re: Movie Board Recommendations: Books (UPDATE: Post Stormlight Book 1)

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If you liked Gaiman's other works (I saw that you read them), The Ocean at the End of the Lane is fantastic. Gaiman is, in my opinion, the best writer of fantastical realism/magical realism, currently in existence and is one of the best writers, period, of the last half century.

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I would also highly, HIGHLY recommend anything by Michael Chabon, but particularly The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which won him the Pulitzer. He is very much literary fiction, rather than genre fiction, but his stories are multi-layered, complex, and beautiful. Kavalier and Clay chronicles two jews in the comic book industry at the start of the industry's first great emergence. I would also recommend Wonder Boys, which coincidentally is a solid movie. It is the story of a creative writing professor who wrote a fantastic first novel and has been tinkering with his second for nigh on 10 years.

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