Hi! Can someone recommend a book that mixes tropes in an original way?
Less Vampire vs Werewolf and more Mafia boss teams with rival gang to save the Faeries from the Zombies. Something zany, out-of-the-ordinary. I love Tom Robbins and Douglas Adams if that helps at all.
The Garrett P.I. series by Glen Cook (first book: Sweet Silver Blues) …Detective/Fantasy/Humor
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The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Amazing story. Beautiful prose. The twists are unpredictable. For a bonus reading experience, locate all of the “un-chapters” that exist (or once existed) in unexpected places in the real world.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Unlike anything else you will have ever read. Feels like a found artifact rather than a novel. Defies genre categories.
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Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. This book predates “meta verse” anything and NFTs, but pretty much hits the nail on the head in predicting them. It’s kind of Matrix meets mafia with an 80s skateboard sub-culture vibe.
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I don’t know if meddling kids by Edgar Cantero counts
In 1977, four teenagers and a dog—Andy (the tomboy), Nate (the nerd), Kerri (the bookworm), Peter (the jock), and Tim (the Weimaraner)—solved the mystery of Sleepy Lake. The trail of an amphibian monster terrorizing the quiet town of Blyton Hills leads the gang to spend a night in Deboën Mansion and apprehend a familiar culprit: a bitter old man in a mask.
Now, in 1990, the twenty-something former teen detectives are lost souls. Plagued by night terrors and Peter’s tragic death, the three survivors have been running from their demons. When the man they apprehended all those years ago makes parole, Andy tracks him down to confirm what she’s always known—they got the wrong guy. Now she’ll need to get the gang back together and return to Blyton Hills to find out what really happened in 1977, and this time, she’s sure they’re not looking for another man in a mask.
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You might want to track down Robert Asprin’s “MYTH Adventures” books (first one’s “Another Fine Myth”). It’s about dimension-hopping, genre-savvy fantasy-crew having pun-drenched adventures.
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_The Shambling Guide to New York City_ by Mur Lafferty. A human girl gets a job for a company that writes travel guides for monsters.
_Year Zero_ by Rob Reid. Aliens have discovered our music, but only after making billions upon billions of copies of all our music, they’ve discovered our copyright laws, under which they now owe us, well, everything.
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Y/A Eion Colfer, Artemis Fowl series
Perdido Street Station was that book for me.
The Garrett P.I. series by Glen Cook (first book: Sweet Silver Blues) …Detective/Fantasy/Humor
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Amazing story. Beautiful prose. The twists are unpredictable. For a bonus reading experience, locate all of the “un-chapters” that exist (or once existed) in unexpected places in the real world.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Unlike anything else you will have ever read. Feels like a found artifact rather than a novel. Defies genre categories.
Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. This book predates “meta verse” anything and NFTs, but pretty much hits the nail on the head in predicting them. It’s kind of Matrix meets mafia with an 80s skateboard sub-culture vibe.
I don’t know if meddling kids by Edgar Cantero counts
In 1977, four teenagers and a dog—Andy (the tomboy), Nate (the nerd), Kerri (the bookworm), Peter (the jock), and Tim (the Weimaraner)—solved the mystery of Sleepy Lake. The trail of an amphibian monster terrorizing the quiet town of Blyton Hills leads the gang to spend a night in Deboën Mansion and apprehend a familiar culprit: a bitter old man in a mask.
Now, in 1990, the twenty-something former teen detectives are lost souls. Plagued by night terrors and Peter’s tragic death, the three survivors have been running from their demons. When the man they apprehended all those years ago makes parole, Andy tracks him down to confirm what she’s always known—they got the wrong guy. Now she’ll need to get the gang back together and return to Blyton Hills to find out what really happened in 1977, and this time, she’s sure they’re not looking for another man in a mask.
You might want to track down Robert Asprin’s “MYTH Adventures” books (first one’s “Another Fine Myth”). It’s about dimension-hopping, genre-savvy fantasy-crew having pun-drenched adventures.
_The Shambling Guide to New York City_ by Mur Lafferty. A human girl gets a job for a company that writes travel guides for monsters.
_Year Zero_ by Rob Reid. Aliens have discovered our music, but only after making billions upon billions of copies of all our music, they’ve discovered our copyright laws, under which they now owe us, well, everything.