Let's start the new year right

[larryhammer]

Fair warning: I'm the sort of person who has fun untangling headphone wires.

[Poll #643790]
---L.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The last third of Tipping the Velvet isn't as interesting as the first two-thirds, so if you weren't sufficiently compelled to finish the book immediately, you probably won't like it much.

I have never heard of most of the books you mention. What are they?

[larryhammer]

Song of Unmaking is dancinghorse's latest Luna book; Jerusalem Delivered is a chivalric epic, in translation; Arundel is a historical novel of the American Revolution. The others, I think you know.

---L.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

Gardens of the Moon by Stephen Erikson is an absolutely wonderfully written book!

[larryhammer]

<makes a note> Thanks!

---L.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

Be warned, however. It's the first of a series that I couldn't bear to put down. The first book can be read as a stand alone, although it wasn't written as one. But he's such a good writer that everyone I have suggested it to ran to the bookstore to buy the next ones.

[larryhammer]

Duely warned. Is the series completed yet?

---L.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

there are six of ten completed and two side novels of a couple of key supporting characters from the fourth or fifth book.

He's been extremely consistent putting his books out, unlike some other serial authors.

[larryhammer]

I may try the first then hold off on the others -- I'm twitchy about serieses that way.

---L.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you. Given the series that are currently out there and how they have been dragged out...

This one however, is worth it.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I couldn't suggest what to read next, mainly because I don't know what those books are. *g*

[larryhammer]

Picky, picky. Do you have something else to recommend?

---L.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. *g*

If you haven't read them yet-

Melusine by Sarah Monette
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
The Paper Mage by Leah Cutter

Those are a start anyway. :)

[larryhammer]

Read the first (liked) and third (liked with reservations), but don't yet have the second. Will add to the shopping list.

---L.

[maryosmanski.livejournal.com]

Oh bother. Somehow my eyes slid right over the third choice under "Why LJ?" so I didn't even know it was there after I'd picked something else and submitted my answers.

[larryhammer]

Janni says you can change your answers by retaking it -- there's a Fill Out Poll link at the top of the Poll Results page. I had not known this.

---L.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

We have need for both kinds of bags. Usually take plastic, but some paper bags are needed for a well-regulated life.

I haven't been utilizing the communities much, but I'm actually in one now that has some life. One score and three, skid!

I don't know these books, so I'll just say I, Claudius et seq. If you've already read 'em, read 'em again.

You should write whatever you feel like. You can end that sentence with the third word.

[larryhammer]

I suspect I'd get very annoyed if I reread the Claudius books -- largely because I've read several others by Graves since. Though I still have them, unlike his other novels, so it's on the table.

---L.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I've read one or two other things of his. Farewell To All That, The Islands of Unreason and My Shipmate Hercules (I think I have the title approximately right, there.). King Jesus is still waiting for the right moment.

But Claudius; I've read that three or four times now. Let's say three to be on the safe side. Pretty sure I haven't read it for the last time.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

I get plastic bags, because they are very handy, and I send my used bags to the library for people to take their books home in. (It rains a lot here, so this matters.)

Today I discovered that rereading old favorites is like cosying up in a warm blanket in a window seat while sipping hot chocolate: comfort. I might dig out Blue Sword yet again.

[larryhammer]

Good description of rereading. Yeah, it's like that.

---L.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I say The Unmaking because you wouldn't be able to look her in the eye if you don't.

By the by, I had dinner tonight with (among others) Amanda. She will be in Tucson at the same time I will and wants to meet up with you two again. Send me your tel number! We can arrange something.

And I loved the card!

[larryhammer]

I could too meet her in the eye, especially if I read Child of Flame next. Or the Odyssey -- she'd forgive that too.

But speaking of not meeting eyes, I, um, have forgetten when you're coming.

And thanks about the card. The picture's of a partially restored Roman theater outside Basel.

---L.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Alternately, no bag (if I have enough hands and/or a backpack on).

And, LJ as a way of thinking out loud.

[larryhammer]

Fair enough, that. Should have included that as an option.

---L.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I've read all of Kate's, except the latest. And I've an excuse. Several, in fact.

But the real reason I'm here is to wish you a healthy, secure and prosperous 2006.

Happy? Wotdat?

Actually, you all are pretty happy, no doubt, as is yours truly.

Love, tu amiga -- Constanza

[larryhammer]

The same to you!

---L.