(Part 2) Best contemporary literature & fiction books according to redditors

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Top Reddit comments about Contemporary Literature & Fiction:

u/quaste · 20 pointsr/de
u/notquiteright2 · 17 pointsr/sonicshowerthoughts

Klingon was developed as a language, there's even a book and classes on it.

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Conversational-Marc-Okrand/dp/0671797395

u/lobster_johnson · 16 pointsr/scifi

This is the book, if anyone's interested: Wasp by Eric Frank Russell. It's a brilliant and darkly humorous novel. Let's just hope terrorists never read it, because it's basically a handbook in how to fight an asymmetric war. If you ignore minor technical details like the punch card thing, it has aged very well indeed.

u/beardedrugby · 13 pointsr/funny

The main character of the novel is apparently one Craig Johnson. Note the 5-star review by Craig Johnson. Really? I mean, if you're going to make up an account to give yourself positive reviews, you probably shouldn't use the same name as the main character of the novel you're reviewing.

u/Bhazor · 10 pointsr/TumblrInAction

I just... I can't... what?

> If Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series had been written by a woman, she’d have been burned at the stake as a man-hating witch. And so it goes.

Well that triggered me. Has this woman not read female written crime fiction? It's frickin wall to wall rape and brutality against women. Often told in bizarrely indulgent and damn near fetishistic detail. I read Out by Natsuo Kirino recently where the climax featured a naked middle aged woman strapped to metal railings freezing to death and her longing to be raped again purely to "Feel the warmth of his iron hard rod inside her.". The murderer/raperer in question earlier spends a full chapter reminiscing about the woman who he raped in her knife wound as she bled to death and how totally rad it was.

That got fucking rave reviews and the author is one of the best selling crime authors in Japan.

u/Riovanes · 10 pointsr/philosophy

Anyone who is interested in this must immediately read Blindsight by Peter Watts. Good science fiction novel which, among many other themes, deals with the idea of the Chinese Room and what it means for human consciousness.

u/Lucretius · 8 pointsr/printSF

I don't exactly recommend it, but there's Out of the Dark, by Weber,. It's a bit derivative of other works, but it has a twist ending that I'll admit I did not see coming as it is so out of character for what I've come to expect from Weber. If you don't want to read the whole novel, apparently there is a short story version of this one.

I DO recommend The Human Edge, by Gordon R. Dickson, which is an anthology about conflicts between humans and aliens... not so much about aliens attacking the planet per se, but about how humans have powers that, while banal and seemingly weak from our perspective, are terrifying to the aliens... In one story, the human power that makes them devastating to the point of warranting extermination is Morality... in an other it's Denial. :-D

Wasp, by Eric Frank Russell, is a short but excellent read detailing a human surgically altered to pass as alien as he infiltrates an alien planet to sow chaos in advance of a human invasion. The Aliens are not very well... ALIEN... but this little novel is an excellent primer on infiltration, espionage, and asymmetric warfare techniques.

Finally, the short story Superiority, by Arthur C. Clarke,, while not about aliens, the two warring parties are both human, is a must-read for military science fiction fans.

u/LovingSweetCattleAss · 8 pointsr/WTF

One of the most popular children's books in germany ATM is 'The Mole who Wanted to Know Who Shat on his Head' (rough translation) - about a mole who got shat on the head by some animal and is comparing that shit to the shit of all the other animals he comes across.

And when he finds the animal he shits on its head in return.

Here it is Sorry: German

EDIT: Bigger image

u/artman · 7 pointsr/printSF

Just started CS Friedman's This Alien Shore. Female protagonist on the run, from what she doesn't know yet. Set within a far future universe and also entails an exotic computer virus let loose within the systems of the net... as usual very dense in plot and I am getting drawn in so far. Only other novel of her's I have read was In Conquest Born and that was a very good psi-fi/space opera.

u/munkeyman567 · 5 pointsr/books

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis.

May not be the most bizarre but it's definitely weird in that Warren Ellis-y way.

u/bammbamm85 · 5 pointsr/compsci

How about 'The Blue Nowhere'? Personally I couldn't put it down once I started.

u/its-the-new-style · 5 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

In the book - The Secret House - http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-House-Extraordinary-Ordinary/dp/0425188426 - it says that shaving foam causes the follicles to go erect and thus when they go flaccid that gives you a smoother shave.

u/inkedexistence · 5 pointsr/books

Blindsight by Peter Watts. Easily one of the best scifi stories written in years. Hugo, Locus, and Campbell nominee.

