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lwoodblooI'm what you might call an avid reader. I love it. I read on the train, at work, and when I'm relaxing. I can read anything, from true crime stuff to Bridget Jones' Diary. Good reading, by the way.
My favorites lately are kind of off kilter science fiction/fantasy. China Mieuville wrote a really messed up book called Perdido Street Station that I still think about three months on. I like Neil Gaiman, the atmosphere that he projects in print is astounding, it's as good or better than if the books had pictures to illustrate what he's trying to say. Tim Powers and Gaiman really live in the same world, it's a lot like ours, but with this thin veneer of magic and mysticism that you don't see everyday. Kind of like the rainbows you only see when you squint REALLY hard. In my old age (hah) I've become really disenchanted with Lord of the Rings derived, I hit him with my sword or cast fireball fiction. There's SO much bad fantasy fiction out there, and sci fi too. It's nice to find stuff that's not totally cliche. Oh, yeah. Neal Stephenson too. I like Neal. Cryptonomicon is sex. If I could find a woman who's read that and can quote it to me, I'll marry her on the spot. But she has to listen to good music too.
My favorites lately are kind of off kilter science fiction/fantasy. China Mieuville wrote a really messed up book called Perdido Street Station that I still think about three months on. I like Neil Gaiman, the atmosphere that he projects in print is astounding, it's as good or better than if the books had pictures to illustrate what he's trying to say. Tim Powers and Gaiman really live in the same world, it's a lot like ours, but with this thin veneer of magic and mysticism that you don't see everyday. Kind of like the rainbows you only see when you squint REALLY hard. In my old age (hah) I've become really disenchanted with Lord of the Rings derived, I hit him with my sword or cast fireball fiction. There's SO much bad fantasy fiction out there, and sci fi too. It's nice to find stuff that's not totally cliche. Oh, yeah. Neal Stephenson too. I like Neal. Cryptonomicon is sex. If I could find a woman who's read that and can quote it to me, I'll marry her on the spot. But she has to listen to good music too.
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Date: 2003-10-27 02:38 pm (UTC)Antenna searches
Retriever's nose in the wind
Ether's far secrets'
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Date: 2003-10-28 05:40 am (UTC)December....perhaps?
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Date: 2003-10-27 05:48 pm (UTC)Mieville I've heard good things about, but haven't had time to pick up yet.
Steven Brust has yet to write a bad book. His prose is sort of like Gaiman's, distilled down to its essence and not quite so smooth.
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Date: 2003-10-28 07:12 am (UTC)I LIKE his rambles.
And Mieville is spookalicious.
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Date: 2003-10-28 12:21 pm (UTC)Shit.
Okay, be on later, like 10. Gonna try something diff.
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