2013-01-23, 02:24 AM
Gunship Wrote:*book thread bump for the new year*
I liked seeing someone who read The Picture of Dorian Gray as I browsed through here, that's definitely in my top favorites for classics (and Oscar Wilde is a dear favorite author of mine).
I don't suppose anyone here has kept up with Lemony Snicket? The book he published this... last year, All The Wrong Questions, was very enjoyable to read. I'm a long-time fan of the Unfortunate Events series and universe so it was especially exciting to pick up. Now I just need the second book. Ergh, cliffhangers. While I wait for it I've started on Good Omens, because I've had that book sitting on my shelf for about a year now. I like it so far, within the first one-hundred pages.
I guess this is all a roundabout way of wondering if anyone else reads Neil Gaiman or Lemony Snicket here? They're my favorite modern writers, by far.
High-five, Lemony Snicket fan here! I'm not too fond of how A Series of Unfortunate Events ended but I think he did a great job of writing a book that's suitably dark enough for an adult and yet is easy enough for a kid to understand as well. I've read Good Omens a long time ago as well so I ought to get it again since the previous book was borrowed and The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favourite classics, along with Frankenstein.
And while we're looking for favourite authors, does anyone here read books by Joe Abercrombie? My friend introduced me to his works such as The First Law series (The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Feast of Kings) and I've been hooked on it ever since. What I enjoy about his works is that he doesn't bother to sugarcoat and he makes a very convincing argument as to why battles are bad but they happen anyway, while his characters are variously on the sliding scale of bad and evil but they sometimes do good things or can still be good people. I highly recommend this series if you're a fan of low fantasy and you like continuity as all of his books thus far have been set in the same world.