Oh yay, that's a fabulous idea. Maybe it's time for a culling.
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."
You may want to check the library website for details. I can't bear to let the board convert this to a link, since the website is http://nutrias.org/
Looking for suggestions for a birthday gift for tomorrow. Guy's a 41 year old Trekkie/LotR/Firefly geek who also likes the Harry Potter books and Douglas Adams, but I'm not too sure if he does a lot of SF reading. I'm looking for a few paperbacks that are relatively new that he has a good chance of not having already read.
Any ideas?
Is he a heavy reader? 'Cause go with Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon or the first volume of The System Of The World trilogy (which is Quicksilver) if so.
Never mind. Didn't read the whole thing.
What about the new Bujold series? The Curse of Chalion, The Paladin of Souls, and is there one more? I might have the titles wrong. Alternatively, if he likes Tolkein, he might also like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (which I just read recently and LOVED).
I know he doesn't own a lot of books, but he loves the ones he does have. Kate, the Jonathan Strange one, what is that about, and is it really Tolkien-esque?
Here's my short review on it. It isn't Tolkien-esque, but it's great. In fact, I point out in the review that it's better than Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
FAQWife liked Jonathan Strange.
That's all I got.
t pimps Discworld
Not new, but sounds right up his alley, book-wise. So, I suppose, he may well have read them already.
Well, Thud is the newest in the series, and it's newer than Jonathan Strange. I haven't read it yet, though, so I don't know how well it would work stand-alone.