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Just to make a topic on books, really. And I was wondering if someone knows an alternative to most of the books around which so often circles around the world of the author who is NT. It bores the hell out of me. I've been looking for books that are much more artistic and that secede from the usual "social adventures" that you find, ie drama, experiences, action, crime, intrigues, romance.... I have found a book that follows the principles of Edvard Munch (expressionistic painter), and books by very impressive people, that I guess many with Asperger can relate to. The 1800s was the era of Aspergers. But that's it.

And what kind of books do you like ?

I like science fiction, but only old science fiction. I almost never read any sort of fiction anymore, especially modern fiction, for the same reason you mentioned: I hate the "social adventures" crap (although I usually refer to it by saying that books nowadays are too extroverted). They focus too much on people and their feelings, and, worse than that, on the same types of people: white, heterosexual, usually male protagonists (especially in science fiction) etc. It makes me so irritated and disgusted, I decided to just stop aggravating myself. From time to time, I re-read my two favorites (The Time Machine and Out of The Silent Planet), but that's about it. If I see something in the library that looks totally bizarre and original, I will pick it up and take a look at it.

Jasper Fforde has an aspie trait to his books where you feel kind of at home in his strange universes...and the characters are usually too logical to be NT.

For example: There's a character in The Last Dragonslayer called Jennifer Strange who's supposed to kill a Dragon, but she questions why she has to do the task...and why fate won't change. She even questions when a Wizard says to NOT kill a dragon because he was a Wizard that pretty much killed them all off.

I don't read much new fiction, but stick with old favourites. I'm choosy about historical fiction because (as a historian) some of it just annoys me (characters with modern mindsets). One of my favourites, though, is a 19C historical novel, and the tragic hero, a brilliant young priest and intellectual, is very Aspie: Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris. I first read it in my teens, and fell for Claude even then, long before my own diagnosis: there's a sense of recognition, and I suppose I thought that, however awkward I was at social interaction, I wasn't as hopeless at it as he is.

I tend to usually read horror fiction, though not exclusively. I do enjoy the Beat generation writers, too, especially William Burroughs.

I'd recommend Joe Abercrombie's The First Law Trilogy to anyone who enjoys GoT.
The Blade Itself
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings

World of Cultivation is pretty cool. Its one of those slow burn web novels that slowly builds a massive world and if you've never read xianxia its a pretty good introduction.