I’ve spent the day sloughing through online book reviews and opinions. When I do stuff like this it all goes back home in an email; which I promptly forget about. Email is the worst communications media ever. Anyway, in an attempt not to lose information that my google/slashdot adventure has provided – BLOG POST. Quote ===== “Writer’s block isn’t not being able to write. It’s thinking that everything you write is shit.” – Maureen McHugh Buy === Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces Books to stick on the ‘Buy Sometime’ list ===== Stephen Brust – Phoenix Guards Japanese Haruki Murakami – A Wild Sheep Chase – Dance,Dance,Dance - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle* – Norwegian Wood* – South of the Boarder, West of the Sun – The Elephant Vanishes (Short Stories) *Start with David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest Kazuo Ishiguro – The Unconsoled banana yoshimoto – kitchen – lizard (short stories) Kobo Abe – (Google it) Other nations Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep – A Deepness In The Sky Space Operas Greg Benford – In the Ocean Of Night – Across The Sea Of Suns Robert Charles Wilson – The Chronoliths Mixed reviews, starts great and ends poor. Glen Cook – The Dragon Never Sleeps Out of print? Reviews ====== http://www.sfsite.com/10b/cl114.htm [sfsite.com] http://www.januarymagazine.com/SFF/chronoliths.htm [januarymagazine.com] http://www.mervius.com/books/chronoliths.htm [mervius.com] http://www.sff.net Self Publishing =========== http://www.xlibris.com http://www.superiorbooks.com/ posted by Jackdaw @ 1/7/2004 12:31:30 PM