doomed

[mostdays]

help! out of books.
suggestions?
best case: readable fiction without prominent Alzheimer's or nursing homes.
failing that: anything.

Comments

[freakengine.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten and Thursday Next: First Among Sequels).

I also enjoyed Peter Farrelly's The Comedy Writer.

[benma.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, reviewing your lists, I'm afraid you've finished up your quota of good books. Your choices are as follows:

* Are You a Unicorn? The Mission and Meaning of Unicorns
* Thomas Kinkade - Painter of Light
* anything by Kevin J Anderson
* Selling by Phone: How to Reach and Sell to Customers in the Nineties
* Meet the Star's of Dawson's Creek (sic)
* The Big Betrayal: How Jesuits Murdered Abraham Lincoln

[neophoenix.livejournal.com]

A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (if you have not read it already).

If so, check out World War Z by Max Brooks or Boomsday by Christopher Buckley.

[stationary-jew.livejournal.com]

Are You a Unicorn? is more of an essay, really. Should be treated as a pallet cleanser.

[most-days.livejournal.com]

you are cruel men.

[most-days.livejournal.com]

i quite like Fforde. i even read the Jack Spratt novels.

[stationary-jew.livejournal.com]

I don't think misspelling "palate" is that bad.

[freakengine.livejournal.com]

I loved the Nursery Drime Division. Unfortunately, there do not appear to be any more on the horizon.

[benma.livejournal.com]

Alternately, I've become a big fan of Gene Wolfe, although I have absolutely no clear idea if you'd like him. His short story collections (Storeys from the Old Hotel, Innocents Aboard) and his big epic saga ("The Solar Cycle" - start with Shadow of the Torturer) are radically different; you might favor the short stories.

Most interesting nonfiction I've read in a while was Who Killed Chaucer?, edited-more-than-written-by Terry Jones. It's highly speculative, and like so much of its type is a hundred times better at raising interesting questions than answering them, but insists on trying anyway. But it's a fascinating glimpse of an interesting period, and of our misconceptions of that period.