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[Sweeney]

looking for alaska by John Green was also a great read.

All his books are good
Every single novel he's written was in NPR's top 25(ish) YA books ever.

[Syntax]

Skimmed the rest of the thread, but you should read the Book Thief, if you haven't yet. It's excellent. It's written from the POV of Death, who makes an interesting narrator.

EDIT: Also yeah, John Green = best author ever. Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska are his better ones though.

Edited by Irrana, 05 September 2012 - 07:21 AM.

[Melchoire]

All his books are good
Every single novel he's written was in NPR's top 25(ish) YA books ever.

I read the premise for his other novels after I finished alaska, and they seemed too "young-adult" for my liking =P

[Josh]

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Actually, any of his books are quite entertaining. A lot of humor and sarcasm, and he can get quite technical (both scientifically and historically). Snow Crash is sci-fi/cyber punk themed, and by far my favorite by him.

[Sweeney]

I read the premise for his other novels after I finished alaska, and they seemed too "young-adult" for my liking =P

I think An Abundance of Katherines is the only one that's really YA. Paper Towns is very focused on the deconstruction of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stereotype, for example, and The Fault in Our Stars deals with far more complex themes than a typical YA romance.

[redlion]

Skimmed the rest of the thread, but you should read the Book Thief, if you haven't yet. It's excellent. It's written from the POV of Death, who makes an interesting narrator.

Speaking of Death's POV, you've reminded me of Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse, which is sort of a fantasy of killing death and then taking up the "office" as it were. Imagine becoming death.

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Actually, any of his books are quite entertaining. A lot of humor and sarcasm, and he can get quite technical (both scientifically and historically). Snow Crash is sci-fi/cyber punk themed, and by far my favorite by him.

I loved Cryptonomicon. I'll have to check out Snow Crash if it's cyber punk. I love how technical he got in Cryptonomicon! I have to get another copy, but I think his depictions of Reimann zeta functions were mostly accurate.

[redlion]

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