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/
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'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."
Dana - Mar 03, 2006 6:02:19 am PST #91 of 28095
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Kathy A - Mar 03, 2006 9:31:03 am PST #92 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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?
Hayden - Mar 03, 2006 9:36:22 am PST #93 of 28095
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
DXMachina - Mar 03, 2006 9:36:37 am PST #94 of 28095
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Never mind. Didn't read the whole thing.
Kate P. - Mar 03, 2006 9:45:42 am PST #95 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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).
Kathy A - Mar 03, 2006 9:56:43 am PST #96 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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?
Hayden - Mar 03, 2006 10:07:10 am PST #97 of 28095
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
Jon B. - Mar 03, 2006 10:08:51 am PST #98 of 28095
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
FAQWife liked Jonathan Strange.
That's all I got.
DebetEsse - Mar 03, 2006 10:30:45 am PST #99 of 28095
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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.
Kathy A - Mar 03, 2006 10:33:33 am PST #100 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's why I'm leaning more towards relatively new stuff. I haven't been to his apartment in over a year, and really haven't talked to him in nearly that long, so I'm not too sure exactly what he's into right now. I figure he has the DVDs that he wants, and being the music geek he is, I'm sure he's got all the CDs possible, so books are about my only option.