't know if it's my favorite book per se and I actually find it very grating to read. There is just so much truth to his characters - their essences are so poignant and perfectly portrayed despite their whole being perhaps surreal and unrealistic. Kafka is also a favorite, few authors resonate on such a level emotionally for me.

 

[Akashaaa]

Romantic manifesto by Rand. It changed how I viewed art entirely.

 

[Mr. Snrub]

Thomas Ligotti/The Conspiracy against the Human Race

It was a revelation at one point but now it's just comfort reading. Pessimistic stuff is all just comfort reading now. Re-affirming to myself over and over that life really is that bad so I don't have to feel that bad about hating every second of it.

It's gonna stop working entirely one day.

 

[avalon_]

Currently:
The Upanishads
The crisis of the modern world - René Guénon

 

[temporal_anchorite]

Flaubert and Proust (:

this isn't really relevant to the post, but I had to stop by and say I love your pfp. Stalker is one of my favorite movies of all time. Tarkovsky is truly a brilliant filmmaker :)

And is there not a SaSu megathread for cinephiles to discuss movies??