Its available for free online too. Link

u/ANSICL · 4 pointsr/scifi

True. Many of those books are written by scientists. One of those recent what if's , and good at that is Blindsight by Peter Watts (marine biologist). Adding vampires into the story in hard SF way with nice biological reasoning behind it is just start :) One of my favorite first contact stories ever.

u/well_uh_yeah · 4 pointsr/books

This is interesting to me. I use the library a lot and would generally prefer to purchase an e-book over a physical book if I have to make the choice; I try to avoid cluttering my place with loads of one and done books.

On the other hand, this seems like a book that many people will want to take a crack at reading--good or bad. I guess for the price difference, $20.94 - $19.99 = $0.95, I guess I'll just get the physical book. I derive some pleasure from sharing books with other people, so I guess that would make up the price difference.

More interesting though, is, you know, why that price point? That's really high. I'm sure she got an enormous advance and all, but yikes.

u/jello_aka_aron · 4 pointsr/scifi

Gregory Benford might be to your liking, Eater hits a lot of those old hard SF buttons in particular. The Hyperion Cantos may also do the trick. C.S. Friedman's In Conquest Born and This Alien Shore are favorites that have that classic sci-fi feeling.

I would also give Stephenson another shot.. it's really good stuff, but yeah Snow Crash is a little over-the-top (very much so for the first chapter or two, but it does settle down a good bit). I mean, the main character is named Hiro Protagonist... there's obviously going to be a certain level of tongue-in-cheek, self-aware ridiculousness going on, but it's quite amazing how well he foresaw much of the modern computing world. Cryptonomicon is awesome and is one of those rare books that somehow feels like science fiction even though there's nothing out of the ordinary in it. Anathem and Zodiac are also quite good and more traditional in tone and style.

u/ramindk · 4 pointsr/printSF

I'll got a list I think is reasonably obscure.

Coils by Fred Saberhagen.

Tactics of Mistake by George R Dickson. Interstellar politics and the warrior of the future. A little bit stiff at times.

Wasp by Eric Frank Russel. The original one man against the planet story. This is probably the most well know on the list.

Fires of Paratime by LE Modesitt Jr. Time travel society done well with a bit of Norse mythology thrown in.

All of an Instant by Richard Garfinkle. Time travel done oddly. And well.

Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel. Stross before Stross. Unfortunately the last book of the trilogy was never published.

Wyrm by Mark Fabi. One of the better books on computer virus and early internet shenanigans.

u/amyosaurus · 4 pointsr/harrypotter

If you want a hardback one, I'd go for this one. It has the new signature edition covers, which I like.

If you don't mind a paperback set, this one is really nice. It has the UK adult covers, which I think are gorgeous, in a very pretty box. You can get a hardback version, but the box isn't nearly as good.

u/Al_Batross · 3 pointsr/printSF

David Marusek's Counting Heads.

Mindbendingly brilliant post-human SF, hugely critically acclaimed (Locus called it "one of the best SF novels of the decade"), criminally under-read.

u/last_useful_man · 3 pointsr/technology

'Counting Heads' uses such a society as a backdrop. The free people in it barely get by, for what that's worth. They band together in little corporations and share their micropayments for doing trivial little things. Customized clones get the middle class life we have now.

u/erynthenerd · 3 pointsr/WTF

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis featured scrotal saline injection parties.

u/null0x · 3 pointsr/CoreCyberpunk

I couldn't help but think of K.W. Jeter's Noir

u/coolprogressive · 3 pointsr/Futurology

Counting Heads - David Marusek

The Void Trilogy - Peter F. Hamilton



u/brwise42 · 3 pointsr/printSF

Spin State - Chris Moriarty

http://www.amazon.com/Spin-State-Chris-Moriarty/dp/0553586246/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335821967&sr=8-1


Sequel is good too, but not the same location if I remember right.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/kindle

sigh. No mention of what the book is, the image cropped to hide anything about the book, and no link?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Casual-Vacancy-J-K-Rowling/dp/0316228532

u/1337_Mrs_Roberts · 3 pointsr/scifi

C.S.Friedman's [In Conquest Born] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0756400430). The societies (one male lead, one female lead) are interesting.

u/Iliketoruindresses · 3 pointsr/OkCupid
u/jrandom · 3 pointsr/artificial

Yay! I just bought the kindle version and will start reading it immediately.

