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So yous guys.

I graduated today. (Well, I walked. I still have three more finals. idk either.)

BUT THE POINT OF THIS POST ISSS. Um. My momma got me a Sony Reader for my graduation. It lets you read books on it. BA in English lol what is that. ANYWAY, she gave me a gift card, too, and I'm eager to try the thing out, so... Because I'm terrible and have forgotten how to read for entertainment or whatnot:

RECOMMEND ME SOME BOOKS, Y'ALL

I will compile a list.

PLUS THIS IS A GRAND OPPORTUNITY FOR US ALL TO LEARN ABOUT EACH OTHER VIA LITERATURE PREFERENCES. OR WHATEVER.

... I'm excited. >>

She brought me Tiramisu too goddamn I love my mother.

P.S. This is my first post to GDS. Hi.

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"The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" (http://www.tsspivet.com/) by Rief Larsen (one of my all time favorite books EVER, about a 12 year old genius boy who has very little idea on how to be social)

"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel" (http://www.jonathanstrange.com/) by Susanna Clarke (Revisionist history of England where magic is real but has been forgotten. If Childermass was a real person, I'd probably marry him)

"The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency" (http://www.mccallsmith.com/botswana.htm) by Alexander McCall Smith (A delightfully charming series of books about two women in Botswana who decide to start a detective agency)

The Dresden Files (first book is Storm Front) by Jim Butcher (Fantasy fun about a harried wizard who can never get electronics to work for him)

UMMM Goodreads is a great site if you want to find good books: www.goodreads.com

Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (Which is the story of a young boy and his father, a story teller, who has lost his Gift of Gab. Short and sweet and absolutely hilarious)

An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet (How Her Royal Highness the Queen started to read books)

Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock, but that's a seriously interactive book and you NEED to have the physical in your hand because half the fun is pulling open the letters inside

OH I FORGOT ANYTHING BY WALLY LAMB

OH OH AND Inkheart by Cornelia Funkheart (about a little girl who's dad can read books to life IGNORE THE MOVIE)

IDK I HAVE A TON I'll rec more if you'd like

Edited 2009-12-13 23:03 (UTC)

OMG KITCHEN IS SUCH A GOOD BOOK

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god Griffin and Sabine.

I still get confused when I read it.

I frigging LOVE that series. Have you read the others?

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Waifs and Strays by Charles de Lint
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev

+1 for The Book Thief

OH GOD THE BAROQUE CYCLE how I love thee

oh baby it's my favorite.

i actually am tempted to play rudy somewhere no lie

There's 3 of them, right? If so, then yes. But not for a long time.

/digs them out of her three bookshelfs

Slaughterhouse 5; Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle; Kurt Vonnegut
you know, just put anything by Kurt Vonnegut here

Catch-22; Joseph Heller
The entire works of Franz Kafka
Also pretty much anything by Hunter S. Thompson, though Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an absolute must - the movie IS fucking great, but that doesn't mean you should pass up the book in favor of it
Neuromancer; William Gibson
Oblivion; David Foster Wallace

ALSO IF YOU'RE INTO FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS OF THE CRUSADES I CAN TOTALLY GIVE YOU BOOKS FOR THAT

OR BOOKS ON COMIC HISTORY

OR JUST HISTORY IN GENERAL

LOLOLOLOLIMAHISTORYGEEK

Yes Neuromancer.

There are more now; he's finally finished the series with six.

Books, you say?

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon - that's the name of the trilogy.
Villains By Necessity, by Eve Forward. Probably my most favorite book ever, out of print and impossible to find in paper without paying an arm and a leg for it.
Anything ever by Tamora Pierce because she's wonderful.
The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams.

Can you tell I like fantasy? Those are what's on my brain right now. I might have more for you later~

AREN'T THEY JUST /flails at them

+1 Discworld! My favourites are the Guards books (especially Nightwatch, but you kind of have to read up to that one), Monstrous Regiment, and The Truth!

Okay, let's see, let's see. :>

Novels:
A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeiner
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, by Aimee Bender (actually, these are short stories - one of them is here (http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bender-skirt.html), if you're curious. very surreal, very fun!)
The End of Mr. Y, by Scarlett Thomas
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach (nonfiction)

Plays:
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard
The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter
Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet
The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh (this must go here)

Edited 2009-12-13 23:44 (UTC)

GOD, I JUST FINISHED READING THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR. <33333

+2 for Discworld. HOGFATHER HOGFATHER HOGFATHER.

And congratulations! :D :D

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, by Christopher Buckley
Lamb, by Christopher Moore
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Goldfinder (or any other James Bond book), by Ian Fleming
The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Manhunt, by James L. Swanson

+ 2 for The Book Thief.

WORLD WAR Z, FTW.

This site does not seem to have these books K.

I do like fantasy, but... I don't have a particular preference? I seem to like most anything, as long as the writing the bomb. >>

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