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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2380182" data-attributes="member: 259">If you like that, Tetsubo, I highly, highly recommend Joyce Carol Oates's Zombie. It's got similar themes, but is much....more realistic, I suppose. It's written from the killer's viewpoint, and convinced me that however much I adore Ms. Oates's writing, I never, never want to sleep in the same house as her.  [edit:  I want to emphasize that neither Brite's nor Oates's books are for the faint of heart:  they make Psycho look like Little House on the Prairie.  Be warned!] My other favorite novel by her, A Bloodsmoor Romance, has been described "as if Little Women were written by Stephen King." It's an apt analogy for a deliciously twisted, surreal take on Victorian novels. Not the easiest book to get into, but man, once you're hooked, you're hooked. Perdido Street Station and His Dark Materials are among my favorite fantasy works of the past decade; add Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and you've got my three favorites. However, those first two are famously controversial; people seem to love them or hate them, and neither side seems willing to give an inch <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Try them out for sure, but if you find yourself furious at them, don't say I didn't warn you. It's worth the risk, in case you're one of those folks who, like me, is swept away by their monstrous beauty. Finally, some old-school adventure: you can't go wrong with Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo. It's sometimes called the greatest revenge story ever told, with good reason, and it's got it all. An absolute masterpiece. Daniel</blockquote>

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