Can thread get back on topic please? I want to read about books I’ve never heard of, not Catcher in the Rye again. :[

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I’m kind of a fantasy nerd (boo yeah elves) so I when I was younger I used to lurk the fantasy section of the bookstore in town. Everytime I would see this book and never touch it. So one day I did and I was pleasantly surprised.

Dragons of the Cuyahoga is a ‘modern fantasy’ meaning it’s a fantasy novel that takes place in the modern world. It’s a one shot, which is a rarity in the fantasy land and one of the reason why I probably enjoyed it as much as I did.

Basicly rundown of the plot is that one day a magical portal opened up over Cleveland and magical refuges started pouring out. If they leave the ‘magic zone’ created by the portal they fizzle up and die or some **** cause they can’t really survive in our reality. So the end result is that they’ve kind of taken over the city and what not. The main charactor is a reporter and he’s bumigned to the mysterious death of a dragon. It just kinda mysteriously fell from the sky when it shouldn’t have. The charactor is all like ‘**** yeah, a mystery’ and he uncovers many exciting things.

Nothing particularly ground breaking about it but it was a pleasant light read.

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I don´t know how trendy this is, but the Hyperion series is one of the best sci-fi stories around. It won a lot of the industries awards all through 1990. Anybody who hasn´t read it, should.

Lee_Harvey_Oswald Posted:

Okay I will go with this one:

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I would recommend you read it but you’re all lame and probably wont read it anyways so whatever.

It’s about a Norwegian writer wandering the streets of Oslo and the things and experiences he faces while slowly starving to the point of insanity. Deals with moral dilemmas and even though it was written in 1890 it has no faces, identity’s or dates and can easily be related to in modern times.

This is the first truly “modern” novel, mark my words.

Depends on how trendy this book is.

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Could be, because it was written by the same guy who wrote Fight Club, which is a pretty trendy movie. Came across this book before I knew that fact, however.

Otherwise I don’t know what to put here, because the only other book I genuinely like on the same level is 1984.

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I remember reading cruddy , a while back , was am interesting read. I liked the Hyperion Series , I enjoyed how the first book was set up , with each pilgrims story, kinda reminded me of The Canterbury Tales , and the rest of the series fulled my inner hatred for organized religion.

I guess my favorite, would be

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It is kinda like Aesop’s Fables with robots, almost….But written in Poland in the mid 1960’s

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Grew up with this.

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It’s incredibly trashy and not that well written. But it’s also hilarious and great fun if you like overwrought conspiracies. It’s the literary equivalent of cheap acid.

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a boy is stranded on a lifeboat for 233 days with nothing for company but a tiger, a zebra, a hyena and an orangutan.

Sounds kind of like flamebate from my perspective.

Even though it’s probably pretty trendy, if you haven’t, you should all check out a book called Sophie’s World. It’s very philosophical and was one of those books you couldn’t put down. Just a thought. Log in to see images! megazeroexe edited this message on 03/26/2010 9:32AM

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Read this a while ago after a similar thread in a completely different forum. It’s not that mindblowing as it might have been over 100 years ago, when it was first published, but still interesting. Don’t let the educational background scae you away.

I’m not even going to point out how trendy the book above this is.

But still, great book. Even better that I’ve been to almost all of the places from his florida stories.