Comments | thefourthvine: Slashy Awards 144: Strephon's a Member of Parliament!

thefourthvine

Slashy Awards 144: Strephon's a Member of Parliament!

Jun 04, 2006 00:34

I've been trying del.icio.us for a while, and I've come to the conclusion - well, it's nice to have all my bookmarks resident on the web. And it's nice to be able to put everything up there. But - well, okay. It makes me not want to do actual recommendations sets, and that's kind of why I have this journal, and it's the thing I love most. So that ( Read more... )

stargate: atlantis, firefly, [rec theme: crossovers], farscape, angel, stargate: sg-1, crossovers, dcu

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lwdagreat June 4 2006, 08:35:10 UTC

I don't know if these can be really compared to actuarial tables, as they're humor (although non-fiction) but I've really enjoyed Dave Gorman's "Are You Dave Gorman?" (the story of one man's quest to find all the other Dave Gormans of the world) & his "Googlewhack Adventure" (totally hilarious - this can also be obtained on DVD and should be viewed for the pie charts alone. Also, who among us hasn't woken up drunk in an airport with a plane ticket to a city we hate on the other side of the planet and no idea how we got there. And then decided to go and while there, contact a total stranger with whom you once exchanged an e-mail). Also Danny Wallace's Join Me (the story of how a personal ad created a thousands-strong cult of people with no actual cause ( ... )

thefourthvine June 4 2006, 18:35:38 UTC

All those books sound fabulous, and I'm only sad that my library system doesn't have them. To Amazon I go.

And, ooo! thanks for the animeindepth link; Bleach and FMA are definitely proving to be the winners of the Rec Something for Best Beloved to Watch category. Must read up on this further.

*clicks with joy*

lwdagreat June 9 2006, 18:32:28 UTC

I just remembered this...FMA is playing on Cartoon Network & is on sale in some places, but Bleach isn't yet - if you're interested in it, all 83 episodes so far are available via torrent at http://yhbt.mine.nu/t/

So if you do decide to go with Bleach, that's the easiest way to get it. Sorry I didn't mention that earlier. :)

cupidsbow June 4 2006, 08:36:11 UTC

I can't remember whether you already know about my multi-fandom rec comm or not: rec_room. I think there's over 900 recs in there, although about half of them are SGA.

thefourthvine June 4 2006, 18:38:05 UTC

Oooo! No, I totally didn't know about rec_room. Thanks for pointing me there! (If there was a fandom-wide competition for "Fan Most Likely to Be the Last to Know," I would be a strong contender. Although I might end up losing to a fan in a coma, or one spending a year in a distant, internet-less location.)

cupidsbow June 5 2006, 09:17:06 UTC

Noted :) Although, to be fair, I've never pimped rec_room on a major comm, so it's quite reasonable for you not to have known about it.

While I'm here, it occurs to me that you probably haven't seen my rec the reccers listing either. That should keep you going for a minute or two. Happy reading.

anoneknewmoose June 4 2006, 08:37:59 UTC

Non-fiction book recs: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and its sequel Pigs in Heaven (I also recommend The Poisonwood Bible). Re-reading them now and still love them.

On an entirely different shelf in the bookstore, naominovik's Temeraire series, which are (to quote the mod of the fan community) an "AU historical regency naval fiction" series. Absolutely fantastic: well-researched, fleshed out characters that feel real, funny but appropriate scenes, and a Jacobin dragon. In the Napoleonic wars.

anoneknewmoose June 4 2006, 08:39:59 UTC

Wait. Sorry. For some reason I...thought non-fiction meant fiction. Um, sorry about that; they're great books, but definitely fiction, and obviously this means I should go to bed.

thefourthvine June 4 2006, 22:04:50 UTC

This comment made my heart swell with love, because - have you seen Sports Night? Danny at one point has a discussion in which he confuses "secular" and "non-secular," and this gave me a sudden happy memory of that scene.

Oh, Sports Night. How I love thee.

*glows*

But, in any case - hmmm. See, I am much, much pickier about fiction than I have any right to be. My ratio tends to be about 9:1 non-fiction to fiction. But that doesn't mean I don't read it at all. Kingsolver, hmmm?

*considers*

*has epiphany*

Wow. I just realized that I've always been stupidly biased against The Bean Trees because the title makes me think of The Milagro Beanfield War (read it way, way too young, didn't realize a rotting donkey was a central theme until much too late, never really recovered). But I do know that that's not actually a logical reason to avoid all fiction with "Bean" in the title.

*departs to check it out*

anoneknewmoose June 4 2006, 22:16:32 UTC

Haha. No, I haven't seen it, but that's great.

Rotting donkey? Bzuh?

Bean Trees has no rotting donkeys. Enjoy! ;)

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thefourthvine June 4 2006, 22:13:15 UTC

There are no really good spam filters, sorry.

I was beginning to suspect as much, but I cling to the hope that there is one and it's just really well hidden. A stealth spam filter, if you will. Ninja Anti-Spam! It sneaks onto your hard drive late in the night and dices the spam into itty bitty pieces. Then it tracks the spam back to its origin point and embeds a poisoned dagger directly into the heart of the spammer.

I would pay good money for that program. I so totally would.

The other thing I do, that you might want to consider, is that I have a gmail account that is used for backup.

This is a brilliant idea. *awed*

despatches

Abundantly familiar with it. Of course. All the Age of Sail, in one handy post! (Which, speaking of that - have you read the new Susan Cooper AoS book yet? I want to order it, but...I love her other books so much that I'm afraid my expectations are wildly inflated.)

Errr, I'm sure you read my "recent fanfic reading" postsYup. And thank you for re-instating those. I love them intensely. (You're excused from both ( ... )

exceptinsects June 5 2006, 02:03:16 UTC

[gasps]

There is a Jeeves and Wooster/Lord Peter Wimsey crossover??

[goes off to find these so-called "recent fanfic reading" posts of yours, omg]

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thefourthvine June 4 2006, 22:21:03 UTC

There's fanfiction that isn't supernatural or RPS? Really? Where?

Oh, it's about. It's just using its natural camoflage to escape detection.

*sets up portable FF tracking device and author radio-tagging system*

The Last Shot by Darcy Frey is this absolutely wonderful book that uses basketball to talk about larger issues like culture and race and class.

Innnnnteresting. *adds to wish list*

'68 by Paco Ignacio Taibo

You know, I wouldn't know anything about this movement if it wasn't for the internet. Makes me wonder if anyone in the US knew about it when it was actually happening.

*likewise adds*

Taylor Branch's Civil Rights Movement Trilogy

Once more into the wish list!