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Book Recs Needed

posted by [personal profile] laylee at 01:42pm on 11/01/2005
Okay guys, recommend a book for me to read. I've read all of mine about 50 million times.*

*A slight exaggeration I know, but it feel like it sometimes.

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I'm not having the best day. It's not entirely bad, but it's not the best either. I could do without it.

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I've just been invited to a party on the weekend. It's a surprise birthday party for the guy who shared a house with O before he went back to Russia. I won't know anyone there except the birthday boy and A (who invited me.) But I'm going anyway because I need to get out and stop feeling sorry for myself.
Mood:: 'restless' restless
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posted by [identity profile] delurker.livejournal.com at 02:56am on 11/01/2005
www.baen.com has free ebooks of some of their back catalogue, so if you like SF/Fantasy...
also The No. 1 Ladies´s Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith is good.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime looked like fun.
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 05:26am on 12/01/2005
The No. 1 Ladies´s Detective Agency

A couple of people have recommended this. I must check it out.
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posted by [personal profile] suzy_queue at 03:32am on 11/01/2005
Passage - Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
The Eyre Affair (and following books) - Jasper Fforde
The Road Home - Ellen Emerson White

Those are the ones I love that are in reach. <.g>
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 05:27am on 12/01/2005
I've never been able to get into Terry Pratchett for some reason (sacrilegious, I know) but I'll have a look for the others.
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posted by [identity profile] threequarters.livejournal.com at 03:43am on 11/01/2005
Better Angel by Richard Meeker is one of my favorite books of all time. It's loosely based on the author's experience as a young gay man coming of age in the 1920's/30's. It's widely regarded as the first piece of gay literature published in America that ended on a hopeful note. Up until its publication in 1933, any other books written on the subject of homosexuality featured the character(s) committing suicide or living terrible, unhappy lives in exile.

It maybe tough to find, you'll probably have to order it off amazon or something, but it's totally worth it.
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 05:29am on 12/01/2005
www.abebooks.com is also good for those hard to find tomes, especially if you're not fussed about newness.
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posted by [identity profile] tookhernowhere.livejournal.com at 03:56am on 11/01/2005
You should read something by Jean Paul Sartre. His plays are nice if you don't dig straight-up philosophy.

Maybe you'll meet someone interesting at the party!
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 05:31am on 12/01/2005
Maybe you'll meet someone interesting at the party!

I will! And another friend is DJing on Friday night so I have the feeling it's going to turn into one of those weekends.
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posted by [identity profile] in-the-bottle.livejournal.com at 03:58am on 11/01/2005
I think I've read more fics than books. As a matter of fact, I think I have a whole stack of unread books on my shelve at home, just *waiting* to be read. But the last light reading book I've read that amuses me to no end was the "Feng Shui Detective" series. I think there're 2 books, the "Feng Shui Detective", and "Feng Shui Detective Goes South", which is the one I have. The 2nd book takes place in Singapore and Sydney, and the description of the people and places are right on, not to mention the book's just plain funny! :)
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 05:32am on 12/01/2005
I think I've heard about those. I'll have a look for them. The Rowdy probably has them.
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posted by [identity profile] in-the-bottle.livejournal.com at 08:46am on 12/01/2005
Cool! I've been trying to find the first book, if they have it, I can just ask my housemate to borrow it for me. Hehehe...
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posted by [personal profile] ngaio at 08:03am on 11/01/2005
Okay guys, recommend a book for me to read. I've read all of mine about 50 million times

Go to my journal, look at the right hand side links bar, click on link marked 'best book ever-go read'. Enjoy.

For more info ask me again in about 10 hours time once I'm back from work and can go on for *hours* about the book!
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 05:34am on 12/01/2005
Hmm, intreguing...
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posted by [personal profile] ngaio at 06:39pm on 13/01/2005
Want any more info/raving on my part?!
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 10:49pm on 13/01/2005
Feel free. I'm always on the look out for something new.
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posted by [identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com at 11:49am on 11/01/2005
Have you read Carter Beats the Devil? It was my favourite book of ... a couple of years back, now; one of those where, when you've finished it, you wish you had it to start over for the first time. (Um. If you see what I mean, and I can't think why you should.)

Tell me what sort of thing you enjoy, and I'll think of some other stuff!
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posted by [identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com at 11:50am on 11/01/2005
Bugger. I left the bold tag on.
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 05:36am on 12/01/2005
Have you read Carter Beats the Devil?

We've got it at work. And 'The Adventures of Flash Jackson'. I'm going to borrow them before I leave tonight.
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posted by [identity profile] meadowlion.livejournal.com at 12:52pm on 16/01/2005
Try My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr.
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posted by [identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com at 02:44pm on 16/01/2005
Thanks!

*goes to check library catalogue*
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