[CosmicJalapeno]

Recommend*

My uncle gave me a hundred bucks to spend on books. I've spent around sixty on the ones I've had an eye on for a while now, but I'm not entirely sure what to spend the last forty on. I like most genres so long as the prose and other elements of the story are not half-assed.

I was originally going to put this in the book forum, but I want answers from an INTP perspective.

NO YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE!

 

[QuietStorm]

Well.... if you're interested there's this unpublished novel .... Lol. Just kidding. You specific genres do you like, because "Young Adult" is more vague than you can imagine.

 

[Just_Some_Guy]

Philip K. Dick

 

[CosmicJalapeno]

Well.... if you're interested there's this unpublished novel .... Lol. Just kidding. You specific genres do you like, because "Young Adult" is more vague than you can imagine.

I would say speculative fiction, magic realism, cyberpunk, metamodernist, and surrealism are the type of works I read the most.

Philip K. Dick

Good recommendation, but I've read enough of that lunatics work to satisfy me for now.

 

[rakstamgalds]

Viktor Pelevin

 

[this is my username]

Starfish by Peter Watts. I think I liked that book a little too much...

 

[anarchitektur]

Snow Crash, Diamond Age, and/or Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

 

[CosmicJalapeno]

Viktor Pelevin

I think I might buy Buddhas Little Finger, sounds interesting.

Starfish by Peter Watts. I think I liked that book a little too much...

The premise sounds good, the only thing holding me back is, besides the bad ass last line, I didn't particularly like his short story The Things. I guess I shouldn't let one short ruin an author for me though.

Snow Crash, Diamond Age, and/or Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Fucking thank ye. I always remember that I want to read Snow Crash when I don't have money. Deff gunna buy.

 

[pie]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré.

 

[Marimeli]

Umberto Eco, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar for starters.

 

[this is my username]

The premise sounds good, the only thing holding me back is, besides the bad ass last line, I didn't particularly like his short story The Things. I guess I shouldn't let one short ruin an author for me though.

I haven't read any of his short stories. He seems to do pretty well in long form, though. Thanks for the tip.

 

[CosmicJalapeno]

I haven't read any of his short stories. He seems to do pretty well in long form, though. Thanks for the tip.

You can read the whole short via the link if you want. It's from the perspective of the alien from the film The Thing. I like some of the ideas explored in the story, but for some reason it just didn't click with me brain in terms of enjoyment.

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction and Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts

 

[Rift]

Samuel Delaney, Thomas Disch (334), Suzy McKee Charnas, Joanna Russ, John Varley
against a diamond sky

Biology in Science Fiction

(ugh... hells, if I know.)

 

[CosmicJalapeno]

Umberto Eco, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar for starters.

Love in the Time of Cholera sounds good, I might buy that.

 

[nadjasix]

Samuel Delaney, Thomas Disch (334), Suzy McKee Charnas, Joanna Russ, John Varley
against a diamond sky

Biology in Science Fiction

(ugh... hells, if I know.)

You are the only other person I've ever seen mention Sam Delaney, ever.

You may like Octavia Butler, if you don't already.

 

[KneeSeekerArrow]

The New Testament

 

[CosmicJalapeno]

The New Testament

I'm currently up to book 1 Samuel in the bible the Jehovah witnesses gave me.

I give it a 4/10 in regards to enjoyment so far.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm currently on a non-fiction kick, but the last fiction book I read was The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw.

 

[Snakecharmer]

I don't read much fiction, but I do like Douglas Adams and Brian Lumley.

 

[Marimeli]

Love in the Time of Cholera sounds good, I might buy that.

Oh, it is. And might I also recommend "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"? It's sort of an investigation of a murder but undertaken like 40 years after the fact, and it's very complex and intriguing.