I'll second the Charles DeLint recommendation, although I've found myself preferring his short fiction for the most part - I like his longer works, but something about his short stories resonates better with me. I also liked The Little Country. Kind of a story within a story, lots of music talk.
I gave you Lamb by Christopher Moore, and I could recommend Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Practical Demonkeeping from his other works. Very funny, but often thought provoking - Island for example, deals with Micronesia and the idea of cargo cults and organ harvesting, Lust Lizard with the idea of psychiatrists who medicate their patients without necessarily listening to them, and Demonkeeping about faith.
Dan, Colin, and I have been reading a series called The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher - kind of detective novel with a wizard as the lead, told in first person, very funny, interesting to see a series done with a male lead (since a lot of the works that are similar are written by women and have a female lead). The first book in that series is called Storm Front.
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Date: 2008-06-12 06:29 pm (UTC)I gave you Lamb by Christopher Moore, and I could recommend Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Practical Demonkeeping from his other works. Very funny, but often thought provoking - Island for example, deals with Micronesia and the idea of cargo cults and organ harvesting, Lust Lizard with the idea of psychiatrists who medicate their patients without necessarily listening to them, and Demonkeeping about faith.
Dan, Colin, and I have been reading a series called The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher - kind of detective novel with a wizard as the lead, told in first person, very funny, interesting to see a series done with a male lead (since a lot of the works that are similar are written by women and have a female lead). The first book in that series is called Storm Front.