Woot! I have $60 to spend. I love Christmas. So give me your *very* *very* favorite books - any genre, except romance because I hate it.
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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I didnt' get any gift cards this year Where's your closest Borders SO?
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
Louisville. When you live in a town where the men don't shave, and the womenfolk don't either, everything is in the big city.
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edit: Wait - I forgot to add that *I* shave!!
Ok, not all that often, but gimme a break, I've got a baby.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
*listens in*
I got a $25 one and they just put a Borders in at the closest mall to me here!
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
You know, the women here don't shave either, (feminism is good), but we have a borders! If space space baby is ready for a road trip, come to Bloomington.
I have no imput on books because I rarely buy books I haven't read, I'd rather just get them from the library, so i buy cd's. I am starting to collect good books for 6 to 12 year olds though, fun being an eled major).
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
breyerchic, if you don't have any Christopher Curtis go buy his books now! They're great, and his personal story is amazing. I got to hear him speak when I was in school. The man actually worked in a factory putting doors on cars - he wrote a Newberry winner (first book!) on his breaks.
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Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
What are they about?
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
Gaal, read it, loved it, gotta signed copy of Dawn to boot. I'm glad we have another Butler fan here, though.
Kojabu, the newberry winner was The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963 , which is about a church bombing and the effects on the city and the Watson family. Sounds grim, but there's tons of humor. It's one of the few books that has ever made me laugh out loud.
*must stop micro-managing thread*
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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Hm, my very favorite books? I don't know if I can really do that, but I can tell you which ones are striking me that way right now. Some of them you've read, I'm almost positive, but there you go.
Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang David Brin's Kiln People Dan Simmon's Ilium Ursula K LeGuin's The Compass Rose Any Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Ficiton anthologies. Dozois does a fantastic job of picking out the good stuff; I've read most of these anthologies, and all of them have had a liberal dose of spectacular stories in them. George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones Octavia Butler's Wildseed Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy (you can get it bound as a single volume, these days. Maureen McHugh's Mission Child
I'll stop there, because I need to get to bed.
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
"The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963"
Wow! I read that book when I was in 4th or 5th grade! I never remembered it until now. That was the one where they thought the youngest sister was in the church bombing and they thought she died, but they found her after? Oh man, I have to reread that.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Oh I do have The Watson's Go to Birmingham, 1963" it's fantastic. I'll have to look up his other books.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Well right now I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and it's so enjoyable that I'd have to recommend that. There was a thread about it some time ago either here or on Sakeriver, I forget exactly.
Game of Thrones, Hart's Hope (if you haven't already), Assassin's Apprentice, Shogun, are some things I'd recommend.
I'm very bad with listing this sort of thing. I have so many favorite books and a very few that consistently stand out above the rest. Usually my fancies change from year to year, and I kind of forget to mention the ones I thought were awesome last year (and still do), but am not really thinking about this year.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I liked "One Hand Clapping" by Anthony Burgess.
*goes to look in box of books*
"A Clergyman's Daughter" by Orwell.
-pH
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
*pout*
It appears that many members of the Hatrack community have become rather stingy with their book recommendations.
However, thanks to those who replied - I will be checking several of the ones you suggested out. Now hopefully I'll get to Borders this weekend!
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Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Here's a recommendation:
Night, by Elie Wiesel. The only book that ever made me cry. It's a book that's set in the Holocaust. Very sad, but an amazing book.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
Gaal, are you lookin' at my bookshelves? Agreed - most excellant book.
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Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
"Any Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Ficiton anthologies"
(I hope you don't mind if I borrow your thread for a minute, Space) Noemon, did you ever read the 21st collection? I bought it awhile ago and read the first story. I didn't like it ata ll and I was immediately turned off of the anthology. I've never picked it up since then. If you've read this one, can you point me to a couple of the better stories in it so I could get back into it?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Hmmmm. I would suggest:
"Idlewild" by Neil Sagan ( I think, its a Sagan. You could probably find it without the first name.)
"Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Heh. Sorry. Hmmm, I'm looking at my bookshelf and I'm trying to think of something you probably haven't read. Most of my stuff is famous SF works that you've almost definitely read. I'll look for something...
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Its NICK Sagan. I was close. But his book Idlewild is very good.
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Where's your closest Borders SO?
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I'm glad we have another Butler fan here, though.