Young Writers Society

I need some new books to read but I don't know what. This is some of the recent ones I have read.

Empress Orchid
The lovely bones
The colour purple
1984

Please nothing to fantasy or that involves vampires. Thanks

Read Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. Kind of dark, but funny and moving at the same time.

Also 'House of Leaves' - Can't recommend this enough. Look it up and see if it interests you.

White Noise by Don Delillo is good.

If you like sci - fi Philip K Dick is amazing.

Have you read The Wasp Factory? Again pretty dark but getting to the end is seriously worth it.

David Foster Wallace - Girl With Curious Hair or Infinite Jest. If you're a keen writer this guy is extremely inspiring. All his characters have real depth and are completely different while being believable.

The Tesseract by Alex Garland. Have you read The Beach? If not read that then read this. This guy is incredible at description.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Beautiful.

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. This man is the master of the simile.

If you like the look of those i can suggest loads more in the same vein. If not i won't.

Thank you.

I shall not be looking up Chandler. I was not a big fan of the big sleep to be honest, put some of the others look interesting. Thanks again
~Retro Disco666

I was going to post something until I read that you didn't like fantasy ... then I was like, *oh*. (Gah, modern language. We just can't help using 'like'.)
Sorry about this. Umm ...
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I'll try to get back to you.