i have two favors to ask

[tsuki_no_bara]

a. what are you all reading? recommend me something! i'm not a fan of urban fantasy/paranormal (so, like, no werewolves or other shifters, vampires, angels, demons, fairies, etc) but offhand i can't think of anything else i'd automatically say no to.... and i don't have an e-reader so, you know, it's gotta be something i can get in print. so

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[dear_tiger]

Books! :D I'm trying to read Middlesex, brought over from an airport, and now I'm thinking of donating it to the local library because the thing is insufferable. Apologies if you've read it and loved it or something. The flowery, poetic, would-be-purple-if-it-wasn't-so-expertly-done style is driving me nuts, and coming of age is generally not my thing. If that's your thing, the book is objectively good. AND I will now forever remember what 5-alpha reductase deficiency is, which is good because it's probably on board exams.

Okay, that was an anti-rec. Have you ever gotten around to reading Connie Willis's Blackout? We talked about it once. That was very good and not sad at all. I definitely prefer Passage but it made me bawl like a baby. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King was awesome, if you like his books. It has a wonderfully colorful female character. Also, because there are people around who haven't read Gaiman's American Gods, that book is, hands down, my absolute all-times favorite. Oh, and Neil Gaiman is about to release a new novel on the 18th of this month :D Oh! And Summer of Night by Dan Simmons is freaking awesome. It's one of those horror stories about a group of kids in a small town dealing with an old monster, and it has some of the most brilliantly-written characters I've ever seen.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i have not read blackout! but i love connie willis. and it sounds vaguely familiar but i can't remember what you said about it. >.< i have however read american gods because hasn't everyone? :D (i kind of want to wait for the ocean at the end of the lane to come out in paperback because i don't want to spend the money on a hardcover, but i have a bunch of his books in hardcover so at least it would match.) summer of night sounds almost like it could be a spielberg movie - did you see super 8? - but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[dear_tiger]

Nah, we were just talking about Connie Willis in general, and it was before I read Blackout. I promised to report back and failed! But here, reporting back: good book, still not as fabulous as Passage. You know, apparently, not everyone read American Gods! I just recently discovered a heathen on my f-list. And I'm totally with you about wanting a paperback (because I like them far better and because all of my Gaiman books except for one are paperback) but maaaan, it's a Gaiman novel! Would be torture to wait. Super 8 was something about aliens, no? Never seen it :D But Summer of Night is just a very cool horror story, if you like those.

[tsuki_no_bara]

super 8 was about a bunch of pre-teens (i think they were twelve) who are shooting a movie (on super-8 film, hence the name :D ) and witness a fantastic train wreck - and catch it on film - and then there's an alien. i liked it.