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?

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[developer.livejournal.com]

You can use the library exchange program and have maynard send the books to your library.

I actually just finished 5 myself, I have been buying them but I also do book culls where after I read something I make a judgement on whether it stays or goes. I have a pile that are ready to go!

[tygerwillow.livejournal.com]

i have all of the sandman 6-10 if you'd like to borrow them. i should get to goffee one of these days...

[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

What am I reading?

I just finished this (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/345), and this (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10007) and I'm currently reading a biography/critique of Honore de Balzac.

[wench33.livejournal.com]

Urban Fantasy ? If that means what I think it means check out Terry Brooks "A Knight of the Word" series ? Running with the demon, a knight of the word, and angel fire east (which sydneycat is going to loan me as I haven't read it yet) I liked them.

I also liked the "serrated edge" series by Mercedes Lackey with other authors.

[silentq.livejournal.com]

I'm reading the Faery Reel anthology right now, which I think you'd like - lots of stories about the fey, with quite a few set in urban environments.
Next up is Cities with stories by Mieville, Moorcock, Fillipo and Ryman.
Both were nabbed from the library, for once from the same branch I was in rather than from my regular abuse of inter library loan. :)
(Good Omens is actually a reprint, if that's the NG/TP one you're talking about)

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[dancer.livejournal.com]

"I actually just finished 5 myself, I have been buying them but I also do book culls where after I read something I make a judgement on whether it stays or goes. I have a pile that are ready to go!"

I've been doing that with books I already own, but I'd rather not buy $100 of new books just to give away :)

Sandman Series

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"i have all of the sandman 6-10 if you'd like to borrow them. i should get to goffee one of these days..."

That would be very cool, thanks! :) I promise I won't hoard them forever. I haven't seen you in a while, but its not like you live 100 thousand miles away (so getting them from and back to you shouldn't be a big deal). :)

[stormcloud9.livejournal.com]

i think i'm number 6 or 7 - borrowed from fox_gabriel. good stuff, eh? i'd like to get a copy of the dream hunters, and i seriously would love a lithograph of amano's portrait of morpheus.

have you seen neverwhere? if i'm not mistaken, the book was written AFTER they did the miniseries. it's a bit odd and kind of cheesy, but if you can get past the budget-induced cheese and questionable score, it's pretty good.

[andrewfeland.livejournal.com]

If you like urban fantasy, pick up any of the Bordertown novels or collections of short stories. I recommend Finder by Emma Bull.

[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.

Neverwhere

[dancer.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Neverwhere yet. He really wrote the book after the series? Weird!

[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.