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Short fiction. Chas Send a noteboard - 06/02/2011 03:49:50 PM

We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle

or

Map of Dreams by M. Rickert.

and I'll second the The Shadow of the Wind recommendation.

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I need a book. A good book. A book that I will enjoy. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:51 AM 1666 Views

Zadie Smith - White Teeth. Legolas - 06/02/2011 11:31:06 AM 1532 Views

Spring Snow looks good, thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:32:51 PM 656 Views

The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... jh - 06/02/2011 12:57:01 PM 1467 Views

Re: The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... Dreadlord - 12/02/2011 09:24:55 PM 1354 Views

I recommend.... LiterateDog - 06/02/2011 02:41:48 PM 1626 Views

Sounds fun. I'll check it out. Thanks.

*NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:27:48 PM 630 Views

+1 random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:10:27 PM 1380 Views

Short fiction. Chas - 06/02/2011 03:49:50 PM 1367 Views

Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? That's been translated into English. Tom - 06/02/2011 05:09:55 PM 1259 Views

I keep starting it and having something else come up. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:30 PM 1487 Views

I am with Tom on this one Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:00:21 PM 1199 Views

The Black Prism by Brent Weeks was pretty good *NM* Fox and Ravens - 06/02/2011 09:20:58 PM 620 Views

Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Novo - 06/02/2011 09:52:43 PM 1253 Views

Sold me on the Jesuits. I'll check it out. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:25:25 AM 640 Views

Maria V Snyder - Poison Study *NM* Yunalesca - 06/02/2011 10:03:51 PM 936 Views

Different things. Decadant things. Larry - 06/02/2011 10:10:52 PM 1243 Views

Haven't read any Vandermeer, actually. You recommend him? Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:26:35 AM 1325 Views

Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him Larry - 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM 1477 Views

I'll put him on the list. Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 08:50:15 AM 1326 Views

Good Larry - 07/02/2011 09:21:59 AM 1294 Views

I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French. Tom - 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM 1265 Views

I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM 1397 Views

Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from. Legolas - 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM 1265 Views

Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers? jh - 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM 1265 Views

Not really, no. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM 1318 Views

Huh. Belgians. *NM* jh - 08/02/2011 07:23:05 AM 604 Views

irish libraries are probably 2/3 paperback to 1/3 hardback *NM* Stephen - 09/02/2011 12:00:11 AM 646 Views

I think you have two different questions there random thoughts - 07/02/2011 10:08:40 PM 1294 Views

Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM 1308 Views

so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks random thoughts - 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM 1322 Views

Yes, that's definitely a factor. Legolas - 09/02/2011 07:30:14 PM 1356 Views

Re: Yes, that's definitely a factor. Camilla - 09/02/2011 07:39:25 PM 1348 Views

Have you tried Anne of Green Gables or Middllemarch? Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:16:51 AM 1268 Views

Have you read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss? *NM* Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:18:30 AM 642 Views

Anything by PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Stephen - 07/02/2011 03:21:43 AM 1266 Views

Or, indeed, Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth books Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:01:15 PM 1206 Views

Julian Comstock random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:12:39 PM 1549 Views

You might like Quicksilver. *NM* Camilla - 07/02/2011 07:09:32 PM 754 Views

Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, esp. Good Omens (w/Pratchett). More recommendations inside ... Bookwyrm - 08/02/2011 05:43:22 PM 1490 Views

The Man Who Was Thursday! cabbage - 18/02/2011 12:44:56 PM 1228 Views

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