o, books

[jazzfish]

So I finished rereading the Hitchhiker's trilogy, for the first time in, oh, probably fifteen years. (Side note: holy cow is Mostly Harmless ever a depressing book. It's really good-- it may be the best novel of the lot-- but, yow.) And now I find myself with an embarrassment of riches.

In Vancouver I picked up a copy of Anathem, which I am told is a Neal Stephenson book with an ending. Thing is, it's Big, and bulky, and kind of annoying to carry around. It's much easier to carry Heat of Fusion, and I've been meaning to get back to that for awhile, prompted by a reread of "Chromatic Aberration" for a sadly moribund discussion forum. But I've also been meaning to reread Wolfe's Long Sun and Short Sun series, so I can pick up on some of what I missed the first time through. (devouring The Sorcerer's House last week did not help matters here.)

Or I could go with my original plan and reread the Dirk Gently books. I worry that that'll be too much DNA all at once. I did pick up a copy of King Rat at Stone Ridge last weekend, I could always finally read some of Mieville's stuff. And of course there's Ratio, a book about cooking, which I got from uilos last year and have been slowly wending my way through.

And then I remembered, I have a paid account for just such an eventuality!

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[jazzfish]

Of course! I'd lost track of Necessary Beggar in the multiple piles of newer new stuff. That'll probably end up being It.

[desfido.livejournal.com]

Upon mention of Chabon, I must ask: have you read

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

yet? It's quite good. Like the first Flashman book, it's in the category of "Books I bought at an airport bookstore that are actual damn good and I reread, instead of just taking up some time on plane once and then being forgotten".

Actually, I think I got both of those at the SFO airport bookstore, possibly even the same trip. Huh.

[desfido.livejournal.com]

I screwed up my HTML there, but it's still readable, so I'm not touching it. Stupid lack of "edit this comment" functionality. Or else, stupid lack of Jay's awareness of how to access "edit this comment" functionality.

[marcmagus]

Edit is a paid-user-only feature, IIRC. :(

[jazzfish]

Yeah, my aunt Susan gave me K&C for Xmas, um, ages and ages ago. I thought it was pretty good. Probably worth a reread at some point but I'm not quite feeling the pull to reread it now.

(Also, I suspect that only paid users can edit comments.)