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"One Of Us" by Michael Marshall Smith
Its a bizarre story about a near future where companies illegally hire people to handle other people's memories for a few hours. You want to have an affair but want none of the guilt while you do it? Boom! Forget you have a wife. Want to look more innocent at a company security meeting? Bang! Forget you embezzled funds. Unfortunately our "hero" gets left with the memory of a murder and needs to find the woman who gave it to him to give it back. Sounds stupidly serious but it has a strange dark humour tone to it. Appliances can talk, smoking is an A class felony and the internet is an actual place patrolled by scary age checking digital nannies at every access point to porn. Interesting.
Its a bizarre story about a near future where companies illegally hire people to handle other people's memories for a few hours. You want to have an affair but want none of the guilt while you do it? Boom! Forget you have a wife. Want to look more innocent at a company security meeting? Bang! Forget you embezzled funds. Unfortunately our "hero" gets left with the memory of a murder and needs to find the woman who gave it to him to give it back. Sounds stupidly serious but it has a strange dark humour tone to it. Appliances can talk, smoking is an A class felony and the internet is an actual place patrolled by scary age checking digital nannies at every access point to porn. Interesting.
The Stand by Stephan King (if you are bro enuff to get past the first half. It's 1134 pages long and rivals Atlus Shrug in longness and boring first half)
& My unheard book suggestion, Sandman Slim by Richard Kaudry. Seriously people, pick up this book the third on is coming out in October and it's the one thing non-videogame related I'm excited for!
& My unheard book suggestion, Sandman Slim by Richard Kaudry. Seriously people, pick up this book the third on is coming out in October and it's the one thing non-videogame related I'm excited for!
"The Passage" by Justin Cronin (2010). A post-apocalyptic epic tale that borrows heavily from "The Stand" and "I am Legend."
I had someone on this website recommend me the book "Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse" by Victor Gischler. Its an awesome post-apocalyptic book. I flew through the book. Please at least check it out you will not regret it.
Here's a few suggestions from my own Library, anything by Tolkien, The Inheritence Cycle, if you're into mystery you can't go wrong with Agatha Christy (I don't even like Mystery novals and I like her books) and generally a good rule of thumb is, if a book looks good, read it.
All right. Apparently, I didn't say enough in my last post, so here goes.
The Dark Tower, by Stephen King. I'll say it once more it IS worth your time.
The Walking Dead. More Graphic novel than pure novel, sure, but an excellent story nontheless.
World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks. ZSG is a good parody of a survival guide, WWZ is an awesome (and realistic) imagining of a zombie overtake of the real world.
Story of Pi, by Yann Martel (surprise Nightmare Fuel!)for a fairly perspective-driven story
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If you're into certain games:
Bioshock: Rapture. How Rapture came to fruition, and how it fell (also a damn good warning to the Republicans saying: 'Gawd damn gov'ment has too much power!Privatize everything!')
The Dark Tower, by Stephen King. I'll say it once more it IS worth your time.
The Walking Dead. More Graphic novel than pure novel, sure, but an excellent story nontheless.
World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks. ZSG is a good parody of a survival guide, WWZ is an awesome (and realistic) imagining of a zombie overtake of the real world.
Story of Pi, by Yann Martel (surprise Nightmare Fuel!)for a fairly perspective-driven story
...
If you're into certain games:
Bioshock: Rapture. How Rapture came to fruition, and how it fell (also a damn good warning to the Republicans saying: 'Gawd damn gov'ment has too much power!Privatize everything!')
