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Choke. Chuck Palahniuk's (Fight Club) fourth and best book IMO. Laugh out loud dark humour and enough real situations and observations to keep you nodding all book. Everyone I've loaned this book to has become an instant CP fan. Women as well as men.

P.S. Don't bother watching the movie that came out last year. Unlike FC which was an amazing translation and one of the only movies that truly improves on the book, this one is pretty disappointing.

I was pumping up Stephen Baxter's Manifest: Time and Manifest: Space books in the Sci-Fi thread. A good read for hard sci-fi that helps expand your brain. Some pretty unique ideas in them.

I recently read Marilyn Manson's biography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell due to the urging of an ex. Had heard some of the stories within but it was nice to finally seperate some of the fact from all the crazy rumours I had heard growing up. Even if you don't appreciate his music there is enough interesting stories and observations in there to keep one interested. Fairly depressing at points though.

I recently read a book called The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. A book about getting ahead in India and the price it takes to do so. Another black comedy type book, but the author has a great knack for transporting you to the slums of India. Won the 2008 Man Booked Prize, whatever that is. People who liked Slumdog Millionaire would probably like this book, although the two have very little in common except the setting.

My favorite series ever was The Amber Series by now dead sci-fi and fantasy writer Roger Zelazny. Zelazny had won many awards throughout his career and his Amber series was his main work. Known for having a very flippant and humourous tone in his books, especially his later ones. With a way of making big ideas grandoise and goofy, while still retaining some of the seriousness in them, a lot like Douglas Adams. The Amber series begins with a book called: Nine Princes in Amber and the series as I have mentioned it is actually two seperate series of five books. Each series dealing with a different protagonist. The series begins with a man waking up in a hospital to find out his family is paying to keep him hospitalized and comatose there. He follows clues that lead him to believe he is one of the Princes of a alternate world called Amber, and is in line for the throne, hence him being removed from the situation. From a fantasy tone, the books slowly delves into a sci-fi tone as the reader begins to realize the nature of the planes of existence, yet it gets incresingly political as the families fight over control. You can get the books as a whole in either The Chronicles of Amber which has the first five, or The Great Book of Amber which has all ten. The universe he created spawned more fan fiction and even an RPG that was played online for a time I believe.