We've done the movie thread. Time for the Book thread.

[ForeverAutumn]

That movie thread was pretty interesting. In fact, I'm going to print it off as there were a lot of good recs there.

So, we've done the movie recs, now it's time for some book recs. I'm looking for some good summer reading. What are your favourite books and/or authors?

Here's a couple of mine to get the ball rolling.

Watership Down by Richard Adams - Yes it's about rabbits, but this is about as far removed from Peter Cottontail as it gets. I read this book about every four or five years and always enjoy it.

Blindness by Jose Saramago - I just finished this incredible story about an epidemic of white blindness which renders the entire world blind, except for one woman. The reader is able to see the world through her eyes. This isn't a disaster story as much as it is a social commentary about the psyche of people and adapting to change. Saramago won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1998.

The Stand by Stephen King - One of King's earlier books and one of my all-time favourites. This was written in the era of The Shining and Salem's Lot when King was, IMHO, in his writing prime. Later books like Cujo and Christine were such crap in comparison that I stopped reading him.

So, what do you spend your time reading?