I like to read books, here are my thoughts about them.
- John Scalzi is thankfully prolific. If you haven't read anything by him, Redshirts is a meta exploration of Star-Trek-like shows. If you liked Galaxy Quest, you'll love it.
- John Dies at the End and its sequel are sort-of horror stories about two idiots who save the world. There's a solid page of chair puns while they kill demons. There are a lot of dick jokes directed at hell-beasts.
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World War Z
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Ready Player One
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos Book 1) - The Canterbury Tales, with sci fi, and heartbreak, and also an 8 foot tall nightmare monster who might be God
- A Night of Blacker Darkness is set a story about idiot vampires (!), John Keats (!!), Mary Shelley (!!!), and con men in the 1800s. I've read it at least three times and laugh out loud at least once each time, which never happens.
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Lies of Locke Lamora!
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"Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" is Harry Potter for grown-ups. If you like the idea of magicians in Victorian society, with an incredible world built around it, buy this book.
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China Mieville writes excellent fantasy. I recommend Perdido Street Station to start. China is fantastic at worldbuilding, and the ending will absolutely crush you.
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The Johannes Cabal Series
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Neil Gaiman
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Magical Neon Sexuality, which is like...fanfic about celebrities? But not about sex? And Justin Bieber is a centaur? I don't know, but I liked it.
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Tuf Voyaging, by George R.R. Martin. It's about a laconic cat-lover with a superweapon who just wants to do good.
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Felix Castor series - supernatural hard-boiled detective
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Name of the Wind
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Soulless is the first book of a trashy steampunk series. It's about a lady with no soul in the 1800s who falls in love with a werewolf. Great beach reading.
- The Diviners
- Anything by Gillian Flynn (she wrote Gone Girl) - I liked Sharp Objects and Dark Places
- Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
- I Know I Am but What Are You? by Samantha Bee (literally laugh-out-loud hilarious)
- Bad Monkey
- I really like David Foster Wallace, footnotes and all. I recommend A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, specifically his account of being pampered on a luxury Caribbean cruise, in which he fears assassination from a toilet.
- The Disaster Artist is a fantastic and fantastically funny story about how the movie The Room got made, by Greg Sestero, who co-starred in the film. If you like The Room, get this book.