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Last post: 4 years, 9 months ago | Thread started: Sep 10, 08, 5:17 p.m.

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• d_rek

  Looking for some good fiction to indulge in. I have a preference for horror, science fiction and dark fantasy.

  Currently reading:
  The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher
  by Andrzej Sapkowski

  Lets have your picks.

  Sep 10, 08, 5:17 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  I don't read ficton. It's all a bunch of lies.

  • lol.– Witt

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:18 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  I have some dark fantasies.

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:21 p.m. – Permalink

• Nairn

  Use of Weapons, The Wasp Factory or any other book by Iain (M) Banks.

  Seem to recall these two as particularly dark.

  • Just read this fir the first time. Great and nasty at the same time.– 5timuli

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:23 p.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  china mieville - king rat & perdido street station

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:24 p.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  ...ps good thread. can we have qbn book club?

  • +1– d_rek1/3

    I'm in. the design one never worked.– Witt2/3

    you never know with irony, do you?– Witt3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:25 p.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  What's dark fantasy?

  • Isn’t that the strip club that Tracy Jordan took Liz Lemon to in the first ep of 30Rock?– MrOneHundred1/5

    I really don't know. I live in a small corner of Europe :P– Witt2/5

    Our darkest fantasies are about hi-jacking goats in the mountains.– Witt3/5

    No, we’re on the same page.– MrOneHundred4/5

    ahahah.– Witt5/5

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:34 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  nerd

  • not only am I a nerd but i'm a dork too!– d_rek1/3

    your a nork?– designbot2/3

    I think that can be said of the majority here. Inclusive of me.– flashbender3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:37 p.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  if you mix a nerd with a noob, what do you get?

  • a nerb.– designbot1/3

    Ah - finally something that suits me!– Witt2/3

    haha...I have the nerd part down pat ;)– designbot3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:38 p.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  "I have a preference for horror, science fiction and dark fantasy" ... Did you ever read any Lovecraft (H. P. Lovecraft)?

  • Yes. Lots. Also have just about every Stephen King book.– d_rek1/2

    Ah. then... I don't think I can help. I'm usually 100 yrs late in my readings.– Witt2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:42 p.m. – Permalink

• designbot

  Hackers: Hero's of the computer revolution.

  Old book, but an awesome read.

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:42 p.m. – Permalink

• cannonball

  I started an advance copy of Anathem but it's way too much for me to get through. I also started on Orcs (which is like reading a cartoon) and been slowly tearing away at Moby Dick.

  • http://www.amazon.co…
    
    its like... waaay too long. but good.– cannonball

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:50 p.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  Moby Dick is my favourite book - I think. I have read it 3 times now (in different stages of life, or moods) and it has always been surprising and inspiring. I think that's what makes a good book, a classic, or "your" book (among others, of course, but just "that" book). A book you keep reading and re-reading as you go on with your life. "Moby Dick" is that kind of book to me.

  • I just like the way Melville writes. There's something hilarious about it, despite the author being a total wifebeater.– cannonball1/5

    a wifebeater? Had no clue. Still a piece of good writing has nothing to do with your intimacy, I believe.– Witt2/5

    I don't understand why you bring it up, cannonball - most great authors and artists have "despicable" lives.– Witt3/5

    Picasso was a cunt. Van Gogh was mad. Golding was a drunkard. Coleridge was a drug addict. And so on...– Witt4/5

    All of the above treated their wifes like shit.– Witt5/5

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 5:59 p.m. – Permalink

• katekelly

  The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl is pretty good. Its set in Boston in the mid 1800s...a bunch of scholars and kings of the literary world are getting together to translate Dante, while murders are taking place mirroring those in his work...not bad.

  book club!?! yesss please!!!

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 6:15 p.m. – Permalink

• 5timuli

  The Road by Cormac McCarthy is great. Not sci-fi, not fantasy, but worth reading.

  "It is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted years before by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and, seemingly, most life on earth."

  • That one is on my list. Just haven't had the chance yet.– Witt1/5

    same here– katekelly2/5

    Awesome book. couldn't put it down.– royer3/5

    It's already a movie with Viggo Mortensen. Comes out in November.– 5timuli4/5

    We better hurry then, since hardly no one reads the book after watching the film.– Witt5/5

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 6:19 p.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  It's not dark fantasy, but you may like this one if you don't know it already. It's a masterpiece, and I assure you you'll read it compulsively. I think it has all the ingredients to keep you engaged until the last page:

  http://www.amazon.com/Invention-…

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 6:20 p.m. – Permalink

• Witt

  A classic on looming terror, darkness and madness:
  http://www.amazon.com/Horla-Art-…

  • This one should be definitely a go.– Witt

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 6:55 p.m. – Permalink

• stoplying

  Tucker Max...James Frey?

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 6:55 p.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  

  • Never read it. What's it about?– Witt

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 6:56 p.m. – Permalink

• meffid

  

  • one of the best books ever.– meffid

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 7:03 p.m. – Permalink

• dog_opus

  Can't beat Flannery O'Connor for some good ol'-fashioned effed up stories of woe, ill fate, and the happy-fun dark human soul.

  

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  Dog-earSep 10, 08, 7:08 p.m. – Permalink