Enemy of Entropy

Jane Austen/​Other Book Recommendations?

4 April 2009, 3:18 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Reading.

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Um, I’m want­ing some­thing to read, and the libraries are being very slow about ful­fill­ing my hold requests, so I’m look­ing for old stuff that’s good and prob­a­bly on the library shelf just wait­ing to be loved. I think I might try some Jane Austen, as I recently real­ized that I never have, but the excerpts I’ve seen are wit­tier than I expected. I’m not fond of romances or “chick lit” or such things, which is where I’ve place her books.1

If I’m going to try them, where should I start? Any other authors/​books you think I should try?

I don’t care to read doom-​​filled, depress­ing sto­ries. There’s enough of that in the real world, and I can always go look at the news. I want to read about smart, like­able peo­ple doing inter­est­ing things while ban­ter­ing wit­tily. Humor is impor­tant, but goofy slap­stick non­sense looses me. I HATE HATE HATE “do some­thing obvi­ously stu­pid, try to get out of the result­ing mess” plots.

I’ve read Lois McMas­ter Bujold, thanks :-) Well, all the Vorkosi­gan uni­verse stuff, any­way. Her fan­tasy books have never inter­ested me, for some odd reason.

Thank you :-)

1 I think to some extent I got her all mixed up with the Brontës when I was a teen, and damned if I wanted more of that nonsense.

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1 Comment »

  1. avatar Fractional Airplane. 18 April 2009, 8:02 pm

    A friend of mine intro­duce me to what we call The Tril­ogy. Unre­lated but they go well together in this order–
    Sid­dhartha — Her­man Hesse
    Con­fed­er­acy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole
    Tor­tilla Flats — John Steinbeck

    Also, an oldie but goodie, favorite of mine is James Clavell of Shogun fame. Read his Asian nov­els in order, lot of fun.

 

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