December meme, day 1
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ysobelThere are still days open! Go suggest topics for me :D. Else I shall be forced to, idk, write more poetry, or picspam baby niece, or something. ...wait, those aren't really punishments.
Favourite books, what are they about and why do you like them. :)
Five favorites, in no particular order:
* Barbara Hambly's Windrose chronicles (in particular the first two, Silent Tower and Silicon Mage). Brief summary: a slightly gawky/awkward computer programmer gets kidnapped to another world where an evil wizard is trying to take over, and she end up allying with a rather adorable not-quite-sane wizard to try to, well, survive. Antryg (the not quite sane wizard) has rather Holmesian deductive abilities, which tends to get him in trouble. The first book makes my heart ache in places because I know things that the characters don't, and they make perfectly reasonable assumptions given what they know, but I love the characters, and the world, and Antryg manages to hit some sort of narrative kink I have that I can't quite put info words.
* Watership Down. Because rabbits, and also because of the lapine mythology and the storytelling. I have a fondness for mythologies that involve trickster gods, of which El-ahrairah definitely counts. It also makes a good audiobook to listen to while going to sleep.
* Midnight Riot / Rivers of London. Smart-ass geeky fannish police officer in London discovers magic exists. I like it for the worldbuilding, for Peter's irreverence and the fact that the shortcuts he takes or invents sometimes help but sometimes make things worse, for the fact that it is totally not whitewashed.
* Good Omens. Because Terry Pratchett (and Neil Gaiman, though I am less enamored of him than I used to be) writing about the apocalypse that didn't happen? Is just plain awesome. And hilarious. And then there's Aziraphale and Crowley being awesome in the way that only angel+demon BFFs can be.
* Spock's World. Because Spock. And Vulcans. (This, along with Pandora Principle aka my favorite Saavik book, were frequent rereads in high school.)
Favourite books, what are they about and why do you like them. :)
Five favorites, in no particular order:
* Barbara Hambly's Windrose chronicles (in particular the first two, Silent Tower and Silicon Mage). Brief summary: a slightly gawky/awkward computer programmer gets kidnapped to another world where an evil wizard is trying to take over, and she end up allying with a rather adorable not-quite-sane wizard to try to, well, survive. Antryg (the not quite sane wizard) has rather Holmesian deductive abilities, which tends to get him in trouble. The first book makes my heart ache in places because I know things that the characters don't, and they make perfectly reasonable assumptions given what they know, but I love the characters, and the world, and Antryg manages to hit some sort of narrative kink I have that I can't quite put info words.
* Watership Down. Because rabbits, and also because of the lapine mythology and the storytelling. I have a fondness for mythologies that involve trickster gods, of which El-ahrairah definitely counts. It also makes a good audiobook to listen to while going to sleep.
* Midnight Riot / Rivers of London. Smart-ass geeky fannish police officer in London discovers magic exists. I like it for the worldbuilding, for Peter's irreverence and the fact that the shortcuts he takes or invents sometimes help but sometimes make things worse, for the fact that it is totally not whitewashed.
* Good Omens. Because Terry Pratchett (and Neil Gaiman, though I am less enamored of him than I used to be) writing about the apocalypse that didn't happen? Is just plain awesome. And hilarious. And then there's Aziraphale and Crowley being awesome in the way that only angel+demon BFFs can be.
* Spock's World. Because Spock. And Vulcans. (This, along with Pandora Principle aka my favorite Saavik book, were frequent rereads in high school.)
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Date: 2014-12-02 09:05 am (UTC)The ending of the first Windrose book just kills me every time. And I agree about Antryg.
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Date: 2014-12-02 11:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-02 02:09 pm (UTC)and I just laugh. because no.
(amazing and excellent and YES MORE LAPINE MYTHOLOGY PLEASE)
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Date: 2014-12-03 09:57 pm (UTC)