Book recommendations?

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" 
<alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
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For something truly current, I recommend Neil Gaiman. Unlike people
like Frank O'Hara or Jamaica Kincaid, both of whom have respect within
literary circles, Gaiman is completely underrated there (probably
because of his status as a scifi/fantasy author). He's best known for
Sandman, which is entirely brilliant but shall languish in relative
obscurity thanks to the fact that it's a graphic novel, but the man
also has some truly great novels under his belt (but, um, let's ignore
that whole Beowulf movie fiasco).
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Alla:

Oh I so second Gaiman's novels recommendations, all of them in fact. 
Funnily though I did not read Sandman. 

And yes Beowulf LALALALALALAL what Beowulf. It never happened, am 
telling you never happened.


I of course also recommend my beloved Guy Gavriel Kay, but I won't 
bore anybody with my beloved Arbonne, I will instead recommend 
dulogy "Sarantine Mosaic".

It is historical fiction, even though it is still called fantasy, I 
guess for that tiny amount of magic, which is there as we recently 
deciphered only to make a point, a parallel to main storyline. It is 
such subtle storytelling, the characters are so very multilayered, 
that I rarely see such great character based writing in some authors, 
who are supposedly write "realistic" fiction.