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stirimagination

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Jul 17, 2006 16:48

I got a $50 gift card for Borders.

But I don't know what to get for it.

So people, recommend books/movies for me (give me a little description, too, if you can) so I have an idea of what to get!

Edit:
I bought stuff for school. SOOO cute.

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queenitsy July 17 2006, 22:40:59 UTC

What genres do you like?

My generic recommendation for people in fandom, if they haven't read it, is Magic's Pawn (and Promise, and Price) by Mercedes Lackey; thus far, no one has disliked them.

only_a_dream July 17 2006, 22:54:27 UTC

may I suggest the first season of "Coupling"? :) although, you may want to get that off of amazon.com or somewhere else where it won't be $28.

Here are a few suggestions, with summaries taken from amazon.com:

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Henry De Tamble, a rather dashing librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago, finds himself unavoidably whisked around in time. He disappears from a scene in, say, 1998 to find himself suddenly, usually without his clothes, which mysteriously disappear in transit, at an entirely different place 10 years earlier-or later. During one of these migrations, he drops in on beautiful teenage Clare Abshire, an heiress in a large house on the nearby Michigan peninsula, and a lifelong passion is born. The problem is that while Henry's age darts back and forth according to his location in time, Clare's moves forward in the normal manner, so the pair are often out of sync. But such is the author's tenderness with the characters, and the determinedly ungimmicky way in which she ( ... )

jack_cole July 18 2006, 01:24:43 UTC

DVD box set, Season 1, of a BBC show called MI5. Cute brits, spying, more brits, more spying, love intrigues, what more could you want?

firefaerie914 July 18 2006, 04:02:02 UTC

I have a dozens of suggestions as books and movies makes up 90% of what I spend my paychecks on ( ... )

falco_conlon July 18 2006, 21:36:04 UTC

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien: It's about Vietnam so it can be really harsh, but it's one of those books I think everyone should be required to read. It's a bunch of short stories and they are beautiful and heart breaking and just fucking amazing. Even if you don't buy it, just read it. Just. Fucking. Amazing ( ... )