Any suggestions? Not fantasy though, just fiction like it could possibly happen in real life.
2007-06-01 01:40:44 · 9 answers · asked by Michael B 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I recommend Chuck Palahniuk, David Sedaris, or Augutus Burroughs. Here are some of the same authors below and some more. Some may not be really it could be happen but its witty and a little dark. I like that type of stuff. Its not your casual summer book that the school gives you. Enjoy reading!
chuck palahniuk is really good. He wrote fight club, monster, choke. (sadistic author, such as choke is a person who chokes in restaurant for a living and is a sex addict)
Penn Jillette - Sock ( A book about a talking sock monkey and a man who owns it)
Chris Elliot - The Shroud of the Thwacker ( Historical fiction where the comedian Chris Elliot goes back in time to solve a mystery with Chris Elliot's humor . very funny.
Michael Crichton -historical fiction wrote Congo, Timeline, A Case of need, Jarassic Park..
john grisham- Any
These two author write novels but they have a lot of comic relief and seem like its part fiction
David Sedaris is good with naked or me so pretty
Augustus Burroughs - Running with scissors or sellervision.
2007-06-01 02:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by eric w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how fast you read...
The Street Lawyer-John Grisham, The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand,Once Upon a Summer-Janette Oke, The Fisherman's Lady-George MacDonald, Vienna Prelude-Bodie Thoene, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards-Lilian Jackson Braun, The Blessing Way-Tony Hillerman, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon-Stephen King, Far from the Dream-Lance Wubbels, Joshua-Joseph Grizone, Death of a Gossip-M.C. Beaton, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him-Sharyn McCrumb, A New Kind of Christian-Brian McLaren
The Fountainhead is probably the longest.
2007-06-01 10:44:39 · answer #2 · answered by lastdazeman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I highly recommend Mario Vargas Llosa's historical fiction, "The Feast of the Goat," about a woman who returns to Dominican Republic after 30 plus years living in America to confront the ghosts of the past and her father's betrayal of her. The novel, for the most part, deals with the era of the dictatorship of Raphael Trujillo, which was a very dark and dangerous time for everyone in the Dominican Republic. Disturbing, unsettling, gripping - a very good read.
2007-06-01 09:09:54 · answer #3 · answered by drklatn8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Day of the Triffids
Web
Kraken Wakes
The Midwich Cuckoos
Chrysalis
All by the author John Wyndham.
2007-06-01 10:22:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dive From Clausen's Pier. Was wonderful about what happens when the main characters friend is paralyzed in an accident. I had a hard time putting it down.
2007-06-01 12:11:10 · answer #5 · answered by chellyk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a Michael Connelly book. His character Harry Bosch is quite the cop.
2007-06-02 01:02:55 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Instantkarma♥♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre - a little rough language but a great story. Pax - C
2007-06-01 09:23:18 · answer #7 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dean Koontz has a new book: The Good Guy. I haven't read it yet but I've read all his other books and they are great.
2007-06-01 08:44:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the mill on the floss by george eliot... its a 19th century work but trust me its amazing !
2007-06-01 11:12:15 · answer #9 · answered by in search of utopia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