A Clockwork Orange The Ware series by Rudy Rucker Heartstones by Ruth Rendell Coal by J. Jason Grant Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
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A Clockwork Orange
I haven't read it because I'm afraid I won't like it as much as I do the movie. It happened with Jeeves & Wooster. I'd seen the series before I picked up the first book, and the Jeeves described in the book was so different from Stephen Fry - who was Jeeves, in my mind, that I just couldn't enjoy the books.
It is sufficiently different to piss you off at first, but it’s a really good read.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen saga is so long that I tend to forget most of the plot of the earlier books by the time I finish.
But does that mean you'll gladly read through again? I'd rather take notes of notable events...
That's fair, I really enjoy my rereads. While I do remember the main story beats and characters across the series, there's just so much to remember! The depth of the world is easily on par with, if not surpassing, Tolkien's work.
The Martian. I’ve read it twice, and would love to read it again. It’s so good.
There’s some good (and also some inexplicable to me) books here already so I won’t mention any of them.
I’ll choose P. G. Wodehouse. Although he’s more famous for Jeeves and Wooster I much prefer his Blandings stories. Such sublime, perfection.
His writing seems so effortlessly easy but others who have attempted to emulate it have all fallen ugly, leaden, clumsy and short of his comic genius.
Kokoro.
Also have vague plans to reread Der Zauberberg
Likely also will reread V. and the Count of Monte Christo at some point.
Lockstep by Karl Schroeder Hard sci-fi about how a intergalactic empire being run without developing any faster than light technology.
The Golden Ass, I absolutely love this book
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass
Especially inside the story Tale of Cupid and Psyche
NOS4A2
The philosophical strangler by Eric Flint, absolutely.
- The Power of Now
- Batman (1989, it was well written for a movie novelisation)
Books that I have already read more than once:
The Stranger by Camus The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo The Fisherman by John Langan
The bridge trilogy.
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (book 1 of Book of the New Sun)