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Books!

Sun Aug 10, 2008, 8:17 PM
  • Mood: Yearning
  • Listening to: Winter by Tori Amos
  • Reading: Many Waters by Madeline L'Engle
So. I was fortunate enough to get to a Half Price Books on Saturday, which is a wonderful, happy place where all the books are at least half off (as the name implies). Picked up a couple Madeline L'Engle volumes, as well as Robin McKinley and Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. *insert happy dance here* Also, a Tori Amos CD. For $5. I was very happy.

SO. The point of this journal? Your favorite bookstores and/or authors. I love McKinley [The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword have influenced my writing soooo much, as well as Megan Whalen Turner's Thief of Eddis books], Tolkien, Karen Traviss, Stephen Crane's poetry, and several other people I can't call to mind at the moment. Half Price Books is my first choice, although since we have none within about an hour's drive of my house, Barnes and Noble is an acceptable substitute. You?

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`Memnalar Aug 10, 2008, 8:37:39 PM
Half-Price Books is love. We've got one here in town, with a coffee house (Cafe Calypso) that shares the space. It's our favorite hangout, natch.

Lots of different writers. William Gibson (Neuromancer, among many others) was the one who made me want to write, although I also love Orson Scott Card, George R.R. Martin, Jacqueline Carey, Glen Cook, Guy Gavriel Kay, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, etc.
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~ShadowsQuill Aug 10, 2008, 8:49:29 PM
Darling, do I really need to tell you?
I too loveOrson Scott Card
R.A. Salvatore, David Eddings, Heinlin, C. Stasheff, Piers Anthony, R. Mckinley, Anne McCaffrey, KT, any and all Star Wars, a little bit of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Ray Bradbury, Erik Scott deBie, Raymond E. Feist, Eoin Colfer, Mark Twain...
And I happened to really like Brave New World but ... that's just me.
And then there's countless others I'm just not thinking of just now...

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~Aranov Aug 10, 2008, 9:09:44 PM
Still need to read Anthony. And Atwater-Rhodes, presumably... Should have read more last semester. Colfer is good. Card is love. Twain is far too quotable ^_^

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~Aranov Aug 10, 2008, 9:14:51 PM
That is win. Books+coffee=love.

I LOVED Doyle when I was younger. Tried to make a deerstalker hat from two baseball caps. It was epic fail of course, since we didn't have two baseball caps that matched... XD I have heard good things about Martin. I think I'll look for his first in the library.

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I'm not cheating! I choose to look at it as utilizing all available resources.

My other transport is a Gladiator-class.
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~ShadowsQuill Aug 10, 2008, 9:15:46 PM
Yupyupyup.
Reading is happy. I'm reading Drow stuff right now. ^_^

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Nobody tosses a Mandalorian. They have jet packs.

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~VielGonzales Aug 10, 2008, 9:19:42 PM
Are those brand new books or resold ones? They pretty cheap for new books.

I love children's books, yeah I know I'm all grown up but I like books with pictures and drawrings. Laugh all you can people, I'm not ashamed. Most beloved books: Books by local writer Bob Ong (Ang Paboritong Aklat Ni Hudas, ABANAKAKABASANAPALAAKO), Kwentong Tambay, Dracula Doesn't Rock N' Roll, Bram Stoker's Dracula [link]=Dracula&rh=n%3A4%2Ck%3ADracula&;page=2 (No. 22 on the list), Children's Bible Stories (illusrated of course), A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court and some other funny stuff I which names I forgot.

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~Aranov Aug 10, 2008, 9:25:36 PM
Yayyy ^_^

You should bring some. Ones I haven't read.

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I'm not cheating! I choose to look at it as utilizing all available resources.

My other transport is a Gladiator-class.
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~ShadowsQuill Aug 10, 2008, 9:26:25 PM
Hm... That will depend on if I have room in Heather.

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Nobody tosses a Mandalorian. They have jet packs.

[link] Oya Mando'a! Oya!
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~Aranov Aug 10, 2008, 9:41:12 PM
Some of them are new, but it's mostly a resale shop.

Children's books have some of the most amazing art... I'm still considering illustration as a possible field. LOVE the original Dracula. Connecticut Yankee is amusing for the most part, but the ending is so horribly depressing...

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I'm not cheating! I choose to look at it as utilizing all available resources.

My other transport is a Gladiator-class.
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