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- flashbender0
Harlan Ellison
Tim Powers
Orson Scott Card
Steven Brustor break out of your genre and get yourself some Balzac. His books start slow, but they are a joy to read.
- waterhouse0
The Bible.
Truly though, I've said it somewhere here before, but read read read Finnegan's Wake by Joyce.
- Witt0
Eventually, we're but a sorry lump of grey goo already and funny quark strangelets are pish.
- 5timuli0
I still want to read this:
"What Is The What" by Dave Eggers
"As a boy, Deng is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab Murahaleen militia wipes out his Dinka village. He flees on foot with a group of other young boys, (the "Lost Boys"), encountering great danger and terrible hardship along the way to a refugee camp in Ethiopia; they are forced to flee a second time to another refugee camp in Kenya and finally, years later, he moves to the United States. The story is told in parallel to subsequent hardships in the United States."
- Somehow I don't need to read it now, after that great summary ;)Witt
- IRNlun60
I'm a big fan of the Star Wars novels. Currently catching up on the X-wing series. There's a ton of amazing stories that are far better than any of the movies.
I personally like some escapism after a long day behind the computer.
- ukit0
Eventually we'll be incapable of anything except posting funny pictures and typing "ROFL."
- Witt0
To be honest, I find it harder to concentrate over a book these days. It's like... you're so used to get new information on a daily basis that going over a single book seems like an excruciating task. I used to read one book at a time - but now I have a pile of unfinished readings on my desk. And no matter how I try, that pile keeps growing. This ineptitude is growing into daily tasks as well and sometimes I think I'm going mad or something.
- ukit0
I feel the same way as dog_opus and Witt. Sadly, I feel like the fast pace of modern life has changed my attitude towards entertainment.
- Witt0
Happened to me too, dog_opus. I think I can report it to the period when I started to worry myself with work and trying hard to make a living all wrapped-up over an increased use of the Internet, or use of on-line resources.
Somehow (I fell) your disposition changes and your ability to read, work or think over long periods of time dwarfs.
Lately, there are some studies are coming up, explaining that the Internet has changed the way many people read and work (and think) far beyond the common cliché of "improving your work-flow", implying not only the way you relate to knowledge and sources but also how you relate to the people around you.
And I cannot help thinking that that happened to me.
- dog_opus0
The weird thing for me is that I simply can't read fiction these days. That's how it's been for me most of this decade. I read mountains and mountains of awesome fiction when I was younger, but since then it's been a lot of cool science, politics, history, criticism, etc.
- Knuckleberry0
House of Leaves.... Read it its great.
- dog_opus0
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.
- stoplying0
Tucker Max...James Frey?
- Witt0
A classic on looming terror, darkness and madness:
http://www.amazon.com/Horla-Art-…
- Witt0
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: