I am a real bookworm, a day without reading is not a good day for me. And I'd really love to have some good recommendations so I can add more books to my collection.
My favourite books are fantasy, classics (but I hate Dickens and Twain, I just don't like the way they write), intelligent comics... I love writers like Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Brontë, Amelie Nothomb, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien and even a bit of Marian Keyes every now and then.
So, any recommendations? =)
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In terms of comics... Darwyn Cooke's DC: New Frontier is fantastic, as are several comics by Robert Kirkman (I love Invincible and The Walking Dead the best).
Just so you know, New Frontier and Invincible are superhero stuff (but very intelligent), and The Walking Dead is a psychological zombie horror comic.
Which Twain did you read, out of curiousity?
Along with that, I'd say The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. A lot of people are actually chalking it up to be the modern day LotR, so!
On the comic section, I don't know if you like superhero comics, but Brubaker's run of Captain America has been absolutely amazing. Lots of political intrigue and all. The first 25 issues of his run is all collected in an omnibus, too.
The Wind on Fire Trilogy by William Nicholson is also enjoyable, especially the middle book, Slaves of the Mastery.
Keith Donohue's novel, The Stolen Child is an awesome fantasy aimed at adults.
The Women in White by Wilkie Collins is a very easy to read classic.
Utopia by Sir Thomas More is a classic I'm currently reading. It's translated from latin and is very awkward to get into, but if you're interested in politics it might be worth a go.
I am Legend by Richard Matheson is gritty, adult fantasy and for me was a very good read.
I personally read through a book that listed and gave descriptions of 501 books from various genres that were considered classics or modern classics and then made a list of the ones that sounded interesting. I now have a list of around 250 books to read - I'm slowly going though it.
I especially loved Neil Gaiman's "Anansi Boys" and "Coraline".
Somplace to be Flying,/i> by Chareles De Lint (this is urban fantasy)
The Mirror of Her Dreams, A Man Rides Through (Mordant's Need vol. I & II) by Stephen R Donaldson
Intelligent Comics (I'm guessing you mean graphic novels/comic books):
Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore (at least the first thirty issues which I believe are all available in volumes)
The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Someone also recommened Tad Williams. I liked the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series but not Otherland
Classics:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
The Three Musketeers by Dumas
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (best in a side by side translation from Middle English)
Candide by Voltaire
Fantasy(I'll just suggest authors):
David Eddings (lowbrow high fantasy-funny)
Katherine Kurtz (medieval fantasy set in quasi Welsh setting)
Lian Hearn (medieval fantasy set in quasi japanese setting)
Judith Merkle Riley (medieval fantasy)
Terry Pratchett (hilarious)
Mercedes Lackey
Guy Gavriel Kay
Connie Willis
Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, Operation Chaos, and A Midsummer's Tempest.
Hope Mirreles's Lud-In-The-Mist
Lord Dunsany's The Charwoman's Shadow
Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn
Patricia McKillip's Riddle of the Stars trilogy: Riddle Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind
Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds
There are currently ten books in the series (the eleventh comes out in April), and Mr. Butcher has apparently planned twenty. If you've seen the show, well, don't let it influence you, the show was crap, imo.
Friend L: Something called Watchmen
Me: *spits out mouthful of Pepsi*