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Vivid imagery fiction - suggestions please!

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cloudsandstars

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I'm looking for suggestions for books with powerful, vivid, colorful imagery. I don't necessarily enjoy overly flowery language, but I do love books that seem to "put me there." Reading is a form of escapism for me, and there's just nothing like a vibrant place to go to at the end of the day.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance! :)
 
Weaveworld, by Clive Barker. It's an excellent fantasy novel because of the imagery. I've never read anything that sparked my imagination as much as this book.
 
If Joyce's Ulysses scares you (it terrifies me), you could try The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, The Preservationist by David Maine, anything by Rose Tremain or Tracy Chevalier, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, or Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan. (This last is a Pakistani novelist whose book is coming out in the US in October. I bought it in London this summer and it's bloody brilliant, as they say over there.)

Actually quite a lot of those Indian/Pakistani writers are pretty imagery-laden. Must be those sultry monsoon summers...
 
Dune by Frank Herbert was quite good at this. The descriptions of the underground lakes were superb!

Cathy
 
Interesting, Clive Barker's Weaveworld is the only one of his works that I've put down halfway through and forgotten about - on two occasions. Will probably try again soon just to get it out of the way.

An author who I would recommend is Caitlin R. Kiernan - her writing is dark yet lyrical.
 
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