Booking through Thursday: Six Degrees of Booking

[parelle]

Booking Through Thursday

This was suggested by Mary.

Connect any six books in your library to each other by any way you want. One book will remind you of another because the author's name is similar, a fictional character shows up in someone else's book, another author is talked about by characters in a book, maybe the same friend recommended

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[rosemaryinwheat]

Yes, this was fun, wasn't it?

I've been wanting to re-read To Say Nothing of the Dog for a while, and now it's even stronger. Darn you!

Cate

[ornithoptercat]

Start with: China Mieville Perdido Street Station, which I am forever recommending to people.

He's also got an entry in a fabulously odd anthology called Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead's Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (caveat lector: there are a few in there which you can contract simply by reading about them).

Neil Gaiman has an entry in there too, and also has a collection of short stories called Smoke and Mirrors (particularly recommended: "Chivalry" and "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale").

Also by Neil Gaiman, but lavishly illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (the guy who did the character designs for Final Fantasy 3/6): Sandman: The Dream Hunters. It's rather loosely linked to the Sandman series of graphic novels, but stands very well alone.

From there by connection both with graphic novels and Japanese artists, the 1st volume (translated) of the manga Rg Veda, which is by the manga group Clamp, and therefore full of really pretty, elaborate clothing. (Clamp also made Card Captor Sakura, if that gives you any idea of the

[yechezkiel]

I like how you credited The Princess Bride to its fictional author. :P

[nineveh_uk]

That is indeed a fantastic idea, and some nice connections.

I finally read “To Say Nothing of the Dog” recently, having come across so many mentions of it on LJ, most of which referred to the Peter Wimsey connection (no bad thing!). And I thought it was terrific, if marred by the lapse in the author’s otherwise decent research that led her not to follow the first rule of historic Irish names: if it isn’t Mary, check it’s really an Irish name! I could just about close my eyes and ignore Colleen until it was mentioned that she had a sister called Sharon... Honestly, I can suspend my disbelief, but don’t ask me to hang, draw and quarter it!