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Jan. 31st, 2003 12:23 amI am writing this post from my new computer. That's all I really had to say, I'm just particularly delighted.
Jan. 31st, 2003
Cause, you know, books are my THING, man: (oh, and I stole this from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doctorpepper but I saw it several places before that)
Book you keep meaning to read that always gets bumped to second place by new purchases: Oh, only about MY ENTIRE LIBRARY OF UNREAD BOOKS. Hee. Occupational Hazard.
Book you put down halfway through and never got back to: _Seven Wild Sisters_ by Charles de Lint - I think because it has pictures and I want to curl up and read the whole thing uninterrupted, and have been too busy to do so. Maybe I'll save it for the springtime and go read it in the sunshine somewhere.
Book you love and can never convince anyone else to read: This is hard because I don't generally push really hard about people reading things, I'm more like the guy who opens his coat and there's so many different watches in there you can't help but fall in love with one of them... Perhaps _A History of God_ by Karen Armstrong, as I have tried and failed to get people to read it. And I do love it. Better yet, with even more pathetic failures of convincing: _Midnight Hour Encores_ by Bruce Brooks. I'm beginning to think my adoration of that one is just an individual quirk.
Book you'll never read no matter how many people tell you you should: _Who Moved My Cheese_ by, uh, Spencer Johnson I think.
Children's book that no one else remembers except you: I bet some wonderful one of you will have read this, but when I was looking for it and couldn't remember the title, no one else recognized it: _Jason's Quest_ by Margaret Laurence.
Children's book everyone seems to have read that you've never read / heard of: Er, my mother is a children's librarian and I run a used bookstore. I can't think of any. There was that one book with the bubbles thatentelein loves so well, but then she got all excited about it, and, well, I've heard of it now, haven't I. If it was just never read, and not never heard of, there'd be plenty, especially recently published young adult stuff, where most all I've read is Francesca Lia Block, Chris Crutcher, and Bruce Brooks. OH!!!! That reminds me. (see above)
Terrific book, terrible movie: The Neverending Story. Yeah, I know, I have a sentimental attachment to the movie too, but, really, compared to the book it sucks.
Book you loved on first reading which on subsequent readings wow, not so much: Hrm. Hrm hrm hrm. Uhhhhhhhhh... reaching back into the annals of time, _The Story Girl_ by L. M. Montgomery. I reread all her stuff over and over as a kid, but that one, I skipped everything except the framing story after the first time.
Most Overrated / Overhyped Book or Author:
Most Underrated / Misunderstood Book or Author:
Um, I don't know the answer for these two. Too Many Possibilities.
doctorpepper but I saw it several places before that)Book you keep meaning to read that always gets bumped to second place by new purchases: Oh, only about MY ENTIRE LIBRARY OF UNREAD BOOKS. Hee. Occupational Hazard.
Book you put down halfway through and never got back to: _Seven Wild Sisters_ by Charles de Lint - I think because it has pictures and I want to curl up and read the whole thing uninterrupted, and have been too busy to do so. Maybe I'll save it for the springtime and go read it in the sunshine somewhere.
Book you love and can never convince anyone else to read: This is hard because I don't generally push really hard about people reading things, I'm more like the guy who opens his coat and there's so many different watches in there you can't help but fall in love with one of them... Perhaps _A History of God_ by Karen Armstrong, as I have tried and failed to get people to read it. And I do love it. Better yet, with even more pathetic failures of convincing: _Midnight Hour Encores_ by Bruce Brooks. I'm beginning to think my adoration of that one is just an individual quirk.
Book you'll never read no matter how many people tell you you should: _Who Moved My Cheese_ by, uh, Spencer Johnson I think.
Children's book that no one else remembers except you: I bet some wonderful one of you will have read this, but when I was looking for it and couldn't remember the title, no one else recognized it: _Jason's Quest_ by Margaret Laurence.
Children's book everyone seems to have read that you've never read / heard of: Er, my mother is a children's librarian and I run a used bookstore. I can't think of any. There was that one book with the bubbles that
entelein loves so well, but then she got all excited about it, and, well, I've heard of it now, haven't I. If it was just never read, and not never heard of, there'd be plenty, especially recently published young adult stuff, where most all I've read is Francesca Lia Block, Chris Crutcher, and Bruce Brooks. OH!!!! That reminds me. (see above)Terrific book, terrible movie: The Neverending Story. Yeah, I know, I have a sentimental attachment to the movie too, but, really, compared to the book it sucks.
Book you loved on first reading which on subsequent readings wow, not so much: Hrm. Hrm hrm hrm. Uhhhhhhhhh... reaching back into the annals of time, _The Story Girl_ by L. M. Montgomery. I reread all her stuff over and over as a kid, but that one, I skipped everything except the framing story after the first time.
Most Overrated / Overhyped Book or Author:
Most Underrated / Misunderstood Book or Author:
Um, I don't know the answer for these two. Too Many Possibilities.
after some thought
Jan. 31st, 2003 11:28 amMost overrated: _The Stranger_ by Camus. I've read it in French, I've read it in 2 English translations, and I still feel pretty 'enh' about it. I get the feeling I'm not meant to be rolling my eyes at the narrator quite so much.
Most underrated: this is the really hard one, but today I'm feeling like it's anything by Peter Watts, Steven Gould, or Laura Mixon. Of the science fiction writers I wasn't already reading ten years ago, they are far and away my favorites, and while reviews have been generally positive, not enough people have even HEARD of them. Let alone read them. Go read them. Promulgate them. Make it so they can afford to write more books. I'll appreciate it.
Most underrated: this is the really hard one, but today I'm feeling like it's anything by Peter Watts, Steven Gould, or Laura Mixon. Of the science fiction writers I wasn't already reading ten years ago, they are far and away my favorites, and while reviews have been generally positive, not enough people have even HEARD of them. Let alone read them. Go read them. Promulgate them. Make it so they can afford to write more books. I'll appreciate it.
