Give Me Your Amazing Fiction Recommends! (Horror, Suspense, etc...) - Mine

[matcom]

decided to take a break from the political reading this week and have read 2 AMAZING suspense-filled fiction works:

"The Descent" by Jeff Long - Captivating. Religious undertones while battling an underground world millions of years old and surprisingly evolved. Essentially, containing Satan himself spanning the entire underworld of the planet.

"Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane (Author of Mystic River) - Holy SHITE this book and its ending will freak you out! Set on an island off Boston Harbor there is a secrete insane asylum run by the government. Can't tell you any more than that but INCREDIBLE!!

And one author that i HAVE to recommend.....

"Blindsighted" by Karin Slaughter - The first in a series (currently of 3 works). Read it and you will HAVE to read the other two ("Kisscut" & "A Faint Cold Fear"). TRUST me. If you CRAVE suspense and murder mysteries, you will LOVE this author!!

now, i am out of Fiction and want YOUR recommends along the same lines (preferring horror, suspense, etc...)

THANKS

[flamingyouth]

1. I like Karin Slaughter too

You might like "Dearly Beloved," by Wendy Corsi Staub. It creeped me out.:scared:

[cheezus]

2. Eragon

Fantasy. Somewhere in between Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Teenage boy and a dragon, magic.

[Rowdyboy]

3. Lincoln Child "the Cabinet of Curiousities"

Agent Pendergrast is a very different FBI agent who has a mysterious background and New Orleans connections. I'd start with the first novel "Relics", even though it is the weakest. They're all good writing.

Shutter Island blew me away. Can't say that I really loved the ending. It left me confused and uneasy. Still, I loved the book.

on edit: Some of the novels are co-authored by Doug Preston. Originally heard of these books in a thread where Skinner asked for book recommendations.

[Nay]

4. Shutter Island was really good. I suggest you read all

the "Repairman Jack" novels by F. Paul Wilson. Jack "fixes" things for people (sorta like the Equalizer) and in some of the books, there is a supernatural element.

[SarahB]

5. You asked for it

The Pearl was a recent favorite of mine.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345410041/qid=1086566681/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/102-8794781-5028903?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

:spank:

[jus_the_facts]

6. The Stand....Stephen King...

....Stranger In A Strange Land...Heinlein...anything by Isaac Asimov or Frank Herbert...The DaVinci Code...Dan Brown...Darwin's Radio..Greg Bear.....ahh the list goes on and on. :)

[Bridget Burke]

7. "The List of 7" by Mark Frost

Mark Frost was a co-creator of "Twin Peaks". In this novel, he goes back in time. Back to London, where young physician & aspiring writer A. Conan Doyle follows his interest in the occult to a very dark secret. He is soon assisting the brilliant & mysterious Jack Sparks in foiling a hideous plot which is afoot. Could Jack be the inspiration for Doyle's Great Detective?

Truly a ripping yarn. Frost followed it with 6 Messiahs which disappointed me. A later rereading proved it very good--just not as excellent as The List of 7.

[Flaxbee]

8. Arturo Perez-Reverte for mysteries, also Henning Mankell

P-R does great, intriguing mysteries, my favorite is "The Seville Communion" about a hacker breaking into the Vatican computers to urge the Pope to save a small church in Seville.. that part of the story isn't dwelled on too long, though. Much of the story is just following the path of the priest sent to Seville to check out what's going on. Henning Mankell writes good mysteries set in Sweden, it's nice to 'experience' small-town Swedish life through these books.

I LOVE John Mortimer, who wrote all of the Rumpole! stories. Rumpole is a classic, wonderful fiction character. I wish Rumpole was my grandfather. Love him.

"Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner is one of my favorite books. Simply wonderful. One of those novels where life happens with all its ups and downs. No big mysteries, some happiness and some tragedy, but it all leaves the reader feeling good about being human.

Hard for me to say, I LOVE TO READ, cannot not be reading a book, I almost panic if I don't have my next few figured out. Wish I could spend my life reading. Sigh.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Patricia Cornwell...

The Kay Scarpetta Series is fantastic.
Duckie

[stanwyck]

10. Another Slaughter fan

and I'm making notes on the other authors mentioned here. Always good to go to the bookstore (or to Amazon) prepared.

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Philip K. Dick

Anything he wrote. Period.

[jpgray]

18. I'd put a good word in for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Time Out of Joint, and Clans of the Alphane Moon. The last one is often darkly hilarious. :D

[mtnester]

12. Into the Forest by

Jean Hegland...not sci fi, but a very good read...not too long either. I loved it.

For some real good sultry trash, try Exit to Eden by Anne Rice

OR, it was a big tear jerker for me, even though I am completely agnostic, try the Five People you meet in Heaven.

Dean Koontz - One Door Away from Heaven was good

Also could re-read a scary could-happen-to-you story like The Handmaidens Tale or re-read a great classic like Of Mice and Men.

I like going back and re-reading the classics I read in school with the different perspective of an older adult. Even cartoons have different nuances when you watch them as an adult.

[bmbmd]

13. I was just going to say

"Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane-the best read I have had in a long time.

[Pepperbelly]

14. Strawmen by Michael Marshall ...

A pseudonym for Michael Marshall Smith when he leaves his ordinary genre but OH BOY! when he does, he rocks the Casbah. An astoundingly well-written book about a man who finds out that he isn't even close to who he thinks he his and his entire life has been an illusion, it races to climax after climax, like multiple orgasms. And that is all I can say about that. I'm scaring myself.

[PVnRT]

15. Anything by Sean Hannity

n/t

[loftycity]

16. "Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins

Best laugh in the 10 months...
Matcom could be "Switters"

[graywarrior]

17. The Sparrow

by Mary Doria Russell.

And Dennis Lehane rocks.