{"id":17591,"date":"2013-02-19T06:13:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17591"},"modified":"2013-02-11T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:49:26","slug":"suggest-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17591","title":{"rendered":"Suggest a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I mentioned the Blind Date with a Book<\/a> book-swap idea, and intrepid reader xJane commented:<\/p>\n

This. Sounds like fun. It also sounds like the kind of thing that Amazon (or the like) needs to enable for ebooks. I have a bunch of books that I think it would be fun to spring upon you and your unsuspecting readers<\/strike> you and your readers might enjoy, but since they’re not physical, it’s harder to share them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, we may not be able to share them, but we can at least recommend ’em. I’ll go first.<\/p>\n

I’d like to suggest Dan Simmons as an author whose oeuvre should be up my readers’ collective alley. Some of his novels (there are several more) include:<\/p>\n

Song of Kali<\/a> – An American journalist travels to Calcutta and encounters a horrific cult which worships Kali.<\/p>\n

Carrion Comfort<\/a> – Multiple timelines weave together a story of “mind vampires” who can use their powers to completely control anyone.<\/p>\n

Drood<\/a> – Fictionalized account of the last few years of Charles Dickens’ life, explaining why his final novel remained unfinished.<\/p>\n

Prayers to Broken Stones<\/a> – A great collection of short stories, covering topics as diverse as the familial implications of returning from the dead, a combat theme park in Vietnam, and a barber’s guild with a dark secret.<\/p>\n

Summer of Night<\/a> – A Stephen King-esque tale of five pre-teen protagonists who discover something terrifying in an old school building. Its sequel, A Winter Haunting<\/a>, finds one of them as an adult encountering something that was left behind.<\/p>\n

The Terror<\/a> – Fictionalized account of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, a lost Arctic expedition.<\/p>\n

Now it’s your turn: What books do you think other readers of this site might enjoy? Leave your suggestions in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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