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Trying to get lost in a good book
Feb. 11th, 2009 02:30 pmIn the past 24 hours, I have offered comfort to friends in the form of an LOL cat and a picture of a cow. This possibly says something about my flist, and possibly says something about me. Possibly both.
While I think of it, and before I get to the point of this post (yes, I have one :P), Morocco postcards are starting to arrive in various locations around the world. The observant among you will have noticed that many of them have British stamps on them. Sadly, although I could afford to buy 30 postcards in Marrakech, I couldn't afford the high postage costs to get them where they needed to go, so many of them came from the UK. Every single one was written in Morocco though, so it's only the stamps you've been cheated of. Sorry about that, but needs must.
Anyway, the point of this post was to pick your brains, since I seem to have used all mine up. My evidence for this is that while I remembered to plug my MP3 player in to charge overnight, because the battery is on its last legs and needs daily charging, I forgot to put said battery into the player. I swear, if I had a brain, I'd be dangerous.
Anyanyway, I currently have a £25 Blackwell's voucher burning a hole in my wallet, and don't have a clue what to buy with it. Most books I want, I can get from my local library for a maximum of 80p reservation fee, plus the fines when I don't finish them and forget to take them back. I'm much less well read in classic literature than I am in classical literature, mostly because Jane Austen and I don't get on, and I don't have the stamina for Dickens. So tell me, dear friendslist, what should I buy with my shiny shiny gift card? I'm looking for books that I'll read over and over again, that I won't mind still having on my bookshelf in ten years time. My tastes tend to the adventure end of the spectrum, with comic leanings nice but not compulsory. Having tried various 'high fantasy' classics, I don't think they're for me, and I quite enjoy sci-fi and fantasy that's more of a sideways look at life than Epic Quest.
Any thoughts? Anything that you cannot believe I haven't read? Because I probably haven't. Anything that's going to set me off on the kind of love affair I had with Amelia Peabody until the cast of the books got too big and the stories got sacrificed to it? I'm a completist, so long series are definitely my kind of thing, as well as fat novels that I can get lost in completely.
Thank you!
ETA Suggestions so far (because apparently my flist doesn't think I need food, sleep or work):
ETA2: OH GOOD GRIEF, PEOPLE, I GET IT! Enough with the Dresden Files already ;) Who am I to argue? *adds to shopping cart*
( There's now enough of these that I'm having to put them under a cut... )
While I think of it, and before I get to the point of this post (yes, I have one :P), Morocco postcards are starting to arrive in various locations around the world. The observant among you will have noticed that many of them have British stamps on them. Sadly, although I could afford to buy 30 postcards in Marrakech, I couldn't afford the high postage costs to get them where they needed to go, so many of them came from the UK. Every single one was written in Morocco though, so it's only the stamps you've been cheated of. Sorry about that, but needs must.
Anyway, the point of this post was to pick your brains, since I seem to have used all mine up. My evidence for this is that while I remembered to plug my MP3 player in to charge overnight, because the battery is on its last legs and needs daily charging, I forgot to put said battery into the player. I swear, if I had a brain, I'd be dangerous.
Anyanyway, I currently have a £25 Blackwell's voucher burning a hole in my wallet, and don't have a clue what to buy with it. Most books I want, I can get from my local library for a maximum of 80p reservation fee, plus the fines when I don't finish them and forget to take them back. I'm much less well read in classic literature than I am in classical literature, mostly because Jane Austen and I don't get on, and I don't have the stamina for Dickens. So tell me, dear friendslist, what should I buy with my shiny shiny gift card? I'm looking for books that I'll read over and over again, that I won't mind still having on my bookshelf in ten years time. My tastes tend to the adventure end of the spectrum, with comic leanings nice but not compulsory. Having tried various 'high fantasy' classics, I don't think they're for me, and I quite enjoy sci-fi and fantasy that's more of a sideways look at life than Epic Quest.
Any thoughts? Anything that you cannot believe I haven't read? Because I probably haven't. Anything that's going to set me off on the kind of love affair I had with Amelia Peabody until the cast of the books got too big and the stories got sacrificed to it? I'm a completist, so long series are definitely my kind of thing, as well as fat novels that I can get lost in completely.
Thank you!
ETA Suggestions so far (because apparently my flist doesn't think I need food, sleep or work):
ETA2: OH GOOD GRIEF, PEOPLE, I GET IT! Enough with the Dresden Files already ;) Who am I to argue? *adds to shopping cart*
( There's now enough of these that I'm having to put them under a cut... )
