[Oliver_W]

I'd go with Stephen King stuff too, though recommending it seems a bit ... basic? It's like, well duh, of course Stephen King

I like his prose, I can get lost in his words even when he's yakking on about nothing, like in vast swathes of IT.

His recent one, The Institute, was good. A bit like XMen: New Mutants in a kinda but not really way.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I'd go with Stephen King stuff too, though recommending it seems a bit ... basic? It's like, well duh, of course Stephen King

And yes but we're talking as a step up from Harry Potter... so...

Meh I'll recommend a few of the tougher ones anyway;



Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

For some high jinx in existentialism


Journey to Ixtlan - Carlos Castaneda

All of the fun of hallucinogenics with none of the risk.


Lanark - Alasdair Gray

Ever wanted to do all of the drugs? All of the drugs all at the same time? Ever wanted to deliberately give yourself an ocular migraine? Ever wanted to read about people slowly morphing into scaley dragons in an ambiguous afterlife whilst being birthed out of a giant mouth-vagina? This is the book for you!

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Nausea[/B] - Jean-Paul Sartre

For some high jinx in existentialism

I have a grudge against him, I spent ages waiting for Superman to show up and save the day in Zarathustra but he never did

[Daniel.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Lanark - Alasdair Gray

Ever wanted to do all of the drugs? All of the drugs all at the same time? Ever wanted to deliberately give yourself an ocular migraine? Ever wanted to read about people slowly morphing into scaley dragons in an ambiguous afterlife whilst being birthed out of a giant mouth-vagina? This is the book for you!

This seems interesting, is it entertaining or just confusing?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Daniel.

This seems interesting, is it entertaining or just confusing?

It's both in all honesty. It's divided into 4 parts parts 1 and 4 are surreal as **** (set in some sort of twisted afterlife) and parts 2 and 3 (in the protagonist's actual life) read like a normal book. It's bizarre but it's stuck with me for decades.

[bots]

Terry Brooks - the Shannara series

Frank Herbert - Dune series

[Ammi]

...I’m not generally a reader of horror/fantasy but I did always enjoy Peter Benchley novels...obviously Jaws is the most well known one ...I think that Ben did a thread on the Dark Towers books as well at one time...I know that my son read those and loved them...

[Ammi]

...oh I read The Woman in Black as well and that was really scary...