Book meme: I get behind!
Days 6,7, 8 and 9.
Day 06 - Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time
* A Day in the Night of America by Kevin Coyne (a look at contemporary graveyard shift workers in the US, highlighting the panoply of professions that encompasses)(Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaascinating for history geeks)
* A Superior Death by Nevada Barr (my favorite park ranger mystery so far)
* Flashpoint by George LaFountaine (novelization of the 1984 Kris Kristofferson movie of the same name. Taut and bleak desert noir)
Day 07 - Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise
Ooh, good one.
I think for me, it's the trope of the evil LGBT character. As in, in a book full of straight people, the one LGBT character will turn out to be the villain. Bonus points if the author goes to great pains to point out that it's *because* of the character's LGBT status that they turned out evil. Which still happens way too much for my comfort.
Day 08 - A book everyone should read at least once
Which I didn't answer, because I don't tell people what to do. You've got a brain, you tell *me* what you should be reading.
Day 09 - Best scene ever
I think for me, and I've been tossing the question around all day, it comes down to:
Father Chains sat on the roof of the House of Perelandro, staring down at the astonishingly arrogant fourteen-year-old that had grown out of the little orphan he'd purchased so many years before from the Thiefmaker of Shades' Hill.
'Someday, Locke Lamora,' he said, 'someday you're going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I'm still alive to see it.'
'Oh please,' said Locke. 'It'll never happen.'
It comes at a great time in the book to always bring to mind all the ways those statements come to pass. It's a beautiful pause in the middle of all the chaos of the rest of the book and what comes after. It's *perfect*.
Day 06 - Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time
* A Day in the Night of America by Kevin Coyne (a look at contemporary graveyard shift workers in the US, highlighting the panoply of professions that encompasses)(Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaascinating for history geeks)
* A Superior Death by Nevada Barr (my favorite park ranger mystery so far)
* Flashpoint by George LaFountaine (novelization of the 1984 Kris Kristofferson movie of the same name. Taut and bleak desert noir)
Day 07 - Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise
Ooh, good one.
I think for me, it's the trope of the evil LGBT character. As in, in a book full of straight people, the one LGBT character will turn out to be the villain. Bonus points if the author goes to great pains to point out that it's *because* of the character's LGBT status that they turned out evil. Which still happens way too much for my comfort.
Day 08 - A book everyone should read at least once
Which I didn't answer, because I don't tell people what to do. You've got a brain, you tell *me* what you should be reading.
Day 09 - Best scene ever
I think for me, and I've been tossing the question around all day, it comes down to:
Father Chains sat on the roof of the House of Perelandro, staring down at the astonishingly arrogant fourteen-year-old that had grown out of the little orphan he'd purchased so many years before from the Thiefmaker of Shades' Hill.
'Someday, Locke Lamora,' he said, 'someday you're going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I'm still alive to see it.'
'Oh please,' said Locke. 'It'll never happen.'
It comes at a great time in the book to always bring to mind all the ways those statements come to pass. It's a beautiful pause in the middle of all the chaos of the rest of the book and what comes after. It's *perfect*.