What novel should I read next?

[OldAccount]

I'm almost finished Dark Tower IV and as I've done with the others I'm planing on taking a brake with another novel before moving on to number V. Yahtzee's latest Extra Punctuation article got me thinking that I might want to checkout something by H.P. Lovecraft but I'm not entirely sold yet. Any recommendations?

My favorite genres are horror and adventure but I'm good with anything.

 

[Tonythion]

Vampire Hunter D
can't really call it horror but it is adventure/sci-fi almost.

 

[nohorsetown]

They generally get worse after #4, to be honest. Lovecraft is good, but the stories are always kinda the same: "I'm first-person narrating some horrendous alien thing what happened to me.. I'm in an institution now but I swear it was creepy.. it's building up.. you can see it coming, but wait.. it was really alien and creepy, see.. and then *that* happened, and I know it's not so shocking, but I swear, the big reveal will be creepy.. oh, here it is! Big creepy reveal! It was *out of this world*! Oh, the insanity!!" ... I always recommend Dune (and the 3 proper sequels after it). Is that "adventure"? Might be. Check it out.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Read the divine comedy by Dante.

 

[Jake Chant]

i really liked enders game i mean it might seem like a kids book but if ur into stratagys and stuff like tht its deffinately worth a try

 

[Sonicron]

Well then, if everything's fine with you, here's some Sci-Fi. The two 'starter' novels I usually recommend for someone to try out Warhammer 40.000: "Brothers of the Snake" by Dan Abnett, or "Angels of Darkness" by Gav Thorpe. "Eisenhorn" by Dan Abnett is still better, but that's a whole trilogy of novels, whereas these two are stand-alones.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I won't try to describe it, because it'd ruin the whole thing. But if you see a copy, pick it up.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

World War Z is an amazing read. Its a zombie story but its told through the point of view of the survivers of a near Zombie Armageddon in the form of a Bioagraphy. Like all good Zombie stories its more about how people reacted to the threat of the undead rather than the undead themselves.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Night Angel Trilogy, Deathworld, Stainless Steel Rat and Cities in Flight.

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

Well then, if everything's fine with you, here's some Sci-Fi. The two 'starter' novels I usually recommend for someone to try out Warhammer 40.000: "Brothers of the Snake" by Dan Abnett, or "Angels of Darkness" by Gav Thorpe. "Eisenhorn" by Dan Abnett is still better, but that's a whole trilogy of novels, whereas these two are stand-alones.

^^^^ this but you can buy the einsenhorn trilogy in one big omnibus so you dont have to go looking for thim all so if you can find the omnibus GET IT or the Ravenor trilogy.
Also check out the silmarillion by Tolkien.