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Nik
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| Posted 3/31/2008 9:46 PM (GMT -5) |   | von Darkmoor said...Charles Gramlich said...
5. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Alright, I guess I'm gonna have to add this to the TBR shelves. If somebody goes and includes it on their list of 10 recommended books to read on a lonely isle, guess it can't be too bad after all.
I reads it recently. Gotta get past the overuse of incomplete sentences and lack of quotation marks and apostrophes. (I still don't get it--I know he's trying to make a point, like the world is incomplete or something, but it's annoying at first). After that, it's a quick read, and well done.
Nicholas Ian Hawkins
Forthcoming
"Knowledge and Dust," in Magic & Mechanica, from Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
Published
"What Heroes Leave Behind," in Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, March 2008
"The Weald Maiden's Will," in Every Day Fiction, March 5, 2008
"Relativity," in FLASHSHOT, September 28, 2007
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Nathan Jerpe
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| Posted 4/3/2008 2:26 PM (GMT -5) | | | Some of these are from my entries in the Top 100 thread, which you should *definitely* consider endorsing :)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Siddhartha - Hesse
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Twain
The Once and Future King - White
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
The Mysterious Island - Verne
A Wizard of Earthsea - LeGuin
The Book of the New Sun - Wolfe
The Hobbit - Tolkien
These are my ten favorite, definitely NOT the ten I would take to a desert island though.
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Camille Alexa
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| Posted 4/4/2008 4:36 AM (GMT -5) | |
Not necessarily in order (and, as with many, my list is subject to change without notice):
A Billion Days of Earth (Doris Piserchia -- my current #1 for sure)
Earthchild (Doris Piserchia)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr)
I Capture the Castle (Dodi Smith)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party (M. T. Anderson -- one of the most powerful books I've ever read -- don't for a second believe it's "just" a YA book)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
We Have Always Lived In the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
A Fine and Private Place (Peter S. Beagle)
Superluminal (Vonda McIntyre)
Bridge of Birds (Barry Hughart)
Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
Deadwood (Pete Dexter -- WARNING --not like the series. I fell in love with this book in the '80s when I first read it. Amazing.)
---OOPs. More than ten. Sorry. I stop now.
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