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.
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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]
Self Publishing
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posted by Jackdaw @ 1/7/2004 12:31:30 PM
