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.

Comments

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.