List as many or as few as you like!

  • EntropicalVacation@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Lord of the Rings just about saved my life in high school. Possession by A.S. Byatt. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, though I’ve yet to read the sequels. Atonement by Ian McEwan. Just about anything by Geoff Ryman, Ali Smith, José Saramago, or Sheri Holman.

    • aquaarmor23@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Your taste seems like exactly the sort of thing I’d enjoy, do you have any specific suggestions for someone who absolutely loves Eco’s metafictional novels in particular and metafiction in general? (Aside from Possession, which I’ve never heard of but is going directly on my to-read list)

      • EntropicalVacation@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I recently read How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, which I really liked. It is science fictional, though, but maybe not…maybe more surreal. Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, David Markson. I started Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić many years ago, got interrupted, and haven’t got back to it, but I definitely need to because it was so intriguing in form.

  • LeifJ@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    A chain of voices - Andre Brink

    Cosmos - Carl Sagan

    The name of the rose - Umberto Eco (so much better than the movie)

    A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

    I used to read a lot when I was younger. Now I’m down to max two books per year. I miss it.