Aspies For Freedom

Sooo, what books do you people read? (If you say "no books" I'm likely to get violent....rowr)

Myself, I love a lot of Young-Adult fantasy stuff like 'Tithe' by Holly Black and 'Waywalkers' by Catherine Webb. I also like stuff by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Crow/Azira for ever!). Also, Harry Potter, it's so brilliant for slashing! And Severus is rockin'

Also, I absolutely adore manga, especially  :oops:  shonen-ai (boy x boy stuff)... *cough cough*. Funnily enough, one of my favourite comics is totally not manga, it's Johnny The Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez, which I think many on here would enjoy.

Yeah, so, what's on your shelf?

Also read Terry Pratchett and Harry Potter. But am more of a Tolkien fan personally, also read things that are recommended by my friends.

Hope this makes you a little happier...

I once read the first four or so chapters of an online manga called 'Tei & Riki' and it wasn't all that bad, except it got a bit involved in the complexities of relationships towards the end, to its detriment imo (when I first found it I read it all up to where it was current at the time, somewhere in chapter 4. There's probably a lot more of it now, if it's still up)

One of my all-time favourite authors is Robert Rankin, he's amazing at coming up with seriously bizarre plots and amazing titles ('The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag' is a wonderfully obscure book!)

I used to read a lot of Terry Pratchett, but I got bored with his books a long time ago. I thought 'Moving Pictures' was an great though

I also like 'Colony' by Rob Grant. I have a signed copy of 'Incompetence' waiting to be read too.

I'll spare you my recommendations of non-fiction books

For the Tolkein/Pratchet fans I strongly reccomend more serious fantasy by Jack Vance (I'm less keen on his sci-fi). "The eyes of the overworld", and "Cugel's saga" are hilarious in an ironic kind of way, and the "Lyonesse" trilogy is right up there with "The Lord of the rings".

Some "classics" are also worth reading notably "The well of the unicorn" (I think the authors a Pratt, Fletcher) and (for a well dodgy plot but utterly beautiful prose) "The worm Ourobouros" (by R.E. Edisson?) and of course there's the Conan series by R.E. Howard; don't be put of by the "Arnie" films, there's no comparisson, Howard is remarkably erudite.

At the moment I'm reading Go M.A.D.! (Go Make a Difference 2): Over 500 Daily Ways to Save the Planet! ed. Jo Bourne & Emma Jones. Any other Aspie environmentalists out there?

Just finished reading the über-hyped Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss.

In the past, I read "Elric from Melnibone". I liked that kind of fantasy.

The latest book I've finished was called "The world of Sofia" (I translated it in my mind from Greece -> English). It was written by a Norwegian Author.

The actual English title is Sophie's World and it's by Jostein Gaarder.

I'm currently reading The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters by Marcus du Sautoy.

I really liked The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger.
I also like Herman Brusselmans (belgian author), but i don't know if he's available in other countries.

I have read some of the Sherlock Holmes stories, I think the first two are the best, really outstanding.

After that they are shorter and still good, but not as amazing. Does anyone read Agatha Christie?

I like the stories as they are easy to read, I never normally read fiction as the characters can be hard to follow.
Have you seen the films from the 1960's of the stories such as Murder at the gallop, with Margaret Rutherford, there are so good.

I find that's one benefit of reading children's classic stories, the storyline is easier to follow, but they are still great stories, without the over complexities of modern adult novels.

I've never seen one, I've seen one for adults with AS, but its written for parents, it was by Patricia Howlin.

Well she's not bad, but it was a lot of stats of suicide figures, crimes, and advice on coping for the parents.

I was very depressed after reading it.

Is it about the sneaky techniques that they use to make people by more goods?