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GrupperBookMooching, Children's Fiction, Group Reads - Sci-Fi, ISBN, Poetry Fool, Read YA Lit, Science Fiction Fans, Weird Fiction

YndlingsforfattereEmma Bull, Peter Dickinson, Diane Duane, Laura Fargas, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, William Gibson, Lisa Goldstein, Patricia A. McKillip Illustrated by Robinson Charl, Haruki Murakami, Naomi Shihab Nye, Richard Powers, Tim Powers, Anna Swir, J. R. R. Tolkien (Fælles favoritter)

Om mig MLS, geographer, epidemiologist, Pittsboro, NC - small town 18 miles S of CHill. Son grad. from Mac, St. Paul, 2006. Married 20+ yrs. Started w/ sci-fi and fantasy in 4th grade when mom ordered Tolkien and E. Nesbitt books from Blackwells. Grew up in NoVa, undergrad W&M & VPISU, grad school..all UNC-CH (go tar heel bball). 30+yrs ago - on the left...still on the left.
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Also spouse, Patty, who, as of late, has been doing most of the entry on LT and enforcing stricter standards of data quality. Another geographer, met in our shared "office" (room w/ 4 desks) during grad school. She's also doing epidemiological data munching-analysis for/at the NIEHS. She keeps threatening to have UNC rescind my MLS...

Om mit bibliotek Unlike my coin, stamp, lp collections...I've diligently hung onto most of my books over the years. If i think i'm gonna EVER reread a book, it's a keeper..else it goes to the annual Pittsboro Library booksale. Well..there IS a problem w/ some "ancient", acid paper based paperbacks that are working their way towards disintegration! Just about every book entered has been read..though maybe 45 yrs ago! About 20% done w/ entry..go us.

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Robert:

I'm a HUGE Dylan fan but have not seen "I'm Not There" yet--dunno what it was about the movie that turned me off but at some point I'll give it another chance. Sherron LOVES Julie Taymor and really enjoyed "Across the Universe"--she's no big fan of the early Beatles stuff but she said the way the movie presented the songs gave her a different perspective on that whole "wanna hold your hand" routine. I saw the Bourne films--all of 'em--and they were pure entertainment with a solid stable of supporting actors to cover Damon's one-note acting.

Bond, well, I ain't a big fan--the torture scene in the last one has real power and intensity but the movie dragged like an legless moose on shag carpet.

"Children of Men", as I said, I must wait awhile before trying that one on. The book did not impress.

Thanks for dropping me a line or three, much appreciated.

skrevet af CliffBurns kl. 10:30 am (EST) den Aug 26, 2008

Thank you for the kind words, as well as the feeling of validation for considering adding bookshelves to my bathroom.

skrevet af jmgold kl. 8:33 pm (EST) den Aug 8, 2008

Yeah, that's on my list already as part of a small 'related' section.

skrevet af bluetyson kl. 9:26 pm (EST) den Aug 6, 2008

Yes, Lain is my cyber-alterego. I´m very fond of anime and Serial Experiments is one of my favourites.
Do you like it?

skrevet af revolutionary_marcia kl. 10:37 am (EST) den Jul 28, 2008

Bob:

I fear you might be right on the "literally" angle--I shall correct it for the next edition, yes? And thank you for pointing that out.

Glad you're having fun with the book--it is supposed a send-up, the laughs should abound. Feel free to print up a copy to send to yer sis--spread the word: reproduction without commercial benefit or profit is definitely permitted...indeed, encouraged.

Good to hear from you and have a great summer...

skrevet af CliffBurns kl. 5:23 pm (EST) den Jul 20, 2008

I am glad to know you've found my reviews helpful. Thank you for letting me know, it made my day:-)

Regarding Wicked Gentlemen, I doubt you'll find it at a bookstore. It is from a small publisher, I got it directly from their website: http://www.blingeyebooks.com. They were very helpful, and the shipping good and cheap - but then where I am books are substantially dearer than they are in the US...
- Sanne

skrevet af amberwitch kl. 11:22 am (EST) den Jul 19, 2008

Thanks much for the link on the SciFi group to the lectures Bob! Anything that makes traffic more bearable sounds good to me - esp because reading in the car = crashing for me.

Cheers!

skrevet af Sungold kl. 10:53 am (EST) den Jul 12, 2008

So today I was stuck at the intersection, sandwiched between a Navigator, an Escalade (pick-up!) and two Excursions, I couldn't help thinking of the "tasteless living room on wheels" comment. Especially since the kids were watching a movie in the back.

I also thought "$4+ a gallon for gas. Texans just don't get it."

skrevet af jseger9000 kl. 11:01 pm (EST) den Jun 23, 2008

Oh man, the little community I live in here in Texas, everybody drives minivans and SUVs, the big ones with names like Excursion and Navigator. What gets me is listening to the people that I work with who drive these behemoths bitch about the price of gas.

