Good book recommendations?

I read The Girl With All the Gifts and I really liked the atmosphere it had at the beginning
It was dark but hopeful and made you wonder about Melanie who was a great character.
After a while it lost that mood though and rest of the book had a different vibe to it.
If anyone could recommend something with a similar feeling to how that book was at the start I'd really appreciate it.
And I read through Mort as well which was fantastic,
Prachett has a great sense of humor

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it was very fun seeing granny's potion and young Rincewind and Albert
I thought Albert might be the wizard whose staff now belongs to Esk but there was no hint about that.
It was seeing Mort grow if only a little and great to see Death doing all those things to see what humans liked about them.

As curious as I am about Death I'm really looking forward to Sourcery which has Rincewind as the main character.

 

Interestingly I've given up on reading a confederancy of dunces I didn't find it funny but I have been reading a bit of Cormac Mcarthy myself "Blood Meridian".

I have to be honest though that isn't really gripping me either. I did consider "The road" beforehand but from what I read it's a pretty depressing book although I guess that's kind of the point.

 

Started re-reading LOTR again. It had been a few years since I last read it. Just finished FOTR, and I had forgotten how good and intricate it was. Good stuff.

Also been meaning to read The Road and Don Quixote. Probably tackle those sometime in the near future.

 

Yes, the Hobbit is a much lighter read, I've read it more times than LOTR. Love it, and needless to say, I was really disappointed by the films.

 

Speaking of LOTR and the hobbit, now that I've been reading LOTR again I have a craving for more good fantasy. Aside from Martin's ASOIAF, what are some good fantasy series?

 

I really liked Robin Hobbs Farseer series first book is Assassins Apprentice (I actually went on to read all her followup books which took a long time but I honestly liked them all). The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfus isn't bad either but there is still one book to come.

I'm actually considering giving the Shannara Chronicles a read next because the new show has made me curious about it.

 

Cool, I'll check out the Farseer series, I've also heard of the Kingkiller chronicles as well, so that's on my list, too.

And yeah, the new show definitely piqued my interest in Shannara, too.

 

+1 for the Farseer Trilogy; love those books.

And thanks to whoever recommended Wool; I went into it not knowing much about the story and was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

I'd like to recommend H. F. Saint's Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Forget about the rubbish movie adaptation and read this book; it's intelligent, funny and compelling. Kinda sad that Saint never wrote anything else.

 

It's not Game of Thrones production wise and it does have a Twilight kinda vibe to it and some dodgy acting but I thought it was ok, You can watch the ep1-2 here if you are in America I personally used a VPN, I believe theres actually 4 eps out now but I think you need a comcast subscription or something to see the next two at the minute.

 

Aside from the 'chronicles of amber' I believe I mentioned earlier in this thread already, my other fantasy fav is Fritz Leiber's 'Swords' (or 'Lankhmar') series. It's a series of shorter and longer stories about two rogues and their (misfortunate) adventures. Epic sword & sorcery goodness.

 

If you mean the Cormac McCarthy book I highly recommend it. Depressing ending though.

 

Yeah, I'm definitely reading it next. Found it at half price books for a couple bucks

 

Great book recommendations, thanks.

 

Currently reading Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe. So good.

 

My current read is "The Great Zoo of China"

Complete shameless Jurassic park clone except instead of Dino's it's dragons, that's not to say it's all bad there are a few interesting ideas in there and it's entertaining enough for action.