Hi! Do you have any good book recommendations you'd like to share?
GOOD book recommendations? you're asking too much (kidding). I'll rattle off some faves off the top of my head but I'm not really going to give a synopsis because no synopsis sounds good.
American psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. I cannot believe how funny and great this book was. the movie is good but loses a LOT of the odd manic humour of the book. I didn't expect it to be funny. haven't read any of Ellis's other stuff yet but I've got a few in the hopper.
I've spent the last year(s) reading [checks watch] 10 of Robin Hobb's books, the farseer books or the elderlings or whatever you want to call them, starting with Assassin's Apprentice. a very cool world, very whole characters that fuck up and live and age and you get very attached to them. it's about... the bastard son of a prince who gets raised to be an assassin I guess. barry read them first and now a friend is reading them too and we call it being hobbled (like Robin hobb) when you can't put one of her books down. here's a photo Barry took of me while I was hobbled. I spent hours reading like this because it was so intense.
read Ubik by Phillip k dick recently, really enjoyed that. great short punchy sci fi as one expects from PKD.
a fire upon the deep by vernor vinge is an absolute classic and one I think about very very often even though I read it years ago. it's got.. aliens. war. big scale but also character driven.
the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss, and its sequel, is so good I want to reread them. be warned: there's a 3rd book "due" that he will never write. but I named my cat after a character in this so that's something. great "garbage shitboy wizard who becomes grizzled and regretful" stuff, not unlike the farseer books and also the OG, Ursula le guin's Earthsea series (also a high recommend)
The left hand of darkness by Ursula le guin is probably one of the best books ever written, while I'm at it. also due for a re read. or anything of hers, you can't go wrong.
ok that's all I can think of and I have to go to work. best of luck.
EDIT oh my god I forgot hyperion by Dan Simmons. THAT is one of the best books ever written.
I also have a goodreads where you can see what I'm reading but I haven't added every book I've ever read nor do I write good reviews, just like, a log going forward