I go through phases, but can't get enough of Haruki Marakami lately. Kafka on the shore was an incredible read, I highly recommend it.
Very true.
I'm reading another of Murakami's books now, "After Dark". One sitting and I'm half way through. He's so easy to read.
I've not been that active as a reader, so I don't have that many to choose from. But, I just finished two books by Kazuo Ishiguro: "Never Let Me Go" and "When We Were Orphans". Both are amazing, not what I expected, and have me still thinking of them, and both got me to thinking about writing a little differently.
Recently i have fallen in love with two: Stieg Larrson who wrote the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, and Alice Sebold who wrote These Lovely Bones and Lucky.
Nicholas Sparks does it for me everytime!
Jim Butcher, Robin Hobb, Jack McDevitt, George R.R. Martin, C.J. Cherryh: They always deliver the goods for me.
Right now, I'm addicted to the Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard and the show that's based on the books. I know it's written for teens, but there's something about all of the mystery and intrigue into the mind of a person that's torturing the main girls from the grave that's exciting.
While I read a lot, the last novel to turn my crank was Jonathan Frazen's, Freedom. Highly recommended. Series-wise, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series always improves my mood.
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Neil Gaiman ooooooooooooh awesomeness. Anyone read American Gods?
I am reading HOW TO FORGET by Marius Brill and I love it. he is very clever. try it
Love colours our worlds in endless dimensions and unifies all aspects of our activities. Just as sunlight filters through clouds and causes the grasses to turn gold so everything is interlinked in our world.
I love the Eve Dallas series by J.D. Robb
We don't know how much we don't know.
My favorite is Edgar Allan Poe.
I'm loving Jasper Fforde...I'm on book 5 in his Thursday series and have just began a new one in a spin off of it. He's extremely funny.
Po Bronson - What Should I Do With My Life?
Right now I'm reading Nurture Shock which he co-wrote with Ashley Merryman
At the moment for me it would have to be Cormac McCarthy. The Road and Old country where great books. But i love his older novels, and more so than anything i love his discription for the landscape which he surrounds himself and characters with. Reading the Boarder Trilogy at the moment and wow.
Also abit of an obvious one, Stephen King i mean, how can you not love his works, old and new.
John D. MacDonald.. I grew up on the Travis McGee series..
George R. R. Martin. I finally got around to reading the Game of Thrones books. Well, the first two anyway. The rest will just have to wait until after exams.
MMMMM.... at the moment.... Bret Burquest... He rocks! Everyone should read his novel Dogman of Topanga and his collection of articles and blogs called Orb of Wounded Souls.