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Reading this summer
RachelAllshiny:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 09 Jun 2008, 01:08 ---So while on the subject of werewolves, does anyone have any suggestions for other werewolf-related books?
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Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar is on my list. I just read The Good Fairies of New York and it was great...punk rock Scottish thistle fairies causing trouble!
I read a lot...a ridiculous amount, even...but I have so many that I'm excited about in line.
First, I'm finishing the John Connolly books. I read The Book of Lost Things (dark fantasy) and fell in love with him. He also has Nocturnes, supernatural short stories. And I'm making my way through his mystery/thriller series. (If you like your thrillers to have lots of action, but also some thought and a supernatural twist, try his.)
Currently I am reading: The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The movie is great, but you get even more background/details in the book. Maybe too much..? But it's fun.
Somehow I have never read any Le Guin. So The Left Hand of Darkness awaits me patiently.
By the way - so many Lit majors here! I have a degree in it, and I work at a bookstore, so it's like an addiction for me.
ptfreak:
--- Quote from: RachelAllshiny on 01 Jul 2008, 19:13 ---Currently I am reading: The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The movie is great, but you get even more background/details in the book. Maybe too much..? But it's fun.
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You mean S. Morgenstern. William Goldman is a phony!
jimbunny:
--- Quote from: RachelAllshiny ---Somehow I have never read any Le Guin. So The Left Hand of Darkness awaits me patiently.
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Good choice. Stick with it; it's a little dry.
CamusCanDo:
--- Quote from: RachelAllshiny on 01 Jul 2008, 19:13 ---Currently I am reading: The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The movie is great, but you get even more background/details in the book. Maybe too much..? But it's fun.
Somehow I have never read any Le Guin. So The Left Hand of Darkness awaits me patiently.
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The Princess Bride is one of my all time favourite books. I've yet to read a book that's filled with as much romance, adventure and comedy. So good.
If you end up liking The Left Hand of Darkness I highly recommend The Dispossessed as it's generally considered the first book in the Hainish Series, then just make your way through the rest of the books. While you're at it, don't forget The Earthsea novels.
Today I picked up 'Scar Night' by Alan Campbell and 'Shriek: An Afterword' by Jeff Vandermeer, which are probably just going to end up in my pile of to read books, because as of right now I'm trying to make my way through the Wraeththu Trilogy. Also a few days ago I bought Gaiman's 'M Is For Magic' and the first three books in the Neveryon series by Samuel R. Delany.
Dissy:
--- Quote from: ptfreak on 01 Jul 2008, 20:43 ---
--- Quote from: RachelAllshiny on 01 Jul 2008, 19:13 ---Currently I am reading: The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The movie is great, but you get even more background/details in the book. Maybe too much..? But it's fun.
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You mean S. Morgenstern. William Goldman is a phony!
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This is the William Goldman version. The S. Morgenstern version was rich with useless background of the country of Florin, and really wordy, so Goldman edited those parts out. And he interjects everynow and then to make comments about nothing.
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