Recommend me some books which capture the pure joy of reading

[Arrian]

Read some Steven Brust. Vlad Taltos

Jhereg (1983)
Yendi (1984)
Teckla (1987)
Taltos (1988)
Phoenix (1990)
Athyra (1993)
Orca (1996)
Dragon (1998)
Issola (2001)
Dzur (2006)

-Arrian

[Varwnos]

You could try some of these:

-The warlords, by Junichiro Tanizaki. It is a novel about the samurai, by one of the most famous japanese writers of the 20th century. It quickly becomes a sado-masochistic affair.

-Since you mentioned that you want something which will make you feel, you could try another japanese novelist, probably the most famous one, Yukio Mishima. "The sound of the waves" i think is the title of the novel of his i have in my collection. I have not finished reading it, but he is a lot more into describing emotions and environments than thoughts

-'Horror' literature ussually is full of emotion, at least those stories that actually work, which is a bit rare in this genre. So i would suggest that you read something by Guy de Maupassant (la horla, he?, terror etc), by Mahen (the white people, inmost light etc), Poe (tell-tale heart, murders in the rue morgue), Lovecraft (the music of Erich Zann) or in case you have never heard of this story you could try finding an e-text of Jacobs' 'the monkey's paw'

[Elok]

I suppose you've already read The Three Musketeers and/or The Count of Monte Cristo? They were originally published as serials in newspapers, so you know they're pretty frivolous. Still rather fun, if implausible.

[Ari Rahikkala]

If you handled your high-school physics well, I recommend you try Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust. Just remember that it was written before anyone had actually put a man on the moon, and you'll find that it's a very enjoyable light read. I could easily stay ahead of the story most of the time with simple intuition about the properties of moondust.

Oh, and... aneeshm, did you ever play SMAC much? If you did, it might be a good idea to visit Chiron Archives - there's some really good stuff in there. The Wizard of Chiron is easily my favourite.

[Laertes]

Martin Cruz Smith has written some great police novels around a detective called Arkady Renko, mostly set in Russia:

Gorky Park
Polar Star
Red Square
Havana Bay
Wolves Eat Dogs

Pride and Prejudice is a funny, easy read, if you can put up with 19th Century middle class English mores!

[Vanguard]

P.G. Wodehouse, Any of the Jeeves stories.

Donald Westlake, Any of the Dortmunder novels.