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goteam

Stuff and randomness

Jul 26, 2003 17:00

So lately it seems like everything I read is sad: currently it's Kelly's copy of Stone Butch Blues, before that it was a reread of the Dark Tower series, because Book 5 (The Wolves of Calla) is coming out this year or I'm going to go seriously Misery on Stephen King's ass. To counter this trend and try to win back the feeling that there's hope for ( Read more... )

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chocolatesmudge July 27 2003, 06:30:27 UTC

Waffles make the world go round, Tracy.

Howard Zinn for light reading? Hmm.

chocolatesmudge July 27 2003, 06:30:52 UTC

Check out my new icon! (I had to show it off somewhere.)

goteam July 27 2003, 23:17:12 UTC

Very cute. I've been thinking I should make me a new icon sometime... maybe a picture of me with my fab new haircut.

kuddliphish July 27 2003, 23:55:29 UTC

Terry Pratchett is always good for a light read. If you haven't read Good Omens then you should. It is by Niel Gaiman and Terry Pretchett and is really delightful. I find Pratchett a little too bizarrely fluffy sometimes but I think Gaiman managed to keep the silliness under control.

Gregory Keyes and Steven Brust are my two favorite fantasy authors so I always plug them when people ask for reading suggestions. Keyes does really neat world creation stuff (I believe that his background is in anthropology) and Brust does stuff with voice that I want to learn to do. His narrators are always characters themselves even in primarily third person POV books. Louis McMaster Bujold is also really good. She does sci-fi instead of fantasy and is amazing when it comes to believable melodrama. If you want specific titles of favorites I can give them to you, but I figure if you're going to the library it's easier to just have author names.

Paula Volsky dmyersta July 29 2003, 17:24:41 UTC

I really liked the Curse of the Witch Queen novel that she wrote. It is self-contained, light hearted and in the style of Talking with Dragons, Searching for Dragons etc. which were also books I liked, though I can't remember their author. :-)