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Originally Posted by Kostya
If I may, I think I shall bring my trademark brand of poorly disguised wankerdom to this thread and suggest a few old safe ones...
If you are indeed insane, then I highly reccomend that you go and find Fanz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' which totally freaked me out and I don't know why.
In other news, Joseph Conrad rocks the kasbah and everyone should read at least Heart of Darkness, and from there Lord Jim and Chance too.
Those crazy Russians have kept me entertained, especially Fyodor with his nightmarish existential tales, Brothers Karamazov haunts me still. Tolstoy of course.
Well for now I'm going to bow out before people start hurling rocks at me.
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I'd second Metamorphosis, it's a pretty grim story. Joseph Conrad seems a little dated to me (although anyone who liked Apocalypse Now should read Heart of Darkness). I've not read Tolstoy, but Dosteyefsky (sp?) never fails to impress.
More on the fantasy subject, I personally didn't like the Thomas Covenent series that much (and the second trilogy I found really horrible). I would recommend Michael Moorcock, Theodore Sturgeon, and Harlan Ellison. The last two did alot of short stories, but their novels are also top-notch. All tend more to sf than pure fantasy, but both the Elric and Corum series by Moorcock are more fantasy-styled.