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

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

I'm reading David and Leah Eddings' Regina's Song right now, and although the prose really isn't up to standard - it might be a style choice on their part, but if it is, it isn't working very well - the story itself is fascinating. It's a murder mystery in which one half of the solution is blatantly obvious, and the other half...well, I'm about two-thirds through, and still stumped.

As an avowed Stephen King hater, I am happy to reccomend Eyes of the Dragon to anyone else who hates Stephen King. It's like an entirely different writer, one who's not only good but doesn't have that taste for splattering blood all over the place. And if you have read Stephen King, there's more of that characters-jumping-storylines bit going on.

Everyone in the entire universe should read The Adept and its sequels by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris. It's clever, fascinating, well-paced, and theological. If you can find it, Kurtz' Lammas Night is a good companion to the series, but it's been out of print for a while.

And there you are. :D