Book rec time!

[penmage]

All right, people, I want book recs. I'm looking for good things to read over the summer.

There are 80-odd people who read this journal, and most of you read a lot. I want at least one rec (though feel free to give me more) from each of you.

I'm looking for something I've never read before. It doesn't have to be SF/F - in fact, I think I'd prefer if it wasn't (not that you can't also recommend SF/F.)

Thanks to y'all in advance.

Comments

[dhole.livejournal.com]

Based on the Locus booklist you posted, you haven't read, and don't yet plan on reading The Incomplete Enchanter, Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp. It's highly worth reading.

Also recommended: Ressurection Man & The Night Watch, by Sean Stewart. They're in the same universe, but they're not exactly a series. I personally prefer The Night Watch, but they're both very good. Anything by Henry Kuttner; mostly he wrote short stories, and he worked under a number of pseudonyms. He worked closely with his wife, C.L. Moore, and trying to distangle their writing from each others is generally hopeless. Some great stuff there, though.

As far as non-SF goes, I'm currently reading through The Golden Bough, by Frasier. It's interesting, though the general problems with his starting information are fairly obvious -- he calls Ganesha "Gunputty", and seems to have rather confused ideas as to the relationship of Tibetian lamasaries to the Chinese government of the turn of the last century, and so on. But very interesting.