Ok, I'm going on holiday for 2 weeks in a month or so and my shelf is bare so I need a shopping list for a big trip to Borders (or possibly Amazon). The only things I can remember that have been recommended to me recently are Light by M. John Harrison and The Scar by China Mieville. So, recommend me stuff. It doesn't have to be genre. It doesn't have to be novels. It does have to be available in paperback in the UK. Stuff by authors I haven't read yet particularly welcome (although most of you probably don't know what I've already read so that's not particularly helpful :) ).
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Date: June 30th, 2003 07:26 am (UTC)From:By the way, if you think you are going to be spending lots and lots and would like 30% off we could arrange to meet up in Blackwells sometime and present my discount card just before you present your credit card... :)
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Date: June 30th, 2003 07:52 am (UTC)From:Here's another one for you: Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones - one of my favourite books of all times, lots of layers and meanings and such...
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Date: June 30th, 2003 07:28 am (UTC)From:Other than that, I'm sure you mentioned you'd read "Carter Beats the Devil"? Are you up to date with your Christopher Brookmyres? I've just reread "The Sacred Art of Stealing" and I'd forgotten how good it is.
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Date: June 30th, 2003 08:00 am (UTC)From:Also recommended is Palestine by Joe Sacco. "Graphic Journalism", it's the result of Sacco's two month stay in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in late 91, early 92.
Last book I read was Broken Angels by Richard Morgan. Some good, stylish fun. Possibly better to start with Altered Carbon, which is noir SF versus BA's more military spin. Morgan plays around with downloadable consciousness, cool weapons and ultraviolence.
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Date: July 1st, 2003 01:59 am (UTC)From:Otherwise...Ian R Macleod's The Light Ages is being compared to Mieville. I haven't read Mieville, but it's a damn fine novel. The Rediscovery Of Man by Cordwainer Smith is old but great. The Cities collection, for A Year In The Linear City alone.
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Date: July 1st, 2003 05:59 am (UTC)From:and now for something
Date: July 1st, 2003 03:26 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)Memoirs of a Thinking Radish by Peter Medawar; anything by Loren Eiseley or Lewis Thomas (perhaps Late Night Thoughts is a little grim for your hols); Marion Glasscoe's edition of Julian of Norwich: Revelation of Divine Love; the selected poems of Antonio Machado (ed. by A.S. Trueblood) and for fun, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, by Wendy Cope, another collection of poems. Sadly, the only pbk edition of Han Shan's poems about Cold Mountain is about 50 quid ;-( or else I'd recommend that as well.