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laylee ([personal profile] laylee) wrote2005-01-11 01:42 pm
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Book Recs Needed

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.
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[identity profile] delurker.livejournal.com 2005-01-11 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] suzy_queue 2005-01-11 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
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>

[identity profile] threequarters.livejournal.com 2005-01-11 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
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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[identity profile] tookhernowhere.livejournal.com 2005-01-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] in-the-bottle.livejournal.com 2005-01-11 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] ngaio 2005-01-11 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
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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[identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com 2005-01-11 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
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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[identity profile] phoebesmum.livejournal.com 2005-01-11 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
Bugger. I left the bold tag on.

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
The No. 1 Ladies´s Detective Agency

A couple of people have recommended this. I must check it out.

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
www.abebooks.com is also good for those hard to find tomes, especially if you're not fussed about newness.

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I think I've heard about those. I'll have a look for them. The Rowdy probably has them.

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, intreguing...

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] in-the-bottle.livejournal.com 2005-01-12 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] ngaio 2005-01-13 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Want any more info/raving on my part?!

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-13 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Feel free. I'm always on the look out for something new.

[identity profile] meadowlion.livejournal.com 2005-01-16 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Try My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr.

[identity profile] laylee.livejournal.com 2005-01-16 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

*goes to check library catalogue*
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