What Should I Read Next (2nd edition)?

HomeInMyShoes · 08-16-2012, 11:14 AM

It's time to play everyone's favourite [sic] game, What Should I Read Next? Last time I headed off to the middle of the Earth in Jules Verne's classic. Most of this round's selections are pretty light and easy given that I've had a difficult first two-thirds of the year completing my required reading list.

Of the write-in selections from the last vote, I only didn't read D'artagnan Romances. I did read The New York Trilogy, and I am just finishing up The Shadow of the Wind.

issybird · 08-16-2012, 11:34 AM

Something by Ismail Kadare. Several are going for a trivial sum at Kobo and the 45% off coupon works.

HomeInMyShoes · 08-16-2012, 11:49 AM

I know you've mentioned Kadare before. I think it might make me cry. Anything in particular I should look at. The Concert seems to stand out to me as a must read and it would have made next year's list if it wasn't for Chatterjee's August, English.

If only I had a Kobo instead of a Kindle.

I see The Ghost Rider and the Successor are available at my library right now.

issybird · 08-16-2012, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

I know you've mentioned Kadare before. I think it might make me cry. Anything in particular I should look at. The Concert seems to stand out to me as a must read and it would have made next year's list if it wasn't for Chatterjee's August, English.

If only I had a Kobo instead of a Kindle.

I see The Ghost Rider and the Successor are available at my library right now.

By all means read a library book first. If you like him, he's still cheap at Amazon, if not as cheap at Kobo. Sorry about that--I can't keep track of who strips'n'shifts and who doesn't (I don't, myself).

So far, I've greatly enjoyed Chronicle in Stone and Agamemnon's Daugher. Perhaps I'll read The Concert next.

HomeInMyShoes · 08-16-2012, 12:43 PM

I am definitely sold on trying to fit Kadare into my required reading list for next year, but I'm having a hard time giving up Chatterjee, Bukowski, and Galloway right now.

I have to laugh at "read a library book first". This year's score: e-books 16 paper 8 paper from the library 25. My favourite site on the Internet: mobileread. It's blasphemy I tell you

Belfaborac · 08-16-2012, 02:13 PM

Of the ones mentioned I'd go with Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl. I loved pretty much everything about it, from the protagonist to the inventiveness of his bleak vision of the future. Not a happy book, but very, very good.

View Poll Results: What should I read next?
M.Y.T.H Inc. In Action by Robert Lynn Asprin	2	18.18%
The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi	3	27.27%
So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane	1	9.09%
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan	1	9.09%
Stardust by Neil Gaiman	3	27.27%
Boom! by Mark Haddon	0	0%
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut	0	0%
Other, because you know me better than myself.	1	9.09%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 11. You may not vote on this poll

08-16-2012, 11:14 AM	#1
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	What Should I Read Next (2nd edition)? It's time to play everyone's favourite [sic] game, What Should I Read Next? Last time I headed off to the middle of the Earth in Jules Verne's classic. Most of this round's selections are pretty light and easy given that I've had a difficult first two-thirds of the year completing my required reading list. Of the write-in selections from the last vote, I only didn't read D'artagnan Romances. I did read The New York Trilogy, and I am just finishing up The Shadow of the Wind. Last edited by HomeInMyShoes; 08-16-2012 at 11:17 AM.

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08-16-2012, 11:34 AM	#2
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,502 Karma: 236076651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Something by Ismail Kadare. Several are going for a trivial sum at Kobo and the 45% off coupon works.

08-16-2012, 11:49 AM	#3
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	I know you've mentioned Kadare before. I think it might make me cry. Anything in particular I should look at. The Concert seems to stand out to me as a must read and it would have made next year's list if it wasn't for Chatterjee's August, English. If only I had a Kobo instead of a Kindle. I see The Ghost Rider and the Successor are available at my library right now.

08-16-2012, 12:43 PM	#5
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	I am definitely sold on trying to fit Kadare into my required reading list for next year, but I'm having a hard time giving up Chatterjee, Bukowski, and Galloway right now. I have to laugh at "read a library book first". This year's score: e-books 16 paper 8 paper from the library 25. My favourite site on the Internet: mobileread. It's blasphemy I tell you

08-16-2012, 02:13 PM	#6
Belfaborac Wizard Posts: 1,498 Karma: 5199835 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Norway Device: Sony PRS-505, PRS-950	Of the ones mentioned I'd go with Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl. I loved pretty much everything about it, from the protagonist to the inventiveness of his bleak vision of the future. Not a happy book, but very, very good.

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