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BOOKS!
Everybody's doing that book meme thing. I did it in my head but am lazy. Anyway instead I decided to do some reading lists. Oooh! And you can too! Since I already know the answers to all mine. You could try to make every answer to each question different. That'd be fun.
1. A favorite book!
2. A book that affected you in your YA years.
3. A favorite fantasy novel.
4. A favorite sci fi novel.
5. An awesome book (possibly a favorite) you think not many people around you have heard of/read.
6. A book you own more than one copy of.
7. An author whose every single book you own/will buy.
8. The worst book you've ever read.
9. A book you dislike that lots of other people you know like.
10. The most difficult book you've ever read.
11. Tell me what kind of books your mom reads/read.
12. What have you read so far this year?
13. What are you reading now?
14. What are you reading next? (list! list! You know you want to)
MY ANSWERS
1. A favorite book! Beauty, by Robin McKinley
2. A book that affected you in your YA years. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
3. A favorite fantasy novel. Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gaveril Kay
4. A favorite sci fi novel. Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K LeGuin
5. An awesome book you think not many people around you have heard of/read. They Loved To Laugh, by Kathyrn Worth
6. A book you own more than one copy of. Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
7. An author whose every single book you own/will buy.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mistful. Trufax, guys. When I fall I fall hard.
8. The worst book you've ever read. Dunno, but Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is amazing, people.
9. A book you dislike that lots of other people you know like. The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown
10. The most difficult book you've ever read. Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
11. Tell me what kind of books your mom reads/read. Bodice rippers! She likes those ones called things like, Devil's Bride and The Count's Daughter. There should be a book with a woman scantily clad and fainting into the arms of the Count on front, and inside he should say things like "ONE heaving bosom, AH AH AH", "THREE confines of his pants, AH AH AH", "TWO crystal gazes AHAHAH".
12. What have you read so far this year? OOOH.
italicized means unfinished!
Against The Day, Thomas Pynchon (1)
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (2)
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (3)
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (4)
Dog's Body, Diana Wynne Jones (5)
Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones (6)
White As Snow, Tanith Lee (7)
Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell (8)
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (9)
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (10)
Writer's Journey, Christopher Vogler (11)
Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku (12)
Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold (13)
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer (14)
The Drowned Maiden's Hair, Laura Amy Schiltz (15)
Spin, Robert Charles Wilson (16)
Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham (17)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman (18)
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer (19)
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (20)
13. What are you reading now? Shadow Of the Torturer, Gene Wolf (21)
14. What are you reading next?
Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe (22)
The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold (23)
The Summing Up, Somerset Maugham (24)
Ceteganda, Lois McMaster Bujold (25)
Days of Disco (26)
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones (27)
Ysabel, Guy Gaveril Kay (28)
Moby Dick, Hermann Melville (29)
Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog, Ysabeau S. Wilce (30)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King (31)
Georgette Heyer
Dorothy L. Sayers
Hexwood, Diana Wynne Jones (pendingmy_daroga's opinion) (27)
The Corrections, Johnathan Franzen (28)
Locksley, Nicholas Chase (29)
Mystery At The Opera House (30)
The Worthing Chronicle, Orson Scott Card (31)
Night Magic, Charlotte Vale Allen (32)
Empire of the Stars, Arthur I Miller (34)
The Great War for Civilization, Robert Fisk (35)
Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas R Hofstader (36)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrill, Susanna Clark (37)
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy (40)
Horation Hornblower, C.S. Forester (41, 42, 43)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (44)
Dune: House Atreides, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (45)
She, H. Rider Haggard (46)
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (47)
Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (48)
Brave New World, Huxley (49)
Like Water For Chocolate (in Spanish!), Laura Esquivel (50)
1. A favorite book!
2. A book that affected you in your YA years.
3. A favorite fantasy novel.
4. A favorite sci fi novel.
5. An awesome book (possibly a favorite) you think not many people around you have heard of/read.
6. A book you own more than one copy of.
7. An author whose every single book you own/will buy.
8. The worst book you've ever read.
9. A book you dislike that lots of other people you know like.
10. The most difficult book you've ever read.
11. Tell me what kind of books your mom reads/read.
12. What have you read so far this year?
13. What are you reading now?
14. What are you reading next? (list! list! You know you want to)
MY ANSWERS
1. A favorite book! Beauty, by Robin McKinley
2. A book that affected you in your YA years. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
3. A favorite fantasy novel. Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gaveril Kay
4. A favorite sci fi novel. Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K LeGuin
5. An awesome book you think not many people around you have heard of/read. They Loved To Laugh, by Kathyrn Worth
6. A book you own more than one copy of. Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
7. An author whose every single book you own/will buy.
mistful. Trufax, guys. When I fall I fall hard.8. The worst book you've ever read. Dunno, but Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is amazing, people.
