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As you may know, I have a new apartment! I intend to do much cooking in it as I advance rapidly towards self-sufficient adulthood. Unrelatedly, as you probably do NOT know, I just ordered a Kindle offa Amazon.
Thus, I want two things from you all!
1. Recipies! Give me recipies that you like, and I will try them out, and rate them on a scale of one to awesome.
2. Books! Give me books that you like, and I will assimilate them into my magical reading box.
GO
Thus, I want two things from you all!
1. Recipies! Give me recipies that you like, and I will try them out, and rate them on a scale of one to awesome.
2. Books! Give me books that you like, and I will assimilate them into my magical reading box.
GO
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alternatively tell me three of the books you like and that you have now
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Tobias S. Buckell - Crystal Rain
David Weber - The Honor of the Queen
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1. Pendragon series - it's written for children, but overall very gung-ho, adventurous, and deals with sci-fi Arturian legend. Think City of Ember with world-hopping. Boys in my class said they liked it and it was the first time I realized that boys read, too.
2. Life of Pi - You probably have already read this, but in case you haven't, philosophy on a canoe with a tiger.
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - Historic setting, wry and funny writing, serious subject matters, may actually contain a busful of nuns in proximity to explosions if I'm thinking of the right book.
4. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - I have been wanting to read this book for years now and I will be hopping mad for any spoilers but! It deals with Marco Polo describing the collapse of cities and from all the snippets I have read, it is awesome in a book.
5. Vonnegut. Duh.
6. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
7. The Maltese Falcon.
8. If you have any interest in mystery at all, Christie's The Orient Express and And Then There Were None are pretty much what I consider staples.
9. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson - I want to read this.
10. Isaac Asimov. Duh. Though ngl, most of the Foundation series's endings had me very, very impressed.
11. Dune by Frank Herbert. I could not make it past the first volume, but very highly-acclaimed. Go forth without me.
12. Arthur Clarke?? From what I heard, staple of sci-fi community.
13. Chronicles of Narnia?? Or even any Tolkien outside of the Trilogy, it tends to be less heavy.
14. Silverwing?? Totally grasping.
15. Orson Scott Card, Ursula le Guin...
16. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE by George R. R. Martin - read it read it read it
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - might not be for you since it's Austenesque and Dickensque in both using it and wryly subverting it. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
18. Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley Zimmer - really long, Arturian legend from the women's point of view, awwww yeah.
19. Neil Gaiman??
20. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - ... really... long... but maybe you'll like it? As long as you're not too confused.
21. Watership Down??
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Life of Pi I have been meaning to read for some time!
Owen Meany sounds interesting and fuck yeah nunsplosions.
Invisible Cities sounds interesting.
Vonnegut I'm not so big on.
I wonder if I can get Clockwork Orange for free due to classic.
Maltese Falcon I think I saw the movie of? I dunno eh.
I may try out some Agatha Christie sure.
What's Notes about?
I'm oddly picky about my SF actually.
I've read Dune, and I hear the sequels are all worse.
Same about the picky SF, the only one of the big SF Stories With Twist Endings That Make You Think guys I really love is Phillip K. Dick.
Read it. I'm curious as to how they're gonna do a movie of Dawn Treader without everyone involved just doing huge amounts of LSD.
Silverwing? Don't know it.
I know these names at least in passing. What did they write?
Too loooong
Yeah I kind of can't stand Austen sadly.
Arturian Legend is pretty rad.
Loved Neverwhere, not really big on his other stuff as much!
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Nah.
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In case you don't have it anymore: the most awesome (and easy) lemon cake recipe ever!
1 Box lemon cake mix
1 Box lemon jello mix (about the size of a deck of cards)
4 Eggs
3/4 cup oil
3/4 cup water
Mix everything together until there are no lumps and bake as directed on the box!
Most awesome lemon cake topping ever!
Lemon juice and powdered sugar mixed to desired consistency. Pour over top of baked cake. If making cake instead of cupcakes, poke the baked cake with toothpicks to allow all the goodness to soak in.
Remember to only fill the cupcake holes about 2/3rds full otherwise it'll overflow!
I can't believe I have that recipe memorized...
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Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Best damn example of the genre. Starts with the character at seventeen (okay, in what's technically the second book, he's a major player, but he's also a fetus so uh)
I recommend starting with The Warrior's Apprentice, but there's two prequel-ish novels starring the main protagonist's parents.
Basically it is about a young SPACE NOBLEMAN in a very conservativeish society in which he is kind of not perfect for because they hate mutants. He's not a sexy awesome sort of mutant, either - basically, the two important things are that he is incredibly short and his bones are hella brittle which is a pretty sucky thing in a militaristic society! Fortunately, he is legitimately clever - like, not in the sense that the author says he's clever when all she's doing is making the other characters idiots in comparison, he's just crazy brilliant and it comes off that way.
His thing is basically coming up with a simple plan, and then things go horribly wrong, and then there's lots of scrambling around and making up plans on the fly and it is glorious. It shifts around a bit - last few books, he's been in his thirties and he's been settling down a bit and not breaking into and/or out of heavily guarded prison camps but there's still plenty of space adventure.
The world-building is awesome - there's somewhere between a dozen and half a dozen planets/societies (it's a long series) that get a major focus, and the history and general attitudes (and occasionally regional attitudes if it's a particularly cosmopolitan place or if there's on-planet traveling) and it's just pretty well thought out.
I could gush for hours on his delicious flaws and awesome love interests and awesome family and how he has some pretty realistic deep angst moments which the supporting cast generally doesn't let him drag on with and the comedy oh man the comedy he's got the best internal narration ever and then there's the philosophy angle...
tl;dr You should read it.