Obscure but good books.

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This is a thread for recommending good reads which you think people would otherwise never encounter. Maybe you've never heard of the author, maybe you looked at at and thought "no thanks", but then read it and thought "actually...".

I'm stuck for something to read, I've covered most of the classics at this point. I'll go first:


David Graham
Down to a Sunless Sea
ISBN: 0709178360

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It's about the flight crew of a future (past by now) 5 engined extended 747 in an oil starved world as WW3 breaks out in Nuclear fashion.

I found it in a box of old books I claimed when my school library was clearing out; also found my copy of catch-22 and the 1st 2 in the hitch-hikers guide series in there.

Sounds a bit of a tired and grungy concept I know, but it's quite gripping. Does leave you with the impression that the author was writing a film in places though.
 
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Best obscure book I've ever read is "Swan Song" by Robert R. McCammon. It's like a vastly superior version of Stephen King's "The Stand".
 
Out by Natsuo Kirino

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Happens to be one of the best books I have ever read. Not sure if it should be classed as obscure though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_(novel)
 
Oblomov by Goncharov


Not many people have heard of this work before.
It's an excellent work and I think most people who want to read something beautifully written and who enjoy 19th Century literature/ Russian Classics will love this work.
 
Meridian said:
Assuming you mean the original one (16th Century IIRC?) then I don't need to. And yes, I've read it - it's turgid paranoid nonsense.


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Yes I do mean the original one. And yes it's turgid paranoid nonsense. That's one of the reasons why it's such good fun to read.

:)
 
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, it's not necessarily unknown but I haven't met too many people who've read it which is unfortunate as it's very well written satire.
 
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The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, it's not necessarily unknown but I haven't met too many people who've read it which is unfortunate as it's very well written satire.
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Read that as well (OK, Smug Mode off for a bit).


From SF: "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis

From Mainstream: "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl.



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Meridian said:
Read that as well (OK, Smug Mode off for a bit).
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I'll have to try harder to read more obscure books. I'd still say not enough people have read it though.

Another one that is good but I'd expect you've read is Dr Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb by Peter George. It's the book of the film screenplay by Peter George (amongst others) from a short story written by Peter George - so for those still following he's made money out of this single story three times over, money for old rope as it were.
 
'The Moviegoer' by Walter Percy. Great book (why does it have to be obscure? This is way better than some drowsy Jane Austin classic)

'First Light' by Geoffrey Wellum. I don't normally read war books but this is brilliant.
 
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