I'll recommend some good books you might not have read.

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recitador

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Geek Love by Katharine Dunn.
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (King called this one of the best horror novels of the 20th century)
John Dies at the End by David Wong (one of the best books I've ever read)

I'll post more if I think of any.

i haven't read John Dies at the End, but i did recently get a copy of This Book is Full of Spiders by the same author in a book box i subscribe to. i'll probably be reading it in a couple weeks.
 

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i haven't read John Dies at the End, but i did recently get a copy of This Book is Full of Spiders by the same author in a book box i subscribe to. i'll probably be reading it in a couple weeks.

This Book Is Full of Spiders was pretty good but not as good as John Dies at the End, he has a third book about the same characters coming out in October.
 

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Geek Love by Katharine Dunn.
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (King called this one of the best horror novels of the 20th century)
John Dies at the End by David Wong (one of the best books I've ever read)

I'll post more if I think of any.
Geek Love made me feel like I was 8 years old again reading my Famous Monsters Of Filmland, Creepy and Eerie magazines! This book is hard to describe to anyone as it's in a category all by itself. It's horror, sure, but it's also a mish-mash of other genres.
Carrion Comfort is definitely one of the best novels I've ever read and it's another one that is a mish-mash of genres. Horror, thriller, suspense, sci-fi all rolled into one. The writing is superb (it actually started out as a short story and was published as such but Simmons was told by Ellen Datlow that he couldn't turn it into a novel and I guess he sure showed her!) and the pacing is great, too. Simmons is in my top three list of favorite authors. I have every book he's written and while there are a few that aren't my favorites he always writes something that interests me. I recommend his first novel Song Of Kali- it made me want to never visit Calcutta! His novel Summer Of Night has become a classic in the genre. It unfortunately keeps getting compared to It as it involves a group of school boys and was published around the same time, but there the similarities end. Simmons pulls a Hitchcock in this book and pulls it off well.
 

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Geek Love made me feel like I was 8 years old again reading my Famous Monsters Of Filmland, Creepy and Eerie magazines! This book is hard to describe to anyone as it's in a category all by itself. It's horror, sure, but it's also a mish-mash of other genres.
Carrion Comfort is definitely one of the best novels I've ever read and it's another one that is a mish-mash of genres. Horror, thriller, suspense, sci-fi all rolled into one. The writing is superb (it actually started out as a short story and was published as such but Simmons was told by Ellen Datlow that he couldn't turn it into a novel and I guess he sure showed her!) and the pacing is great, too. Simmons is in my top three list of favorite authors. I have every book he's written and while there are a few that aren't my favorites he always writes something that interests me. I recommend his first novel Song Of Kali- it made me want to never visit Calcutta! His novel Summer Of Night has become a classic in the genre. It unfortunately keeps getting compared to It as it involves a group of school boys and was published around the same time, but there the similarities end. Simmons pulls a Hitchcock in this book and pulls it off well.

Back when I was interested in stop motion animation I wanted to make a stop motion movie of Geek Love, I was very young though and didn't even think about the fact that the book is unfilmable, especially because of an important yet disgusting plot point that happens later in the book. Tim Burton owned the rights to make a movie of Geek Love at one point and that makes sense since the book reminded me of Batman Returns.
 

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Definitely check those out. Especially the horror book king said was scary.
John dies at end,
what genre is that

One book that u can read in a day or 2 that I recommend that a lot of people probably never heard of is titled , Generation X. Cool read
 
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recitador

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Definitely check those out. Especially the horror book king said was scary.
John dies at end,
what genre is that

One book that u can read in a day or 2 that I recommend that a lot of people probably never heard of is titled , Generation X. Cool read

based on the guys other book i got i'd guess horror
 

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Rambo: First Blood 2 by David Morrell, never read it before, I am reading it now. I don't like movie novelisations normally but it is good. One of the best movie novelisation books I've read since I read Ramsay Campbell's novelisation of the Solomon Kane movie
 

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Geek Love made me feel like I was 8 years old again reading my Famous Monsters Of Filmland, Creepy and Eerie magazines! This book is hard to describe to anyone as it's in a category all by itself. It's horror, sure, but it's also a mish-mash of other genres.
Carrion Comfort is definitely one of the best novels I've ever read and it's another one that is a mish-mash of genres. Horror, thriller, suspense, sci-fi all rolled into one. The writing is superb (it actually started out as a short story and was published as such but Simmons was told by Ellen Datlow that he couldn't turn it into a novel and I guess he sure showed her!) and the pacing is great, too. Simmons is in my top three list of favorite authors. I have every book he's written and while there are a few that aren't my favorites he always writes something that interests me. I recommend his first novel Song Of Kali- it made me want to never visit Calcutta! His novel Summer Of Night has become a classic in the genre. It unfortunately keeps getting compared to It as it involves a group of school boys and was published around the same time, but there the similarities end. Simmons pulls a Hitchcock in this book and pulls it off well.
Summer of Night is my favorite book ever....even better than IT but somewhat similar.
 

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...here is my own suggestion.....
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