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Little, Big by John Crowley
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Johnny Mnemonic by Terry Bisson
The Hidden Family by Charles Stross
M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
Rise of a Merchant Prince by Raymond E. Feist
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Library1,002 books — see library
Reviews7 reviews — see reviews
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Tagsfiction (910), paperback (792), series (551), fantasy (360), fictional universe (294), 20th century (228), magic (214), England (210), crime (208) — see all tags
Groups1001 Fantasy Roadies, Agatha Christie, Australian LibraryThingers, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Books in Books, Cats, books, life is good., Combiners!, Cover Art, Covers, Desert Island Books — show all groups
Favorite authorsJane Austen, Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold, Agatha Christie, Neil Gaiman, Kerry Greenwood, Barry Hughart, Guy Gavriel Kay, Katharine Kerr, Sharon Lee, Ngaio Marsh, Armistead Maupin, L.M. Montgomery, Elizabeth Moon, Terry Pratchett, Spider Robinson, Connie Willis, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresGrub Street Bookshop, Minotaur, Reader's Feast Bookstore
About my library Weighted with fantasy & science fiction, with an interest in most other genres as well. I like books for all moods.
I especially like stories that attempt to examine how our human mindset reacts/adapts to society and change. I've found a lot of science fiction and fantasy addresses those questions; some superbly written and others not. Then there's the sunday avo chill-out books, children's, classics, and mysteries.. even the odd airport timewaster is here..
RE: The desert island tag... if you were stranded on a desert island, what books do YOU want to read & re-read?
Cover art is an interest. I'll often choose a 2nd-hand edition over brand new if the older one matches other books in my set. I'll also choose a UK edition over a cheaper US one if I like the visual style more.
I've got many Agatha Christie 2nd-hand paperbacks because I love how illustrative art has changed each decade to convey the SAME story to new readers ... My favourites are the 1950's for sheer liveliness of image vs. the same story illustrated 20 years later in the swirly 70's. [80's reprints were a new low in ugliness and are funny for their sheer awfulness]. She's the only author I've come across who's been reprinted every decade per book. That's a huge canvas to view illustrative and advertising changes in society.
Feel welcome to search my library to see all my Agatha Christie , Pan Covers , or the HarperCollins series from over a decade ago retro 30s tribute covers to see the differences.
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posted by fuchsiaberry at 4:32 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2008
Cheers!
posted by staffordcastle at 11:56 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2007
I copied your two haiku from the Pirate Haiku blog comments to the Wiki.
I hope you don't mind.
posted by SilentInAWay at 3:19 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2007
posted by jp_burton at 5:38 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2007
Cheers!
posted by staffordcastle at 11:35 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2007
posted by Aquila at 5:57 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2007
posted by DerBuecherwurm at 9:28 am (EST) on Jul 13, 2007
I was just taking a look around in your library and first thing I saw was the "desert island" tag. I like that very much. Mind if I steal it? My great challenge is that I would really like to get into different genres and leave some of the old behind, so finding people with 'matching' libraries is actually not that interesting to me. I would almost like to find opposites. This is why your library is very interesting to me.
posted by DerBuecherwurm at 10:38 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2007
posted by Aquila at 6:13 pm (EST) on May 10, 2007
Well, yeah, but...see the thread I started in the Book Talk group entitled "Anticipation of Tragedy" about reading out of order.
The other stories in Irresistible Forces didn't appeal much to me, except for the one about a collaboration between two mages (male and female, of course...the title of the compilation refers to the magic of love) to defeat the Spanish Armada through the use of storms.
posted by Linkmeister at 1:47 pm (EST) on May 3, 2007
posted by Linkmeister at 5:15 pm (EST) on May 2, 2007
posted by edc135 at 2:31 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2007
Best regards
Lee
posted by mysticreader at 6:34 am (EST) on Apr 20, 2007
re: the Thomsen anthologies
They're reprint anthologies, so
1) I already have most(all?) of the contents, and thus was under no urgency to pick them up when they were new on the bookstore shelves; and
2) Each one contains work by Orson Scott Card, and he’s hateful enough that I don’t give him money if I can avoid it.
Here are the contents, so you can judge for yourself:
Novel Ideas SF: Ender’s Game (Card), Fire Watch (Willis), Air Raid (Varley), Lady in the Tower (McCaffrey), Postman (Brin), Blood Music (Bear), Beggars in Spain (Kress).
Novel Ideas Fantasy: St.Dragon & the George (Dickson), Unicorn Tapestry (Charnas), Hatrack River, Lost Boys (Card), Gargoyle’s Shadow (Kurtz), Jerlayne (Abbey), Gilgamesh in the Outback (Silverberg) , Midshipwizard (James Ward).
Hope that helps.
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 1:54 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2007
posted by hulkling at 11:40 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2007
You bought it for your shelves or for yourself? ;-)
I agree with you. Claire Tomalin's Pepys is really a big book.
posted by Pepys at 12:29 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2007
I enthusiastically recommend just about everything Connie Willis has written; you should add Doomsday Book to your list if you haven't already read it.
posted by ellen.w at 11:21 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2007
posted by Doulton at 12:37 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2007
What's with the "ficton" tag? I'd been taking it for a typo, but I guess it isn't.
And wow to your comments. Lots of interesting information.
I've just finished the third of the Merry books, they've been reprinted by GGBP http://www.ggbp.co.uk/ expensive, but I'm sure there are Australian resellers because some of them advertise on the NZ auction sites. However maybe you prefer the originals?
The books of In My Father's Den is quite different in some ways to the movie. I won't say how, let you read it. It was the movie that got me to go and find a copy, and of course all our library ones were out!
Here's my desert island shelf:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?...
And I'll stop going on now.
posted by Aquila at 6:12 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2006
I'm tending to list my more esoteric books, odd children's books from the 60's, resulting in my having few books in common with anyone!
I love sci fi. I haven't even begun to list those. Do I really need to catalog my library as it is so time consuming and we own lots of books? I've read almost all of Sheri Tepper. And... well, too many sci fi authors to go into here, feminists, classics, cyberpunk, space opera, etc.. I've never read Sharon Lee though. Would you recommend her? You might like Maureen McHugh, although she can be a bit cold, dark and depressed.
The book covers of sci-fi paperbacks from the 60's are divine.
posted by oangeLA at 3:36 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2006
posted by bookgal71 at 7:36 am (EST) on Apr 21, 2006
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