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sirchrissypoo
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So, thanks to a very generous Santa in the Games and Technology Secret Santa, I got an Amazon Kindle.
Now, I need books to put on the thing. I grabbed a ton of free books from Amazon and from sites like Project Gutenberg, but I need more.
My favorite series is the Discworld novels. I love the mix of comedy and fantasy.
Other books I really enjoy:
American Gods
Flowers for Algernon
A Clockwork Orange
Any kinds of books that make you laugh or really make you think, those are the kinds I can enjoy. Also, any really good Sci-Fi books would be great, as I'm not very well read in the Sci-Fi genre (making it up by purchasing Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide and also getting Dune).
Now, I need books to put on the thing. I grabbed a ton of free books from Amazon and from sites like Project Gutenberg, but I need more.
My favorite series is the Discworld novels. I love the mix of comedy and fantasy.
Other books I really enjoy:
American Gods
Flowers for Algernon
A Clockwork Orange
Any kinds of books that make you laugh or really make you think, those are the kinds I can enjoy. Also, any really good Sci-Fi books would be great, as I'm not very well read in the Sci-Fi genre (making it up by purchasing Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide and also getting Dune).
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In any case, the three books you mentioned are three books I really liked so I'll just paste my list of favorite books ever. About 50% are sci-fi. They're listed vaguely in order of how much I liked them. I'd say about 1/3rd to a 1/4th of them are directly hilarious or at least pretty funny. All of them will make you think. Most will also make you feel, so that's nice.
Catch-22, The Devil's Dictionary, Moby-Dick, All the King's Men, Invisible Man, Neuromancer, The Sun Also Rises, Julius Caesar, Snow Crash, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lolita, On the Road, The Brothers Karamazov, A Confederacy of Dunces, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Name of the Wind, Brave New World, The Great Shark Hunt, Watchmen, Transmetropolitan, Cat's Cradle, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Closing Time, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Elements of Style, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Spook Country, Treasure Island, Consider Phlebas, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Diamond Age, Love in the Time of Cholera, Pattern Recognition, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Gun, with Occasional Music, Cryptonomicon, Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Gardens of the Moon, The Demon-Haunted World, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Everything Is Illuminated, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Mote in God's Eye, Absurdistan, Going Postal, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Anansi Boys
TychoCelchuuu, no Clockwork Orange and Flowers for Algernon didn't make me laugh. I was putting them in the "make you think" category. Actually, Flowers for Algernon should be in a "made me cry" category. One of the saddest books I've ever read.
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jakob went through a load of old threads and put together a list of recommendations based off what people said they liked. Might be of some use.
I second this. I have only read the first two so far, but they are quite good.
Thanks for pointing me to this. Gonna go through this and see what I find.
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I don't know what you're talking about, Ceres. The later Dune novels that Frank Herbert wrote were hilarious. If he were alive today, I could totally see him living in abject squalor writing fanfic with titles like "Transformers: The Invasion of the Eroticons".
That being said, I do have some sci-fi/fantasy recommendations for the OP because I've read quite a bit of it over the years.
-The Enemy Papers by Barry Longyear, which I recommend every single time someone wants to read sci-fi
-Illium by Dan Simmons. Anything by him is pretty cool, actually. He writes good novels.
-The various Recluce Saga books by L.E. Modesitt are oddly addictive at first but you'll probably get tired of them pretty quickly.
-Piers Anthony's Xanth novels are kinda similar to Discworld in that they're comedic fantasy. There's not much depth to them but the density of the puns is impressive/awful. Also: pervy old man syndrome is in effect for Piers and has been for a number of [strike]years[/strike] decades.