Rate The Dude's Fiction Bookshelf (+diablo and others too!)

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OP-- your collection seems pretty fun to me. I've read most of those.

You'd prolly like Robert Jordan's series.

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You'd prolly like Robert Jordan's series.

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seriously, don't bother.

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Can anyone compare it to something else, or have anything else to convince me it's worth the read?

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It's worth reading just to marvel at how Chabon's characters emerge and evolve through interaction. Most writers manufacture their characters piece by piece, carefully explaining personality traits, histories, beliefs, etc. They forget we readers don't want this dissected character any more than we want the IQ score and personality profile of a new acquaintance.

We want to know a person by working with him, talking to him, maybe even kissing him. (OMG TEH GAY!?) We want to make up our mind about him by watching him make up his mind about us, our mother, and that frustrating new boss. That's life, and that's great literature.

And Chabon is sickeningly good at it. READ THIS F'ING BOOK.

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nice work, you have convinced me. i just added it to my amazon cart, gonna add a couple more from my wish list and order.

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Dude,

The Bourne Identity is excellent. If you don't like that, you won't like other Ludlum. If you do, read the other Bourne books and then I'll give you other suggestions.

For Frederick Forsyth start with The Day of the Jackal. If you like that I'll recommend more.

John Le Carre's books are not quite as fast paced as those two, but arguably are better written. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Little Drummer Girl are two good ones to check out.

Ken Follett has a number of thrillers that are really good, maybe start with Eye of the Needle. My favorite book by him is actually an epic work of historical fiction set in the middle ages, Pillars of the Earth.

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These are all perfectly fine for airplanes, but why not read good literature when you have the time?

Vladimir Nabokov
Joseph Heller
Phil Roth
John Updike
Martin Amis
John O'Hara
Iain M. Banks [has written SF as well.]
John Cheever
Joyce Carol Oates
Jane Smiley
D.F. Wallace
W. Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald

or get some Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in there.