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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!
What's it about?
Nah.