Urgent! Book! Request!
Jul. 25th, 2006 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
i_kenderArgh! Save me, LJ, you're my only hope!
I'm reading a really bad book at the moment. This is all the more frustrating because I thought it was going to be a good book.
It's called Shadowmancer by G. P Taylor, a former vicar. It's, um, not very good, I'm afraid. I don't want to rant about it. I just didn't like it.
But alack! Alas! I've run out of books to read! And my local library is closed until August! ARGH! However will I cope?
Please please please could someone recommend some decent books?!! It has to be fiction, I'm afraid, and preferably but not necessarily genre.
I'm reading a really bad book at the moment. This is all the more frustrating because I thought it was going to be a good book.
It's called Shadowmancer by G. P Taylor, a former vicar. It's, um, not very good, I'm afraid. I don't want to rant about it. I just didn't like it.
But alack! Alas! I've run out of books to read! And my local library is closed until August! ARGH! However will I cope?
Please please please could someone recommend some decent books?!! It has to be fiction, I'm afraid, and preferably but not necessarily genre.
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:00 pm (UTC)But if you're reading Children's fiction)
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series
All the stuff by Diana Wynne Jones except Changeover (which you must have read)
Garth Nix the weekday series starting with Mister Monday
Jonathan Stroud The Golem's Eye
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 01:18 pm (UTC)Any grown-up titles you could recommend?
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:21 pm (UTC)Thanks for the others tho, my girlfriend swears by Jeeves and Wooster! (Not literally, although that could be quite funny: "Good heavens! By the ire of Jeeves and the wroth of Wooster I smite thee etc")
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 01:24 pm (UTC)*falls off chair laughing*
My laughter muscles got a good work out there.
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:27 pm (UTC)or
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
or lots of things :)
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Date: 2006-07-25 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 01:34 pm (UTC)*raises sword* By the Power of Bertie!
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:30 pm (UTC)I like lots of things in fantasy and sci fi, and "proper books" too.
To give you an idea, the last books I read were: The Devil You Know (Mike Carey), The Wolves of the Calla (Stephen King), Knights of Dark Reknown (David Gemmell), Peace (Gene Wolfe, which I didn't like) and The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger).
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Date: 2006-07-25 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 02:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 02:34 pm (UTC)I wouldn't be determined to finish it if I didn't have such a long commute.
On the bright side, it only cost me £1 from Oxfam.
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Date: 2006-07-25 03:13 pm (UTC)I win! :)
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Date: 2006-07-25 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 04:32 pm (UTC)Hmm. Children's book-wise, I highly recommend Susan Cooper's 'Dark is Rising Sequence', which I find myself rereading quite frequently. Okay, so the first book is not great, but the others are acts of genius.
Otherly, I'd recommend:
The Vintner's Luck, by Elizabeth Knox
Rough Music, by Patrick Gale
Nights in the Gardens of Spain, by Witi Ihimaera
Stone Junction, by Jim Dodge
Those're just a few off the top of my head.
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Date: 2006-07-25 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 08:14 pm (UTC)(for now at least)
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Date: 2006-07-25 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-25 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-26 09:16 am (UTC)So, I have books but I'm not sure any of them will be your bag, baby.