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
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“Writer’s block isn’t not being able to write. It’s thinking that everything you write is shit.” - Maureen McHugh
Buy
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Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Books to stick on the ‘Buy Sometime’ list
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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
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www.sfsite.com/10b/cl114.htm [sfsite.com]
www.januarymagazine.com/SFF/chronoliths.htm [januarymagazine.com]
www.mervius.com/books/chronoliths.htm [mervius.com]
www.sff.net
Self Publishing
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www.xlibris.com
www.superiorbooks.com/
posted by Jackdaw @ 1/7/2004 12:31:30 PM
