At Play In The Fields Of The Lord Of Crazy Books

[princeofcairo]

This year, since my standard DunDraCon schedule is thrown off by a Tiny Tank Meeting (which is why I'm typing this in Oakland), we hit Fields Bookstore (on Polk Street in San Francisco), pound for pound the finest occult bookshop in the English-incanting world, on the Tuesday after the cons rather than the Friday before. And thereby, like the

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[tundra_no_caps]

Hooray for books!

I spent about $350 on reading books since the year started, and my purse is crying tears of crimson red.

I meant to ask you for quite some time, if one is interested in the "True" or rather, alternate history of the world, as you write it, which 20 books would you suggest they have in their libraries, and why?

[princeofcairo]

Check the "Eliptony Core Sample" entries in this LJ from last winter, and that should get you started...

[beamjockey]

A preposterous suggestion. Nothing on Livejournal is read by anyone more than twelve hours after it's written.

(I quite enjoyed your Eliptony Core Sample series, by the way.)

[tundra_no_caps]

Not true.

When I add a new friend I read their last 20 entries. I also retain and reference older entries constantly.

I'll hunt the post Kenneth was referring to tomorrow morning, as I'm swamped elsewhere currently!

[tundra_no_caps]

Last winter as in last year's. Figures I checked this year's posts first.

And boy, lots of posts, much obliged! :)