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Amongst fictional private eyes, those vices are probably as common as fingernail biting. Contrasted with a PI like Neil Fargo in Joe Gores' Interface, or Hammett's own Continental Op, Sam Spade would be a boyscout in comparison. A lot of the greatest hardboiled/noir fiction doesn't always...
I couldn't decide which book to cut from my list to make it a top 5, so my list has 6:
Philip K. Dick - Ubik
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
Isaac Asimov - The Caves of Steel
John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids
Frank Herbert - Dune
While I'm reading a book I'll usually have some idea about which one I want to read next. I wouldn't want to plan out a whole year's reading in order, though.
I find that often I get diverted by library books, which end up jumping the queue because of the due date. I think I need to stay...
^ I'd agree with Swag and Out of Sight. I lost interest in Cuba Libre and didn't finish it; maybe it's a love-it-or-hate-it novel.
Some other good ones:
- I started reading Leonard with Rum Punch and went on to read many others by him, so I'd call that an endorsement as a good starting...
I've had similar bad reactions from people when I mention science fiction novels, and I think part of the cause is that the impression some people have of SF as a genre is largely defined by TV and movies rather than books, and unfortunately, SF TV and movies are all too often cheesy/geeky/juvenile.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey. Been curious to read this since seeing the 70s movie version, and found that it's been reprinted as a tie-in with the remake of the movie. No idea whether the remake is any good (they usually aren't), but cheers to it for leading to the book...
Some titles I can remember:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
"On the Sidewalk Bleeding" (short story) - Evan Hunter
Macbeth and Othello - Shakespeare
The Cay - Theodore Taylor
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Go...
The thing I like best about used bookstores is finding books that I've never seen before due to the books being long out-of-print. I don't like to walk into a used bookstore and find mountains of recent books that you can get anywhere.
The thing I like least about some used bookstores is slow...
I think the Dune series works best when you just look at the first two Frank Herbert books - Dune and Dune Messiah. The rest of Frank Herbert's sequels from Children of Dune to Chapterhouse Dune are occasionally interesting, but are nowhere near the quality of the first novel, and you can skip...