top 5 - end of days, throw in your fav sci-fi and your favorite great group of friends read

[Katie]

I prefer 300-400 pages < 600. I don't like overly descript novels. This probably sounds weird, but I could care less about beautiful writing. I like to read a story through dialogue - pick up on world building and character development as the story progresses. Naturally, I like first person. Third person isn't a deal breaker - just not as fun to read for me. I am not very big into time travel. I can't follow along very well...I read a lot at night. I need windshield reading...brain candy. I can't do boo-hoo'ers. Nothing depressing. I liked the Tomorrow Series, and Angelfall by Susan Ee. YA is okay, but I like adult better sometimes.

Anything else - I'm good!

[karen, future RA queen]

oh, i don;t have time for this right now,and i am just seeing it, but i will bump it!! BUMP!

[Peter]

Hello fellow bumpee...

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

is easy, some brilliant dialogue, laugh-out-loud sometimes, and I admit I do read it again every year or so and are therefore biased, but it seems to fulfil your criteria. I liked Tomorrow series also.

Now if someone will just give me some advice....

[Robert]

End of days? As in post apocalypse/dystopia type stuff?

I rather liked Bumped. Easy & fun first person story. If you want to go a bit darker, try The Marbury Lens It's very original and imaginative.

[Katie]

Peter I will add that title. Karen... You had suggested on the jellicoe road...so cross this request off your list, friend. Thanks for your suggestions.

[Katie]

Robert wrote: "End of days? As in post apocalypse/dystopia type stuff?

I rather liked Bumped. Easy & fun first person story. If you want to go a bit darker, try The Marbury Lens It's very original and imagi..."

I will look into bumped...that sounds different. I liked the Marbury world it had some twists in it that I didn't expect...if I remember correctly I enjoyed it when the main character was in "Marbury" rather than real life.

[Jenna]

What about The Handmaid's Tale or The Children of Men? Two of my favourite dystopians. They are a bit bleak but I think that comes with the genre.

[Katie]

I appreciate the recommendations, Belle!

[Cynthisa]

You might really get a kick out of the "Death's Head" series. Wise-ass ex-Legionairre from back-of-nowhere planet shakes up galactic politics. Told in first-person. Very s.f.-noire. Funny as hell. Much deeper than you'd expect at first glance. Great books!

[scherzo♫]

End of days: The City, Not Long After
Mix of 1st and 3rd person POV, set in San Francisco, some magic realism.

Some fav sci-fi off the top of my head:
Hellspark wonderful female MC, diverse aliens
Native Tongue women overcoming male oppression
Hyperion slightly bleak with fascinating characters
Forty Thousand in Gehenna diverse human cultures develop on an isolated planet amidst aliens
David Brin's Uplift Saga has some LOL scenes
- Sundiver
- Startide Rising
- The Uplift War

[Erin]

You might check out Into the Forest by Jean Hegland - adult post-apocalyptic which is adult but leans a bit YA.