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I just remembered I *have* read something really good lately-ish that I haven't pushed excessively on people. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I'd tell you about it, but wouldn't do it justice. It's a YA novel that manages to be very dark, and still hopeful, in addition to really really good. I'm reading the sequel (Catching Fire) now - it isn't quite as good, but is still excellent.

Also excellent - the poem My Elf Policy, and the one in the comments it inspired.

Anyone read anything amazing lately? Because clearly my giant stack of reading material isn't big enough...

Date: 2009-11-06 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ch3cooh.livejournal.com
Thanks. Mitsfs should have it in a bit, I read the first few pages and just went over to request that the library acquire it. :)

Date: 2009-11-06 04:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notsteven.livejournal.com
The book I'm currently recommending to anyone who'll listen is Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart. It reads like a Chinese fairytale.

Date: 2009-11-08 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jibb.livejournal.com
Don't know if you've already read any of these, but China MiƩville's Bas-Lag novels (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council), of which I've read the first two and want to read the third, are good. Something of a blend of steampunk, cyberpunk, fantasy, Lovecraftian horror, and a bit of leftist politics.

Jo Walton's Farthing, something of a murder mystery/political intrigue set in an alternate-history England which negotiated a peace with Germany in the second World Wr, was also good. I've just picked up it's sequel, Ha'penny, and I'm waiting for the 3rd novel, Half a Crown, to come out in paperback, so I can have a matching set.

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