Recommendations: Anansi Boys and The Book Thief.
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Nov 11, 2007 10:29:48 pm PST #4273 of 28258
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aims - Nov 16, 2007 4:09:39 am PST #4274 of 28258
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok - I read American Gods as my First Neil Gaiman novel.
I liked it fine enough. Would I like Coraline?
(conversation in movies reminded me)
Dana - Nov 16, 2007 4:13:10 am PST #4275 of 28258
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Do you generally like creepy kids' books? I like both American Gods and Coraline, but they're very different books. It's a lot shorter than American Gods, so there's that.
I think almost everyone liked Coraline. My other favorite Gaiman books are probably Stardust and Neverwhere.
Aims - Nov 16, 2007 4:18:26 am PST #4276 of 28258
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Do you generally like creepy kids' books?
I don't think that I've really ever read any creepy kids books. As I said, American Gods was my first Gaiman novel, but it was also one of the first .... good lord, I don't even know what genre to put him in.
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I read a lot of romance and Hollywood biographies (when I'm not reading Harry Potter). I burnt out on them last year and started going through Joe's mostly sci fi library. I started with Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. I loved them. Then onto American Gods. I'm trying to widen my reading horizons before I turn into middleaged motherly cliche - taking the kids to soccer practice with a Danielle Steel novel tucked under my arm.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2007 4:24:27 am PST #4277 of 28258
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Were you (or Em) around for Fay's reading of Wolves in the Walls at the SF2F?
I'd put Gaiman somewhere between fantasy and magical realism, genrewise.
Aims - Nov 16, 2007 4:26:31 am PST #4278 of 28258
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Were you (or Em) around for Fay's reading of Wolves in the Walls at the SF2F?
I think we left in the middle of it. Em has a copy of it that she loves.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2007 4:28:02 am PST #4279 of 28258
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
She might be a little young for Coraline now, but if she likes Wolves, chances are she'll like his others.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 16, 2007 4:30:51 am PST #4280 of 28258
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Another fun Gaiman book (in collaboration with Terry Pratchett) is GOOD OMENS.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2007 4:31:44 am PST #4281 of 28258
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Good Omens! Of course. I think I may have read that one even before Sandman.
Aims - Nov 16, 2007 4:35:14 am PST #4282 of 28258
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hee! My co-worker just told me I'd like Good Omens, too. I didn't pick it up cause of the Terry Pratchett thing cause I tried to read Pyramids and one of the witches books and couldn't get into it.