I'm absolutely fascinated with the prospect of machine intelligence: it moves us closer to answering the question of whether or not self-awareness is an inherent property of massive neural networks (of a particular design and complexity), or if awareness is the result of some other mechanism merely tied to the brain (say, feedback from the complex electrical field generated by the neurons as a separate entity, or some kind of quirk of quantum behavior at those scales not taken into account in current artificial models).

Then there's the secondary question: is it possible to have an intelligent mind that appears self-aware but is not self-aware, ala Blindsight.

u/paradoxia · 3 pointsr/printSF

From what I recall, Spin State was a pretty nicely done and subtle handling of this concept and I believe the sequels continue it nicely as well.

u/red_matrix · 2 pointsr/JordanPeterson

Camp of Saints

> The novel depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the West. Almost forty years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.

u/ryeoldfashioned · 2 pointsr/printSF

I liked it but didn't love it. I read another book about social breakdown from disrupted oil supplies which I preferred (though not really SF, more of a thriller):

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Light-Alex-Scarrow/dp/0752893270

As for John Varley, he wrote one of my favorite science fiction novels ever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_%28novel%29

Overall I think my expectations were unfairly high for Slow Apocalypse because of who wrote it.

u/Thurin · 2 pointsr/printSF

Baxter's Manifold Trilogy is indeed excellent, with the exception of the horrible Manifold: Origin, which can be excused though, if you see it as Baxter preparing himself for Evolution, which he wrote shortly after, and which is in my opinion a forgotten masterpiece (and the best I've read from Baxter).

I also strongly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital series, if you're interested in reading about politics, climate change and science, set in a near future.

I think Robert Charles Wilson has some great books, but the Spin series for me are not his best (and I don't get why did those got so many awards). From him I'd recommend instead The Chronoliths and Blind Lake.

China Mieville's Bas-Lag trilogy also gets my vote.

Other great series no one mentioned here yet are:

u/CthulhusCallerID · 2 pointsr/books

Read the whole review, funny, funny stuff. Then I clicked on the book to see what other people had to say and I noticed under 'Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed' this bad boy.

u/danromaniac · 2 pointsr/books

The worst book ever? The Shadow God.

The best review of it ever is very much worth reading however.

Edit
Excerpt: "And not only is this the worst book ever written, it's also the worst-written book ever.

Behold:

"Of all the things to think, he never thought he'd think that."

And:

"Already, he knew he wouldn't be able to do it. In fact, he KNEW he wouldn't."

???

Wasn't that already established in the previous sentence?

"Eubanks looked annoyed. He exhaled annoyingly and said..."

You know what? I could do this all night."

u/Parsia · 2 pointsr/AskNetsec

"The Blue Nowhere" was nice. It is not very realistic and it's mostly about social engineering but I enjoyed it.

u/32ndghost · 2 pointsr/collapse

I really enjoyed "The Water Knife", very plausible.

I'd also recommend Alex Scarrow "Last Light" and "Afterlight"

Some more:

"The Darkness After" by Scott B. Williams

"Lights Out" by David Crawford

"Patriots" by James Wesley Rawles

"Grid Down Reality Bites" by Bruce 'Buckshot' Hemming

u/rsashe1980 · 2 pointsr/european

This may very well turn out to be true... Camp of the Saints was written there on of the greatest books ever written - http://www.amazon.com/The-Camp-Saints-Jean-Raspail/dp/1881780074

u/maraca_milia · 2 pointsr/whatsthatbook

Could it be Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright?

http://www.amazon.com/Orphans-Chaos-The-Chronicles/dp/0765349957#

u/twoerd · 2 pointsr/lotr

This doesn't include the Hobbit (sorry), but this has 6 books + 1 for the Appendices, which means it has larger words, and each book isn't very big. As well, this is the way Tolkien originally split it up - the six books are

  • The Ring Sets Out
  • The Ring Goes South
  • The Treason of Isengard
  • The Ring Goes East (sometimes The Journey to Mordor)
  • The War of the Ring
  • The End of the Third Age (sometimes The Return of the King)

    These are Tolkien's original desired titles for the split. When they are published in 3 volumes, the way they usually are, the titles in the parentheses are used.

