Books. Yum.

[katekat]

So I just got to do something I truly love doing - made a book recommendation for a friend.  And it made me want to rec books to every one!  And get recomendations in return...

Anybody want to play?? 

Recommend 1 book to me that you think I'll like, and I'll do the same for you!

What do I usually read (other than fanfic and lj), you wonder?

• Fantasy
• Sci Fi (including Speculative Fiction, Cyberpunk -- which i adore but have tapped out, and space opera)
• Detective Fiction (from true crime to old school noir)
• Japanese lit (duh, huh?)
• regular lit - although usually I like my authors dead before I read it
• comedy (like Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, that kind of thing)
• nonfiction (only if it's very very interesting, though, because it takes a lot to keep me going)
• Graphic novels
  

ok, so... please rec? and tell me if you hate reading a genre so i don't give you something you wouldn't touch as a rec in return.  I promise I'll pick you something good if you do!

Comments

Re: how much morbidity can you handle??

[katekat]

and I'm an utter idiot - here's you rec:

The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith. She's a brilliant writer who seems to get left out of summaries when they do the 'greats' of noir fiction, but I love every word she rights. This book has a totally subtle tone, and makes you wonder what is going on until the very end, but at the same time it's more because Highsmith creates characters that could be evil or simply stupid, and then wraps it up in a way that lets you know it's both.