[ SECRET POST #3204 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3204 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[dreemyweird]

*rubs hands* let's do this.

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South. An awesome Victorian lady who wrote this novel about a conflict of different British mentalities - Southern (countryside) and Northern (urban, industrial). She's amazing at describing the Victorians' daily life, and the moral messages in her writing are very ambiguous and subtle.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Maybe you've read it; if not, do. It's a very mature book full of gentle melancholy pondering the self-contradictory aspects of human nature. Also, a ten-foot-tall dude who looks like a zombie and talks like Shakespeare.

Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx. She's a very charismatic and sarcastic Russian lady; The Slynx is a hilarious macabre dystopia with strong undertones of the Soviet realities. The action takes place in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion.

While we're at that, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby. This is a collection of modern horror fairy tales, if you're into this kind of thing.

Agatha Christie is pretty awesome!! I definitely recommend the Poirot and the Miss Marple series <3 For really good plot twists, see: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Murder on the Orient Express.

[kallanda_lee]

that's a pretty great rec list, thanks!

[sarillia]

I'll second The Slynx. You're the first person I've come across around here who knows it.

I also adore Frankenstein and hate what that sensitive, eloquent creature got turned into by pop culture.

I'll add some others here too that ayrt will hopefully look at.

Patricia Highsmith wrote a lot of good suspense. Daphne du Maurier is most famous for Rebecca, which I love, but has a lot of other great writing too. Amelie Nothomb is another favorite of mine. My introduction to her was Hygiene and the Assassin. I also like Angela Carter. I happen to love Victorian sensation novels and Mary Elizabeth Braddon is a good place to start if you're interested in checking those out. Octavia Butler has written some of my favorite sci-fi.
I like Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Isabel Allende for historical fiction.

[dreemyweird]

Probably because I'm Russian :) I must say I'm pleasantly surprised anyone in the West knows it, and I'm very glad you like it! Tolstaya's one of my favourite writers.

Thank you for the recs, too - I've read almost none of the things you've mentioned.

[sarillia]

I haven't gotten around to looking at her other writing yet, so I'll have to do that. Are there any in particular you'd recommend?

[dreemyweird]

Her short stories are very nice! I think the English collection is called "The White Wall".

Her story about what would've happened if Pushkin survived his duel with Dantes and met Lenin is absolutely hilarious.