    If you want a higher quality version (but also more expensive) of pretty much the same thing, I'd advise the Millennium Edition
u/tomics · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Last Light - Alex Scarrow - really an awesome apocalyptic book, and not a zombie apocalypse for once :p

u/italia06823834 · 2 pointsr/lotr

So many people forget this. The 3 separate books are literally 3 volumes of one work, which is separated into 6 "books."

If you want to spend a bunch of money then sell a Collector's Edition divided into 7 Hardcovers (6 books + Appendices).

u/pipecad · 2 pointsr/scifi

Damn, just one?!? I don't think I can cut it down to less than three, and even that list would change year by year.

The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester

Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny

Orphans of Chaos, John C. Wright

(And sorry for the Amazon links, I really freakin' hate Amazon but don't know of a better/more convenient link to offer people.)(Um, if anyone has a better kind of link to provide, I'd love to hear it, thanks.)

u/druminor · 2 pointsr/tipofmytongue

Maybe it was The Secret House?

u/ReturnOfMorelaak · 2 pointsr/singularity

Not perfectly on-topic, but read Spin Control by Chris Moriarty.

For that matter, read all three, starting with this one. But Spin Control focuses heavily on future middle-east relations.

u/tuscangourmet · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

Out , Grotesque and Real world, all by female Japanese novelist Natsuo Kirino. They all have female main characters. They are very dark, and they show an interesting side of the Japanese lifestyle/sense of annihilation.

Rivlary, by Nagai Kafu. A beautifully written and mean geisha tale from the point of view of the geisha.

Murakami has already been mentioned, but unless you pick up his short stories (where he is at his best, IMHO), almost all of his novels are written by the point of view of a male character. The exception is 1q84, his latest, and by far weakest, novel.

u/fantasticsamo · 2 pointsr/books
u/78fivealive · 2 pointsr/books
u/gloubenterder · 2 pointsr/todayilearned

Started out on websites such as Klingonska Akademien and KLI.org. Later I got Marc Okrand's books (starting with The Klingon Dictionary and Klingon for the Galactic Traveler), and used to listen to Conversational Klingon on the commute to school.

u/UnforestedYellowtail · 1 pointr/unpopularopinion
u/littlebutmighty · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

I've read most of those and LOVED them. I'll just say you're looking for fictional "good books" and go from there. I recommend:

  1. Lies of Locke Lamora and its sequels by Scott Lynch. My favorite books of all time--and that's saying something. It's about a gang of con-artist thieves caught between their biggest heist and a powerful mage and his employer, who wants to use them as a cat's paw.

  2. Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Excellent fantasy with a witty, resourceful, extremely intelligent protagonist. Set in two timelines, the protagonist is the only survivor of a gypsy clan that was destroyed by a powerful enemy he vows to hunt down.

  3. The Orphans of Chaos trilogy by John C. Wright. Amazingly original fantasy, with 4 paradigms of power and featuring a showdown between the Titans and Olympian gods.

  4. The Golden Age Trilogy also by John C. Wright. This is faaaaar-future sci-fi (think 1+ million years), it's extremely creative, and if anyone else had attempted to write it, it would have turned into gobbledygook.

  5. The Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King starting with The Beekeeper's Apprentice. This is a re-imagined Sherlock Holmes series done very well, set after his official retirement, when he meets a young woman who matches his intellect and observation skills and decides to take her on as protege.

  6. The Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix. Pretty great YA fantasy in which trained practitioners can move beyond the gates of death...and have to battle things that come back from beyond those gates.

  7. The Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud. I had a ball with these books when they came out. Features a snarky demon and his master.

