Please please please PLEASE rec me some novels

[pez]

Don't mean to pot 3 messages in a row. Sorry. 8)

I haven't read a novel for AGES. The last thing I read... I think it was Lord of the Rings. Didn't finish it because it bored me. That was a year ago I think. I miss the days when I'd carry a book around with me everywhere I go.

Please reccomend me some books. I don't really like comedy/parody or crime fiction (read too much of it in school) so not from those categories but, anything else is good (okay, maybe not Danielle Steel. You know what I mean). I like loads of different kinds of stuff so don't worry about whether or not I'll like the theme. I read anything from "To Kill a Mocking Bird" to "Interview with the Vampire" to "Kane and Abel" to "The Poisonwood Bible" to "The Little Prince".

(but if you know of a novel that's truly beautiful, poetic and filled with imageries and hidden meanings, well I die for that kind of stuff)

Even if it isn't a novel... rec anyway. <--- has just ordered Stephen King's "On Writing", remembering Scribbles talking about it a while ago.

Just give me the title and I'll look it up on Amazon or go to Borders to read a couple of pages, so no need to provide summary ^^

PLEASE REC!!!

[edit] Wah you guys read loads of "series" novels. Am going to avoid those for now coz addiction can be castatrophic XD Looks like I gotta give Neil Gaiman a go heh.

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[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

Otherland by Tad Williams.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
That Terry Pratchett guy Drae keeps talking about.
Bill Bryson is always good.
Last Chance To See by Douglas Adams.
A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones etc.) by G.R.R. Martin. (Extremely good.)

[vicky-guu-sama.livejournal.com]

a good good pageturner.
Da Vinci Code

[ex-semishade366.livejournal.com]

Erm, Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley, A Place of Greater Safery by Hilary Mantel, Battlefields and Playgrounds by Janos Nyiri, anything by Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy Dunnett, David Leavitt or Jess Mowry...

[ex-semishade366.livejournal.com]

Safety not Safery. Have forgotten how to type...

[factorielle.livejournal.com]

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. VEry little else I can think of right now. <_<

[soloproject.livejournal.com]

The Da Vince Code, Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons, Deception Point - Dan Brown
A Painted House, Bleachers - John Grisham (yeah the lawyer writer...those are his two none law themed books :P)
Sky is Falling - Sydney Sheldon
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Belinda - Anne Rice (I think, written under the name Anne Rampling)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tamarind Mau - Anita Rau
[you have to forgive me, I'm a lit major who enjoys rambling]
Anything by Pearl S. Buck and Amy Tan...Tamora Pierce!
Nightworld series!
Blind - Jose Saramago

[mildlyinsane.livejournal.com]

book!recs! ^_____^

*spreads the patricia mckillip love* much gorgeousness. i really liked her winter rose. also her cygnet series.

and of course, mckinley. she wrote two versions of beauty and beast. both very good.

*scampers off after the spammage*

[lina-lau.livejournal.com]

Anything by Dan Brown, because, like, woah, he's amazing. [The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress...]

And Nick Hornby? He's pretty good. I liked About a Boy. My mind is at a blank as to anything else right now though :x

a little late...

[farohji.livejournal.com]

well normally i recommend Douglas Adams, but his things tend to be quite silly at points. anything Micheal Circhton is usually good. Philp Pullman, some of Orson Scott Card's stuff. if you like creepy stuff Dean Koontz seenms preatty good, i'm in the middle of on of his books now. Neil Gaiman, like everyone else said XD; Terry Prachet was pretty good as well. if you don't mind putting up with some of Tolkien's over descriptiveness, i actually liked The Hobbit quite a bit, more then Lord of the Rings at any rate. though my mind's blanking on the authour, 1984 and Animal Farm are pretty decent and tend to come up in debates alot.

[sixth-moon.livejournal.com]

oo Hi there, I just sort of randomly stumbled upon your LJ and was looking at your icons...I'm wondering if I could use one of them, the one with Tezuka and Fuji on the phone [beacuse it's absolutely brilliant ^^]. Of course I'll give you credit in keywords. So if you don't mind, please let me know. Thanks. [^^ it's ok even if you decline.]

[ex-tremble707.livejournal.com]

Black Jewel Trilogy By Anne Bishop, baby.
Lost souls by Poppy Z. Brite

And, um, I can't think of anything else :x