What was the most unusual (for you) book you ever read? Either because the book itself was completely from out in left field somewhere, or was a genre you never read, or was the only book available on a long flight… whatever? What (not counting school textbooks, though literature read for classes counts) was furthest outside your usual comfort zone/familiar territory?
And, did you like it? Did it stretch your boundaries? Did you shut it with a shudder the instant you were done? Did it make you think? Have nightmares? Kick off a new obsession?
Hmmm. I don’t think that I’ve read anything too out of the ordinary lately. (Maybe that’s a bad sign. I should probably read more out of my usual genres.) The book that really opened my eyes to a wider reading world was Roger Zelazny’s Great book of Amber. At the time I was a teenager getting a bit bored by epic fantasy and I had no idea that fantasy could be something else. So, Amber was like a bomb that rekindled my love for the genre. Ever since that I’ve gone to the way of different fantasy and haven’t regretted it. Oh, I read the occasional epic when they catch my eye.
I’ve also had to read some “Finnish classics” at school and it was pretty clear that they really aren’t for me.
September 26, 2008 at 10:09 am
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September 26, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I read a great many genres. And I would like to explore lot more!
Booking through different