  8. The Hungry City Chronicles by Phillip Reeve. Set in a post-apocalyptic type world where cities are mobile and move around, chasing smaller cities down across the landscape and cannibalizing them for resources.
u/aleifur · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Peter Watts only one book, but what a book.

u/tyrannosaurus_sex · 1 pointr/harrypotter
u/mformichelli · 1 pointr/scifi

C.S. Friedman's In Conquest Born-
She's normally a Fantasy writer, so I'm guessing the style will appeal to you, and the book is awesome.
http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Born-Daw-Book-Collectors/dp/0756400430

u/DogXe · 1 pointr/PostCollapse

Try this book... Last Light. Describes what the break down of civilization could be like, in a very rapid period of days.

u/marglexx · 1 pointr/offbeat

There is a science fiction book based on this scenario.

The "agency" says that a wasp inside salon of a car can cause a huge damage comparing the size of a wasp to a human. So they send one man to be a "Wasp" inside the enemy lines...


Erick Frank Russell - Wasp


BTW The book is great(!), funny I really enjoyed it.

u/dualBasis · 1 pointr/soylent

Putting the GI elements to the side for a moment - at the end of the day, if I'm considering going on a soylent-only diet, I'd like to be confident that what I'm eating is safe and healthy. One way to do that is to say look, I trust the company, and I trust the independent verifying agencies, so I don't need to know any more about what goes into it. The other way is to say I want to research myself the safety and health impacts of those ingredients.

Now one could say that this is a waste of time. That this product is more complicated than simply researching an ingredient that appears on the label, and that any research I do will be simply scratching the surface compared to what the researchers at Rosa Labs will have done. I acknowledge this point, but feel equally unhappy with the idea of throwing up my hands and trusting the various companies and agencies.

This tension extends far beyond Soylent, or other shakes. I remember when I first found out how margerine and ice cream were produced (from The Secret House) I told my parents and expected them to be shocked, and instead my Dad basically said well, at some point you've gotta trust that it's OK to eat.

I do eat margerine (Smart Balance actually) and I do eat ice cream. I don't give any weight to the organic movement, and my stance on processed and GMO foods essentially lines up with Soylent's Approach to Nutrition. I guess what's different about a product like Soylent is:

  1. Because it's new, it doesn't have the implicit long-term evidence of safety that comes from being a common food item.
  2. Because many people (including me) consider making it a mainstay of their diet, whatever impact it has will be much larger than the small bit of margerine I put on toast once in a while, or a bowl of ice cream once or twice a month.

    There's also a less important concern, wherein I would like to know what is the majority of what I eat. Right now it's undoubtedly chicken or milk. It's easy to say, if on an exclusive Soylent diet, that you eat Soylent, but for some reason it's important for me to know and emphasize that really, the majority of what you eat when on Soylent is Maltodextrin. Being less familiar with that than, say, chicken and milk, prompted me to research it a bit, my only previous exposure having been a poor one from the ON Serious Mass vs OS Pro Gainer situation (which I mentioned in another post on this thread).
u/TATANE_SCHOOL · 1 pointr/movies

Even better book about first contact : Blind Sight by Peter Watts

u/BrastolTheBard · 1 pointr/scifiwriting

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Light-Alex-Scarrow/dp/0752893270

Definitely dystopian / apocalyptic, not very sci-fi though. Follows a family over a week as England and the world fall into chaos during a catastrophic oil crisis

u/-updn- · 1 pointr/lotr

I am currently reading the Millenium Edition which breaks the "trilogy" into 6 separate volumes. Each book in the trilogy as most people know it is actually comprised of two books. I think its really interesting to read it this way because you gain a different perspective on the story. And since each book is half as long you feel like you're accomplishing a lot more ;)

u/bejeweledlyoness · 1 pointr/ForeverAloneWomen
u/keithcozz · 1 pointr/books
u/chocolate_bread · 1 pointr/lotr

I like The Millenium Edition, which comes as a boxed set of seven hardback volumes.

It might be hard to find new, for under your budget, but it is a lovely collection.

u/JasonDJ · 1 pointr/programming

Be grateful it isn'tJeffery Deaver?

u/Dr_Gats · 1 pointr/Futurology

Fiction: Counting Heads by David Marusek (and the sequel, Mind over Ship )

Local author, beautifully extrapolates technology hundreds of years into the future, explores the problems that becoming immortal as a race entails for humans. Delves deeply into nanotech, cloning, space colonization, information control and AI.