By the way, in the threads I was taking fantasy to task. I don't want to come off as prejudiced or narrow-minded about fantasy. I know there is much more variety. It's just that those Tolkien-esque books are by far the most popular which tells me that most people who read fantasy are looking for something very similar to Tolkien. For my money, anything that is set in some sort of parallel to Middle Ages Europe that involves a small but stalwart band led by a hero with hidden qualities that struggles against the dread rulers of the land while also working out their internal issues in an effort to complete a task which will restore goodness to the land is Tolkien-esque.

Having said that I don't mean to disrespect fantasy. Some of it (Tolkien, Moorcock, Piers Anthony when he isn't churning out another Xanth book, George R.R. Martin) is quite good. I also enjoy a good deal of the indefensibly cheesy Warhammer books.

It's just that I feel sci-fi is a more respectable genre even if the actual wordcraft isn't at the same level.

skrevet af jseger9000 kl. 10:31 pm (EST) den Jun 19, 2008

Sadly, I live in an ultra-conservative 'preplanned community' called The Woodlands outside of Houston. We moved to Texas from California and it was an eye-opener seeing what we could afford here in Texas compared to the cracker boxes we were looking at in SoCal. Only after living here for a while did I notice all the Hummers and Excursions with the W stickers on the back.

I miss California so much now.

And yeah, Lunar is something else. I don't agree with much of what he has to say when it comes to politics, but he's so dogged when he's pursuing a point that it's interesting to watch. He seems like a good guy who maybe takes things a little too seriously.

skrevet af jseger9000 kl. 11:31 pm (EST) den Jun 15, 2008

I have the Jeter Bladerunner books on the TBR pile-haven't read them yet. My next Jeter read will be one of his early things for Laser( the Harlequin Publishing attempt at the SF market) - "The Dreamfields". The other one for them "Seeklight" was actually pretty entertaining. If you like Jeter you should check it out.

skrevet af arthurfrayn kl. 1:08 am (EST) den Jun 11, 2008

Thanks for your note, Bob. Part of the difficulty is that I'm living in a somewhat conservative town at the moment (attending graduate school), so I'm sure a lot of people assume I'm Christian, especially since the sacred music we've sung has been awesome and I really get into it more than a lot of the folks. It feels "safer" not to be "different," and yet it is important to me to be different in this way.

And thanks for mentioning the Britten; it sounds like something I'd really like to look up.

skrevet af chellerystick kl. 12:52 am (EST) den Jun 11, 2008

I sympathize-I see that people love him, but I really don't get it. And I'll tell you why.
To me that novel reads like a 600+ page field guide for an RPG. And so on that level, I didn't really like his monsters, I thought his characters were inconsistent and I really don't like the way he uses the english language. He writes like he's writing death metal lyrics. There are times in the novel where I felt he was deliberately wasting my time. And although he comes off as a very erudite guy in all his interviews, to be directly or indirectly asked to accept the novel as a valid piece of Marxist analysis seems to me to be one of the biggest cons of all time.

I sympathize because I've never been successful at lending anyone Phillip K Dick. I get the weirdest responses from people about him.

skrevet af arthurfrayn kl. 11:55 pm (EST) den Jun 10, 2008

I just wanted to agree with your comment about [Patricia McKillip] in the Recommendations thread. She writes some of the loveliest prose available! And yet constantly seems to get dissed. Looking at our books in common, I see you also are one of those 179 with a copy of [A Face in the Frost], another one whose prose tingles me down to my toes!

skrevet af ronincats kl. 2:11 pm (EST) den Jun 7, 2008

I'll have a look at what you have given me, it looks extremely interesting, as it deals with religion and science fiction, two of my favourite subjects.

Again, thank you.

skrevet af rojse kl. 8:57 pm (EST) den May 18, 2008

Have you read "Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker (per your comment about acid paper books trending towards disintegration)? Where do you think you stand on the issues presented? I think I'm about 75%, maybe as high as 90% on Baker's side of the fence. The whole double-fold test seems quite bogus: many of my books fail it, but they are now where near crumbling to dust as the microfilming/digitizing/trashing crowd would have us believe.

skrevet af hashiru kl. 4:50 pm (EST) den May 17, 2008

I would appreciate the MP3 quite alot. I love Stapledon's work, and would appreciate knowing a bit more about the book itself, in terms of the ideas behind it.

skrevet af rojse kl. 11:19 pm (EST) den May 11, 2008

Thanks, Bob - I needed that :-)

skrevet af hashiru kl. 1:40 pm (EST) den May 3, 2008

Thank you for the Melissa Scott recommendation, I will put it on my list.

skrevet af PeterKein kl. 7:30 pm (EST) den May 1, 2008

I'm a little unclear about the LOC labels. Is Patty putting them on your real books, or is there a fillip somewhere in LT that allows them? I definitely wouldn't have the patience myself, although a younger self started a card catalog of my then much smaller library using 3x5 cards. The difference was that I invented my own cataloging system. I still have some of those cards lying around that I use for notes and scrap paper at times. I'm currently reading "Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker. I tried the double fold test on one of those cards, and even though the card has turned brown at the edges, it survived the test.

skrevet af hashiru kl. 10:05 am (EST) den May 1, 2008

Was your comment re Clyde Edgerton due to the fact that I have 5 of his books in my library? (I've actually read 7 and I may have loaned out the other two: "Raney" and "The Floatplane Notebooks" and not gotten them back) I have enjoyed all the ones I've read; they were spread over 11 years so maybe that helped me not to get bored. It's been almost 9 years since the last one and I think he has a recent one out, so maybe it's time again.

