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robinmckinley

. . . even more books

Mar 16, 2008 23:28

It’s been a long day and I’m going to be sliding relentlessly and ingloriously under the table here shortly:

Nevil Shute. I like his stuff enough to have chased down every one of his books. One of my favorites is "Trustee from the Toolroom" -- about a so-called ordinary man who has the most extraordinary adventures saving his niece's inheritance ( Read more... )

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anonymous March 17 2008, 00:00:48 UTC

Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite and please, PLEASE, PUH-LEEEEEZE, don't leave me with images like taramosalata on spaghetti. No, no, no. How will this be erased from my mind. Don't go there. This is splatter blogging, you are injuring poor innocent minds. This image is blinding me...

There are Greeks who read this blog you know. Things like that hurt.

Susan from Athens

robinmckinley March 17 2008, 00:07:49 UTC

All you have to do is tell me what TOS stands for . . . :)

anonymous March 17 2008, 00:33:46 UTC

According to the Urban dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tos

Terms of Service
The Original Series (Trekkie specific)
Tub of Sh*t
Tongue out smilie

and a couple of others I don't quite get.
My nerd credentials are very well established, but my techie ones are infant in some cases and tarnished in others.

Susan from Athens

shakatany March 17 2008, 15:59:17 UTC

I believe it stands for The Original Series (of Star Trek).

Shakatany

jade_sabre_301 March 17 2008, 00:17:26 UTC

Oh! oh no! I see in your previous post that you are adverse to reading The Queen of Attolia because of minor dismemberment! No no no! Do not allow this to deter you! The Thief has no dismemberment, and the scene in The Queen of Attolia happens at the very beginning and is about half a page long. No graphic descriptions, no tawdry titillation, just--boom. Over and done with. The book's about dealing with it (among other things, and so many wonderful things). Please. It's not violent or grotesquely horrific at all. It's all about politics and depression/dealing with it and the nature of romance and oh oh oh so wonderful. My favorite books in the whole world. *flails*

danceswithpahis March 18 2008, 06:20:09 UTC

I have to second this. The scene in question is short, easy to skim, and there is nothing else like it in the book. And while I winced when I first read that part (I too am a wuss in this area), I've found while rereading the books I actually really appreciate the fact that she included this. I've read other books where something similar happens (or where a character appears already missing a few parts), but this is one of the few where the author takes a look at what this really means for the character, and how his life is affected (in both good ways and bad) by this loss (because the actions set in place by the political decision causing him to lose his hand are profound and far-reaching ( ... )

fyrebyrd March 17 2008, 00:48:48 UTC

Gahh! I don't generally have the time to keep up with reams of comments, but especially since you put them up for us... I keep finding authors that I love and need to read/re-read more of, or ones that I remember seeing and then forgot about, or ones I'd never heard of and suddenly go OMG Need to read ( ... )

taliabriscoe March 17 2008, 01:01:22 UTC

William Goldman, not Golding is the author of the Princess Bride. It really is a wonderful read, he has a very humorous and entertaining voice.

blackbear88 March 17 2008, 01:05:21 UTC

Stephen Jay Gould. Yes, yes yes. His early death was a great loss to humanity, and to my library development--I've read nearly everything he's written, and he renewed my love of science long after I'd stumbled off down the humanities path in academia. He makes me want to go back to school. AGAIN.

For those'ns who feel the same way, particularly about evolutionary biology, you might also like Natalie Angier's The Beauty of the Beastly. And one of my very favorites is Stephen Asma's book on the culture of natural history museums, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads. It's utterly fascinating--and I'm not just saying this because I work in the museum field. It's a great examination of how current taxonomy developed in (sometimes) completely arbitrary ways, and how we got from kunstkammeren-type displays of natural oddities (the pickled heads of the title) to the American Museum of Natural History and its brethren. Funny, engaging, a great read ( ... )