Has a complex plot with a lot of characters, the whole book seems to more paint a picture of the future than it does tell a story. (but the political/conspiracy thriller story is quite good also, if complex)

u/kernelPanicked · 1 pointr/science

If you like this sort of thing, see if you can't get your hands on this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-House-Extraordinary-Ordinary/dp/0425188426

A couple of these pictures appear in it, and more. Plus the text is quite informative, if a bit dated.

u/windmilltheory · 1 pointr/books

Wasp, by Eric Frank Russel is a clasic spy-fi novel.

http://www.amazon.com/Wasp-Eric-Frank-Russell/dp/0575070951

Quite enjoyable and "pulpy".. it has an early Heinelein/Doc EE Smith wibe about it.

u/enoughproduce · 1 pointr/RandomActsOfPolish

Recently re-read The Blue Nowhere which is my favorite book of all time. You should check it out - you won't regret it!

Should I Hashtag it? I think so. /#Big Spender

u/cjthomp · 1 pointr/TwoXChromosomes

Spin State by Chris Moriarty

Amazing SciFi book.

u/mlmiller1 · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino

u/mei9ji · 1 pointr/reddit.com

Robert Heinlein:

Stranger in a Strange Land

The Past Through Tomorrow and Other Future Histories

Time Enough For Love

Double Star

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls


Christopher Stasheff:

The Warlock in Spite of Himself

C.S. Friedman:

Black Sun Rising

Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson:

Variable Star

Jeffery Deaver

The Blue Nowhere

u/catvllvs · 1 pointr/WTF

> taking out most of a person's brain except a tiny bit of the frontal lobe and their sensorimotor areas, leaving some semi-aware twitching consciousness that doesn't know what it's missing for the brief period it's reanimated, but feels like it's missing something.

Read Noir - punishment for copyright theft is taking a person's awareness and placing it into something electronic (toasters, cables, etc).

Reading your sentence reminded me when the protagonist listened into one of his captures in something electronic saying "where am I, I'm cold and wet, and it's dark and I'm alone".

u/Charlie_Wallflower · 1 pointr/books

Bad writing would be this book, The Shadow God. It is the most painful horribly written book I could ever imagine yet could never create if I tried.

Good writing is this review that saves you from ever having to read it.


"Not only is it the worst book ever written, it's also the worst-written book ever. "

u/backronyms · 1 pointr/books

Crooked Little Vein is wickedly funny and contains really fantastic back and forth between utterly sociopathic, vile characters. The author is better known for his graphic novels, and the dialog reflects this.

u/verylate · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Crooked-Little-Vein-Novel-P-S/dp/B003F76I1K/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348029842&sr=1-3&keywords=warren+ellis

My comic book match sent it to me. I haven't read it yet, but my husband said it was the most twisted novel he's ever read.

u/The_Unreal · 1 pointr/Fantasy

Try Spin State by Chris Moriarty.

For me, the book represents a lot of what is compelling about sci-fi as a genre. It talks about ideas, the human condition, and important questions all while telling an engaging story based on a reasonable extrapolation of technology.

I burned through this book really quickly.

u/audiobibliofile · 1 pointr/books

Redshirts - John Scalzi

The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling

Ruins - Orson Scott Card

Lisey's Story - Stephen King


Working my way through the Stephen King chronology for the 2nd time, in between new stuff.

u/piratepixie · 1 pointr/harrypotter

How 'bout this

I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered.

u/MetaMemeticMagician · 1 pointr/TheNewRight
u/harlows_monkeys · 0 pointsr/IAmA

Regardless of the answer to the fecal question, you probably want to keep the toothbrush protected, because fecal matter is not the only thing in the bathroom you might not want to brush your teeth with.

There's an interesting book, "The Secret House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day", that looks at what goes on in and around an ordinary house over the course of an ordinary day that we are largely unaware of.

I don't remember if it mentioned fecal matter, but I do remember it vividly describing the urine mist that permeates the air in the bathroom and coats everything exposed in there after a male style urination.

u/mnemosyne-0002 · 0 pointsr/KotakuInAction

Archives for the links in comments:

u/rayyychul · 0 pointsr/harrypotter

There are a few