I'm impressed that you've met (know?) him. I can't say I'm personally acquainted with any of the authors that I've read.

skrevet af hashiru kl. 5:10 pm (EST) den Apr 11, 2008

I did in fact read "The Calcutta Chromosome" (finished Sept. 6, 1998 according to my reading diary). I don't remember much about it to be honest, but I do remember being excited to read it. I underlined 7 vocabulary words in it: souks (p. 15), charpoy (p. 98), kurta (p. 121), charpoy (again, p. 155), paan-wallah and chowkidar (p. 180; I've since learned what a paan-wallah is after listening to "The Death of Vishnu" by Manil Suri on tape), Bradshaws (p. 254) and dacoits (p. 261 - also have an idea about that one as well)

I highlighted a passage on pp. 126-127 which I found amusing:
"Antar keyed in a query asking how long the whole procedure would take.
Ava took a moment to answer. It would mean sifting through about six thousand eight hundred and ninety-two trillion cunabytes, came the response, in other words, roughly eighty-five billion times the estimated sum of every dactylographic act ever performed by a human being. It was certain to take at least fifteen minutes."

Other brief quotes I underlined:
"... he's lived in China so long he can skin a python with chopsticks." (p. 68)
"--Lutchman sticks to him like roll-on deodorant. ... Lutchman almost never lets Ron out of his sight. He gets pretty good at doing luggage impersonations" (p.76)
"Most of them are dickheads who'd believe you if you told them that Plasmodium was Julius Caesar's middle name." (p. 88)

I also liked another passage (too long to quote) starting in the middle of p. 187 and featuring "hanking and panking."

Seems like it might be worth a re-read.

skrevet af hashiru kl. 5:23 pm (EST) den Apr 8, 2008

Thanks again, Bob for calling out LT on drs-readers. I got hooked - big time - and have pretty much finished entering my books, some of which are a little suspect: piano music, a couple of runnings pubs that have ISBN's but don't really seem like books at all, etc. - but what the hey :-)

There is a new Border's "hi-tech" store that has opened less than a mile from where I work, and on my way home. So I suspect the count will begin to creep up slowly over time.

skrevet af hashiru kl. 8:30 am (EST) den Mar 2, 2008

Hey, thanks for the comment back in November. I think I like Patricia McKillip more every time I read her, and I think you're totally right about the magical realism recognition if she wasn't writing in English. For me, she's the fulcrum between the classic, high fantasy tradition and magical realism. She pushes the American fantasy genre to the limits. Someday I'll get the rest of my library up. :)

skrevet af jennybeast kl. 7:56 pm (EST) den Jan 11, 2008

is there an easy way to take tags from other libraries that have been attached to a book and add them to one's own description? i think i'm missing something obvious.I asked about this months ago, and others said they preferred to come up with their own tags. As far as I know, they haven't done anything like that yet.

skrevet af readhead kl. 1:19 am (EST) den Jan 3, 2008

Hi, just letting you know that I've changed my username from sfwench to read_head. So when you see the new name in your Friends list, it's still me!

skrevet af readhead kl. 7:33 pm (EST) den Jan 2, 2008

Wow, your sister really was lucky! I loved E. Nesbitt too. I started reading sf&f when I was 6 or 7, with Eleanor Cameron's Mushroom Planet books, L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time, and Edward Eager's books.

MLS: Library Science? I have a theory, maybe you can back it up: I've noticed a much greater proportion of "readers" among redheads than the rest of the population. I doubt it's simply because we avoid the sun and stay indoors to read, but I think it's partly because (as my dermatologist told me) we tend to be "atopes", sensitive skin and allergies, etc. Atopes tend to be above-average intelligence, so maybe that plays into it. Have you noticed the greater number of readers among redheads?

Moi, my red was never carroty, more coppery. But, alas, it's darkened a lot and fringed with white when I don't cover it up. :D

skrevet af readhead kl. 12:08 pm (EST) den Nov 29, 2007

I enjoyed your comments at my library. We do seem to have similar tastes. Love the photo; we're clearly from the same era. You're the redhead? Me too. I'll give more priority to the authors you recommend, thanks! Did you enjoy the Vonarburg? I haven't read her yet.

skrevet af readhead kl. 10:45 am (EST) den Nov 29, 2007

I really enjoyed your gravitation poem on the PFool group. I love concrete poetry in general, and this is a very good example. I rotated it 90 degrees left and it reads well that way, too. Thanks for posting.

skrevet af jburlinson kl. 6:12 pm (EST) den Nov 28, 2007

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