9. A book you dislike that lots of other people you know like. The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown
10. The most difficult book you've ever read. Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
11. Tell me what kind of books your mom reads/read. Bodice rippers! She likes those ones called things like, Devil's Bride and The Count's Daughter. There should be a book with a woman scantily clad and fainting into the arms of the Count on front, and inside he should say things like "ONE heaving bosom, AH AH AH", "THREE confines of his pants, AH AH AH", "TWO crystal gazes AHAHAH".
12. What have you read so far this year? OOOH.
italicized means unfinished!
Against The Day, Thomas Pynchon (1)
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (2)
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (3)
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (4)
Dog's Body, Diana Wynne Jones (5)
Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones (6)
White As Snow, Tanith Lee (7)
Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell (8)
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (9)
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (10)
Writer's Journey, Christopher Vogler (11)
Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku (12)
Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold (13)
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer (14)
The Drowned Maiden's Hair, Laura Amy Schiltz (15)
Spin, Robert Charles Wilson (16)
Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham (17)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman (18)
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer (19)
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (20)
13. What are you reading now? Shadow Of the Torturer, Gene Wolf (21)
14. What are you reading next?
Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe (22)
The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold (23)
The Summing Up, Somerset Maugham (24)
Ceteganda, Lois McMaster Bujold (25)
Days of Disco (26)
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones (27)
Ysabel, Guy Gaveril Kay (28)
Moby Dick, Hermann Melville (29)
Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog, Ysabeau S. Wilce (30)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King (31)
Georgette Heyer
Dorothy L. Sayers
Hexwood, Diana Wynne Jones (pending
my_daroga's opinion) (27)The Corrections, Johnathan Franzen (28)
Locksley, Nicholas Chase (29)
Mystery At The Opera House (30)
The Worthing Chronicle, Orson Scott Card (31)
Night Magic, Charlotte Vale Allen (32)
Empire of the Stars, Arthur I Miller (34)
The Great War for Civilization, Robert Fisk (35)
Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas R Hofstader (36)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrill, Susanna Clark (37)
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy (40)
Horation Hornblower, C.S. Forester (41, 42, 43)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (44)
Dune: House Atreides, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (45)
She, H. Rider Haggard (46)
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (47)
Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (48)
Brave New World, Huxley (49)
Like Water For Chocolate (in Spanish!), Laura Esquivel (50)
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I thought of you when I learned what it was about.
And if you want to add more books to your list, I highly recommend Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder.
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"amazing" the way I used it above means "horribly awfully terrible!" Twilight has got to be one of the worst books I've ever read, though perhaps it wouldn't be quite so abhorrent if it wasn't so popular (sort of like Dan Brown that way). That said, I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading it. As I said to someone else above, it has the morbid fascination of a train wreck. It encapsulates so thoroughly what I hate about many romance novels, many fantasy novels, and possibly myself. It's wrong. It's so wrong it's tremendously fascinating. Since you did buy it I'm so interested in what you'll think about it.
I totally added Poison Study to my list when you posted about it! You made it sound really interesting--and didn't you say it was young adult fantasy? That's what I'm interested in writing right now, so I'm interested in reading what else is out there--part of why I started reading Twilight.
I actually don't like vampires. I didn't watch Buffy forever, at first because I thought it was stupid, but then when people started telling me "no no! It's very clever!" I thought it might not be stupid, but it would be all Anne Rice and angsty. I really don't, on general principle, care about beautiful immortal people eternally conflicted over eating people. But Buffy started out as not like that at all--it was about a tiny little blond chick kicking icky vampire ass! And the vampires were all ugly and mindless and it was really not about them, but the struggle of someone forced into a life she didn't choose. It was only later some of the vampires turned all beautiful and angsty, and by then I felt the show had earned the right.
Twilight is even worse than Anne Rice in being everything I despise about vampire stories in general.
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I’m humbled at your taking my book advice. But I believe you’ll enjoy Poison Study. I finished the second book, Magic Study the other night, and while I didn’t find it as well done as the first one, it still held my interest to the point putting off anything else until I read more. I have to get started on the last one, Fire Study, this weekend. And I thought it was Young Adult. The friend who recommended it said it was YA, but it was in the main fiction section of the library (calling it the “adult section” just isn’t right!!!), and the stuff described in the books is really too intense for young adults. At least I think so. It doesn’t pull any punches, which I like a lot, but it’s not for younger readers.
Oh, TKP writing young adult stuff!? I think that would be a great fit for you. Any ideas bubbling?
And another wow! I thought for sure you were a fan of vampires because of some gothic-tendencies you’ve instilled into Capt. von Trapp. But I like your summary of vampires: beautiful immortals eternally conflicted over eating people. When it’s put that way, it does sound rather one-dimensional! I take it you’re not an Ann Rice fan either (hee).