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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What Was the Name of That Book?

30 June 2008, 7:41 pm. 6 Comments. Filed under Reading.

I remem­ber read­ing a book – no, a series – in the early 90s or so. The clear­est mem­ory I have is that there was some sort of drug that made any­one who took it “perfect” – healthy, beau­ti­ful, ath­letic, etc. It was also addic­tive after just one dose, and there was no way to get off it – to stop tak­ing it meant death. The main character’s wife was dosed with it so that the sup­pli­ers could con­trol the hero. I think the pro­tag­o­nist was white, and seem to recall that his wife was described as hav­ing an Afro.

Does that trig­ger any mem­o­ries for anyone?

 

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