QotD, pt. 2, attempt 2
Jan. 4th, 2006 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchildCan I point something out? In my last post, I said, reccomend a book. To me, that indicates singular.
I know y'all love to read like I do, but there's no way in hell I can read a list that long. Even reading nice and quick. Please pick one. If someone else reccomends one you thought of, feel free to recc a different one, and/or give me more reasons to read the first one.
I love you guys, but that's a very very overwhelming list. Especially since few of you included things like, reasons I should read them, or synopses.
It's okay if you don't have a copy to lend out. That's what Powell's is for. If I can't find one used, then I might bug you. :^)
I know y'all love to read like I do, but there's no way in hell I can read a list that long. Even reading nice and quick. Please pick one. If someone else reccomends one you thought of, feel free to recc a different one, and/or give me more reasons to read the first one.
I love you guys, but that's a very very overwhelming list. Especially since few of you included things like, reasons I should read them, or synopses.
It's okay if you don't have a copy to lend out. That's what Powell's is for. If I can't find one used, then I might bug you. :^)
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Date: 2006-01-05 06:39 am (UTC)I'll send you my latest copy of Watership Down if ya want. After myself it's been through 4 people since I bought it for 49 cents at Goodwill.
It's my favorite book ever and I'm not ashamed to admit it still makes me cry when Bigwig gets caught in the wire, cheer when Woundwort gets his fucking just desserts, and when Hazel...
well, you know.
Seriously. I'm ditching all my literary creds here and saying "hey, Watership Down is the fucking shit and I don't care if you had ta read it in 7th grade - it's really really good."
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Date: 2006-01-05 06:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-05 06:51 am (UTC)You really haven't read it?
There really isn't a story of loyalty, commitment, and love against all odds like told in this book.
You'll soon forget that the story is about rabbits..
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:09 am (UTC)I completely agree. I read it once in seventh grade (or thereabouts) when I unexpectedly found it on my parents' bookshelf among all the science fiction. The story stuck with me. I found a copy of it on the AT during my thruhike, and read it again. It's a very moving story, insightful and thematically strong.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-05 07:19 am (UTC)It's strange thinking that it's a story about rabbits. I wonder if the author deliberately choose a fluffy subject just to shake up his readers even more.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:42 am (UTC)When I read the first book three or four times I was left with this feeling of "and then what????"
I finally ebayed the sequel after getting my latest copy, and felt satisfied as I'd always been broken up with the epilogue to Watership Down... with the Hazel thing.
With the long-awaited sequel, we see the continuing adventures of el-ahrairah along with our heroes fiver, bigwig, hyzenthlay, and hazel...
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:19 am (UTC)Ma'am, it's just that good. Send me your address.
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:37 pm (UTC)Like Stelpa said a while back "I think I like Lovecraft's writing better when he doesn't". I enjoy the Cthulu Mythos as a concept and many other writers have used it to good effect, so if you mean it's got that flavor to it only written by someone who knows when to stop rambling on about how 'the missing sock in his load of laundry gnawed at his mind. The terrible dread of the absent garment formed a void the sucked whirlpool-like, threatening to siphon his sanity off into whatever twisted space the precious wool had departed to.' then I'd probably be interested.
;P
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Date: 2006-01-05 06:52 am (UTC)The Dreaming Place, by Charles De Lint (very tiny)
The Onion Girl, by Charles De Lint
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
Anything Sandman, plus The Book of Magic, by His Lord And Master
Read like the wind.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:01 am (UTC)The first three are magic and soul food. The first is *really* short, the third is not too long and the second is regular length.
The fourth and fifth are Geek Creds, plus way-seriously good. The fifth book should be read by every young woman, and every guy raising a young girl who wants her to have a will of her own.
The sixth is just...a really good idea. Lots of comics, great stories, magic...
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:24 am (UTC)Sandman is a series, isn't it? When I saw teh comic at Powell's it didn't appeal to me visually.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:28 am (UTC)The Diamond Age might be a better choice for you.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:41 am (UTC)Like that huge floating thing. W.T.F.!?!
It's been a while, but I still remember that throwing me off.
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Date: 2006-01-05 03:38 pm (UTC)It is certainly possible you would like Diamond Age but not Snow Crash, but it doesn't seem like good odds to me.
I also recommend Charles De Lint, both his novels and short stories. Axiom's suggestions are good places to start. His books are mostly urban fantasy set in Canada. Lots of art, music, and magic. He has some great characters. He write a lot about artists and/or people at the fringe of society, such as street people. His works are both light and dark at the same time, somehow.
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Date: 2006-01-05 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-06 02:16 am (UTC)If you want fantasy: "Jack The Giant Killer" by Charles De Lint. Modern-day fantasy written by one of the fantasy greats, an absolute MUST.
If you want humor: Anything by Terry Pratchet. Anything. I mean it. Just pick one.
If you want sci fi: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card - low on the technobabble, high on the emotion and interest, nifty nifty characters.
If you want Tacky Romance (that's actually worth reading): I would suggest either Warprize, whose author I can't remember and which is fantasyhistory, or Tiger's Eye, which is a bit more realistic history and whose author I also can't remember. Go me. T.T
If you want anything else, I'm fresh out of advice at the moment, and am going back to reading the new Pratchett books I bought over the holidays. *nod*