Author Recommendations?

**weezergirl** · February 13th, 2013

I'd like to LIVE in the Shire...

**GNTLGNT** · February 14th, 2013

Originally Posted by weezergirl

I'd like to LIVE in the Shire...

...as would I....but with my height and width...no hobbit hole ever constructed would be big enough to hold me excess....not to mention, my feet am bald...

**carrie's younger brother** · February 14th, 2013

Margaret Atwood: best dystopian fiction writer out there right now

And in no particular order:
Chuck Palahniuk
Christopher Moore
Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex may be my favorite novel of all time, sorry SK)
L. Frank Baum
Roald Dahl
Joe Hill (novels)
Ray Bradbury

**carrie's younger brother** · February 14th, 2013

Originally Posted by carrie's younger brother

Margaret Atwood: best dystopian fiction writer out there right now

And in no particular order:
Chuck Palahniuk
Christopher Moore
Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex may be my favorite novel of all time, sorry SK)
L. Frank Baum
Roald Dahl
Joe Hill (novels)
Ray Bradbury

Correction: For Joe Hill, I recommend his novels AND short story collection, 20th Century Ghosts. Not really into his comic books though.

**Lily Sawyer** · February 14th, 2013

Originally Posted by carrie's younger brother

Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex may be my favorite novel of all time, sorry SK)

Mine's Perfume by Patrick Süßkind.

**mjs9153** · February 14th, 2013

Innkeeper,good job in the Shire..pedicure

technician,not so much..

**weezergirl** · February 14th, 2013

Other than the hairy toes thing I think I'd be an awesome hobbit...I'd fit in a hobbit hole I enjoy lotsa food and a good ale (or 3). I have second breakfast all the time! Maybe I could just buy all the books everyone here has mentioned and some fuzzy slippers and sneak off to middle earth....

**kingricefan** · February 14th, 2013

Originally Posted by Lily Sawyer

Mine's Perfume by Patrick Süßkind.

This is a good book! I read it when it was first published here in the States. I think it won alot of awards in Europe?

**Lily Sawyer** · February 15th, 2013

Originally Posted by kingricefan

This is a good book! I read it when it was first published here in the States. I think it won alot of awards in Europe?

I don't know if Perfume won awards in Europe, but it sure got translated into enough languages to beat the band. Süßkind's play Der Kontrabaß won the German equivalent to a Pulitzer Prize. Don't bother with the movie version of Perfume, though - it sucked. There's no way to effectively transfer the novel's verbiage and the protagonist's motives to 70 mm celluloid.