Well written/exciting/interesting books you recommend?

[Complexion]

Was listening to this interview that said most authors are boring. That they drone on and on, saying a whole load of nothing and how prose should be exciting.

No words wasted, each sentence adding to the next. An intensely cerebral experience that is handled with elegance and finesse.


Really made me think and, off top, I simply cannot think a title that ticks these boxes - granted I also dont read much fiction which would probably help let those things rip in the surroundings. Plenty of the opposite but nothing that generates those feelings so I thought Id ask the brehs and brehettes.

What have ye?

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Obama's book post presidency is a really good read.

 

[Complexion]

Obama's book post presidency is a really good read.

Does it fulfill the criteria set out in the OP about being exciting? I'm looking for specific examples that tick these boxes please.

 

[earthwalka]

slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut

fictional, yes but completely enthralling

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Does it fulfill the criteria set out in the OP about being exciting? I'm looking for specific examples that tick these boxes please.

It was exciting to me but I'm a news and politics junkie. It was amazing getting insight into events of his presidency that I watched play out in real time. I even supplemented my reading of the book by pulling up news clips of specific incidents that he mentioned in the book. That was exciting to me. I loved it.

To dumb brehs who don't keep up with current events and know nothing about politics, it probably won't be exciting tho

 

[MMS]

slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut

fictional, yes but completely enthralling

if you like that, you should read Cats Cradle as well

Vonnegut is a great one. I also enjoy Bukowski and Palahniuk (sp)

 

[ViShawn]

slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut

fictional, yes but completely enthralling

Have you read Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut?

 

[Knowledge]

Carl sagan, "the demon haunted world"

 

[The Pledge]

Rude Jude’s audiobooks Hummingbird and forgot the other one.

shyt could be scripted into a HBO series with the amount of fukkery that dude has been through. A few Ws, a dozen Ls, all entertaining

 

[badhat]

Was listening to this interview that said most authors are boring. That they drone on and on, saying a whole load of nothing and how prose should be exciting.

No words wasted, each sentence adding to the next. An intensely cerebral experience that is handled with elegance and finesse.


Really made me think and, off top, I simply cannot think a title that ticks these boxes - granted I also dont read much fiction which would probably help let those things rip in the surroundings. Plenty of the opposite but nothing that generates those feelings so I thought Id ask the brehs and brehettes.

What have ye?

A common answer for exciting, elegant, and cerebral that's got no words wasted is Hemingway.

 

[Patrick Kane]

Absolutely exists. Like countless books… but like you said, you don’t read fiction so you wouldn’t know.

I’ll be honest, fiction, especially in our warped short attention span social media era is difficult for people to just get into. I can recommend you books but if you haven’t been reading fiction for years and prepping your brain for the mental fortitude of completing great works of art, you may get distracted and just give up. I always tell people, you need to give a good fiction book at least 100 pages for the story to truly unfold. If you get past 100 pages, you probably will want to finish it.

Here are a few to start that may fit your criteria:

I’d recommend these five to get you started. I read them all in the past year and they All different types of genre of fiction, set in different time periods across different geographical regions with their unique stories. The last one is technically a non fiction but reads like a fiction and is going to be one of the most highly anticipated films to drop later this year.

 

[earthwalka]

Have you read Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut?

nah not yet. that's my next one for Kurt

 

[Mastamimd]

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[Piff Perkins]

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him.

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never speaks her name, the child does not know it. He has a sister in this world that he will not see again. He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

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One of the best novels I've ever read, if not the best. And the most violent, deplorable, and ugly thing I've ever witnessed. Mankind, on full display.