book recommendations
Jan. 1st, 2005 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I am interested in getting some book recommendations. Does anyone have a title or three to suggest?
I read a lot of sci fi. I like it, but there's a good chance I will have already read your sci fi suggestion. Ditto with pagan titles.
Mystery is a field I've been getting more into recently. Ditto with accessible nonfiction.
I read a lot of sci fi. I like it, but there's a good chance I will have already read your sci fi suggestion. Ditto with pagan titles.
Mystery is a field I've been getting more into recently. Ditto with accessible nonfiction.
Up early today?
Date: 2005-01-01 04:11 pm (UTC)Have a great day!
Re: Up early today?
Date: 2005-01-01 11:06 pm (UTC)Yes, I'm aware of 50bookchallenge, witchyreads, and other such places. But I prefer to get suggestions from people that I know and like - I find I'm much more likely to enjoy the books they enjoyed. I would be very curious about hearing some of your favorites, actually.
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Date: 2005-01-01 06:03 pm (UTC)Oops.
Date: 2005-01-01 11:09 pm (UTC)Yes, _Guns, Germs, and Steel_ is an awesome book. I was just given a lovely hardcover edition of it by
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Date: 2005-01-10 02:41 am (UTC)For an interesting take on the genre, try "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins, considered to be the first mystery novel ever (I think it just had good Victorian press, but it's interesting how many of the mystery novel conventions are present in their contemporary form.)
When I unpack my books, I may have many mystery novels you can borrow as you like.
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Date: 2005-01-11 10:02 pm (UTC)I'm incerdibly fussy about mysteries, because I don't want to be able to figure it out halfway through the book, but I don't want the ending to be some bullshit that the author pulled out of his/her ass in an attempt to surprise the reader, either. And I have a tendency to figure it out early on... so blergh.
I remember really enjoying Stephen Dobyns, because his writing was really good, and the mystery was secondary.
For mystery recommendations, I usually turn to
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I'd try and recommend scifi, but I've seen your shelves and I doubt there's anything I could say :) I dunno - did you ever read The Merro Tree? I just lent that one to queue and he enjoyed it. And I always recommend Patricia Anthony. I think anything else I'd recommend is pretty well-recognized.