Books

[dancerjodi]

I've been catching up and working on reading the Sandman Series of books 1-5 that I had purchased years ago. I started into them, put them down, couldn't remember what I had read, so I started with 1 again (I'm sure I lose major goth points for this, as though I had any left to lose). I started 4 last night, and seem to be getting through them pretty quickly now. I also have and have read The Dream Hunters. Does anyone have books 6-10 and also Endless Nights, who wouldn't mind lending them to me? I could buy them, but in that whole quest to not accumulate clutter and not knowing if/when I'd read them again, I'd rather not. The library is an option, but none of the ones around me seem to carry them (and I don't feel like driving out to Maynard or some place like that if I can just borrow from a friend.

At some point I'll make my way through the other Gaiman stuff. I did own Neverwhere at some point on paperback, and I started it, but couldn't get into it. I think I was at a busy/awkward time in my life, where I didn't seem able to get through any books that weren't school related. I'm going to see what I can find of his at libraries, because I'm a huge fan of urban fantasy, religions and mythology, and his writings seem to follow along those lines. I'm not expecting the new one with Terry Pratchet to be easily available via a library soon, but I have a lot of catching up to do.

Similarly, I LOVE Charles De Lint, and there's a bunch of his I haven't yet read. Can you suggest any other similar authors I should check out at some point that follow this same general theme?

What are you reading right now?

Comments

[iterum.livejournal.com]

the new one with Terry Pratchet

If you mean "Good Omens," that should be readily available; maybe there's a brand new edition, but it first came out when I was in college.

For urban fantasy, besides De Lint, the first things that come to mind are Emma Bull's "War for the Oaks," the "Bordertown" shared-world series edited by Terri Windling (out of print, I think, but there's a fairly recent best-of collection called something like "The Essential Bordertown"), John M. Ford's "The Last Hot Time" (Elven street gangs in Chicago!) and some of Steven Brust's novels set in the modern world (especially "The Gypsy," which even has its own folk-rock soundtrack available by Boiled In Lead). A lot of these are, or were, certainly in the Cambridge Public Library (because I read many of them there) and so should be interlibrary-loanable.

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "Good Omens" was recently reissued with some new introductory material.

The Sandman's are being reworked as well, with some recoloring and inking for some issues that were not quite up to snoff when they were originally done, so for anyone who is thinking ofbuying them, you might want to hold off for a bit.