Help!

[listersgirl]

Okay, you smart and lovely people, I need assistance.

I'm a little bored with my books lately. I'm having a hard time getting into anything I have out from the library, I've read a couple of bad/unexciting things recently, I have nothing coming in from my holds any time soon. In short, I'm in a reading rut.

So, tell me: What is your favourite book? Who is your favourite author? What book do you think everyone around you should read? What is the book that changed your life? What is comfort reading for you? What book can always make you laugh? What have you read recently that got you excited? What book, when you find someone else who loves it, makes you need to be that person's best friend forever? What author do you wish was your best friend?

Give me something, anything, that I need to read. Fiction, non-fiction, genre, new, old, I don't care. Well, I might care a little if it's a western, but I'm willing to have my mind changed. I am your willing reader.

Comments

[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

I really liked Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff, and am in the midst of finishing his other book, Sewer, Gas, and Electric.

My comfort books are mainly by Tamora Pierce, which you'd know if you recognised my handle. ;)

Someone else recommended Zelazny, but didn't specifically say Lord of Light, which is one of my favourites and completely worthwhile.

I also recommend Joel Rosenberg's stuff: D'Shai and Hour of the Octopus, especially. Also good is The Keepers of the Hidden Ways series: The Fire Duke, The Silver Stone, and The Crimson Sky.

Yes, I *do* read serious literature. I just don't like any of it. I'm so sad.

[listersgirl]

I like Matt Ruff very much. His newest, Set This House in Order, was excellent too, although I think Sewer, Gas, Electric is my favourite.

I've never tried any of the other authors, though, so thanks!