About, about, in reel and rout
I’ve finished the redesign of my books page. After recently adding ratings and ASINs for most of my books (in prep for uploading things to LibraryThing.org), I decided to also reflect that information on my book web page. However, doing so caused the page to balloon from a (kinda) reasonable 170K to over half a meg. This prompted me to finally split the page up into sub-pages, the largest of which is only 40K. Things, I think, are more manageable now.
This leads me to a request. Meg & I are heading down to Portland in a few weekends, and my wanted books list is down to a pathetic 38 entries. So I ask two things — check out my new book page and let me know what you think, and then recommend me a book or two that you think I might like. I would hate to go to Powell’s and only be able to get 38 books!
Thanks.
Pretty much anything by Jack McDevitt.
It turns out I already have a McDevitt books, and I liked it, and it’s part 1 of a series that I didn’t know existed! So, I put the other 3 from that series on my list, as well as “A Talent for War” which seemed cool. Thanks!
Warning — A Talent for War is the first in another series (the others being Polaris and Seeker). Both series are comprised of completely independent novels, however. They are in no interesting way “trilogies”, they just happen to take place in the same universe and with some of the same characters.
Jim Thompson – The Grifters
Florence King – With Charity Toward None
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
Bruce Sterling, all/any
Cintra Wilson – A Massive Swelling
Cintra Wilson – Colors Unbecoming To Nature
Geoffrey Sampson – Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction
Karen Elizabeth Gordon – The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
R. M. W. Dixon – The Rise and Fall of Languages
Robert Eckstein – XML Pocket Reference (2nd Edition)
Richard Rodriguez – Brown
John Horgan – The End Of Science
Spalding Gray – Swimming to Cambodia (the book)
Vernor Vinge – Marooned in Real Time (also available in a volume called Across Realtime)
Olaf Stapledon – Last And First Men and Starmaker (two novellas usually put in the same volume)
Jack Weatherford – Indian Givers
Greg Egan – Permutation City
Ken Grimwood – Replay
Stuart Langridge – DHTML Utopia
James St. James – Party Monster
Eric Partridge – Origins
John Ralston Saul – Voltaire’s Bastards
Cool suggestions, thanks.
I actually already have and have read Permutation City, the Stapledon, most of Bruce Sterling, and the Vinge. I have but have not yet read Writing Systems, based on your previous recommendation.