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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:30 pm
We're opening a new cafe, a place for people to relax and enjoy themselves. In addition to tables and chairs, there are bookshelves--bookshelves around the walls, bookshelves forming the sides of cozy nooks, and little bookshelves on top of convenient surfaces here and there.
This is a new place, however, so the bookshelves are empty. What should we put on them? The shelves are virtual, so there is plenty of room for all types of books, and (the best part) you can donate your treasured and much-read copy of your favorite book and still keep it for yourself.
So--what's on the shelves?
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:46 am
Eric by Terry Pratchett. It was the first Pratchett I read and so I'm very fond of it. Even though it was the start of probably a lifelong problem. wink
Oh, and no bookshelf is complete without a full set of the Hitchikers' 'trilogy'. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:11 pm
Mysteries. Lots of them. Especially those by Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy Seyers, Ellis Peters, and Carola Dunn.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:05 pm
i liked The Daughter if Time by Josephine Tey, and i have all of Dame Agatha's books, including the lesser lights such as Parker Pyne, Detective.
my own favorites are classic mature fantasy, like LOTR, William Morris, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, James Branch Cabell, and George MacDonald.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:10 pm
I have a bit less of a mature mind when it comes to books, I happen to like some of the more young adult oriented books.
My personal Picks:
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.
The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce
and, possibly, The Faerie Chronicles, By Herbie Brennan.
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:55 pm
i like Sue Grafton, her Alphabet series about a fiesty female P.I is great 3nodding
There's a lot of Stephen King on my shelves, Dean Koontz gets in there too, though not so many of his as he's often not up to scratch.
i like Ellis Peters too, i have nearly all the Cadfael books, plus the Heaven Tree trilogy, and The Knocker on Death's Door.
d**k Francis is a favourite of mine too, he writes thrillers 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:38 pm
Be warned: Lots of fantasy books.
n.n
All of Tamora Pierce's books
Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series
Green Rider by Kristen Britain (but not First Rider's Call)
The Sookie Stackhouse paranormal mysteries by Charlaine Harris
The Undead and... series by MaryJanice Davidson
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
The anthology Familiars
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold
The Wolf series by Jane Lindskold
The Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix
Pretty much anything by Robin McKinley
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith (or both Crown Duel and Court Duel)
Inda by Sherwood Smith
The Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
Anything by Patricia Briggs
The Decoy Princess and Princess at Sea by Dawn Cook
And there are more, I just want to move on now. n.n"
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:52 pm
a friend of mine gave me Eragon and Eldest for Christmas, while it is painfully obvious that the author is rather young, it doesn't detract from their enjoyability 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:35 pm
NightIntent Be warned: Lots of fantasy books. n.n All of Tamora Pierce's books Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series Green Rider by Kristen Britain (but not First Rider's Call) The Sookie Stackhouse paranormal mysteries by Charlaine Harris The Undead and... series by MaryJanice Davidson Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn The anthology Familiars Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold The Wolf series by Jane Lindskold The Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix Pretty much anything by Robin McKinley Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith (or both Crown Duel and Court Duel) Inda by Sherwood Smith The Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede Anything by Patricia Briggs The Decoy Princess and Princess at Sea by Dawn Cook And there are more, I just want to move on now. n.n" i have Garth Nix, Robin McKinley, and Patricia Wrede. to those excellent modern authors i would addL Robert Holdstock Charles DeLint John Crowley Emma Bull Patricia McKillip C.S. Lewis since i left him off the other list i like Terry Brooks "Knight Of The Word" short series Terry Windling Tad Williams Janny Wurts
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:52 pm
A resounding cheer to Night for the Tamora Pierce, whom I also added, and for the Nix. I forgot about that...
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:12 pm
Anne McCaffrey's dragon series, and Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody series
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and lots of manga too. ^-^
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:35 pm
you definitely must have Dante's inferno and other dark peotry like stuff from Edgar Allan Poe for late night lattes
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:29 pm
mmm.... lattes...
I might also conisder getting the cafe a Borders card.
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:19 pm
Linleyjd you definitely must have Dante's inferno and other dark peotry like stuff from Edgar Allan Poe for late night lattes I like John Ciardi's translation, although i've only read the Inferno and Purgatorio but he somehow got the cadence and 3x3x3 rhyming and stanza structure set into modern active-voice English, which is a genius piece of work if you ask me
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:02 pm
I've read some of Sayer's translation.
Oh--and did I mention Dorothy Sayers needs to be on the shelves? And G.K. Chesterton.
Definitely Mckillip should be there, I agree.
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