From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #76 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, January 24 1999 Volume 03 : Number 076 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Favorite books (still is a lot of stuff) [katrin@dimensional.com (Kat] Re: Favorite books (still is a lot of stuff) [vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin)] Re: top five books [Molly Doyle ] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin L] Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. [chad schrock ] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com] Re: top five books [LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com] Re: top five books [bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors)] Re: top five books ["KatieWow" ] Re: Shakespeare ["KatieWow" ] Re: please wish me luck ["KatieWow" ] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [tsalyers@dimensional.com (Tom Sa] Re: Shakespeare (was Jewel Kilcher etc) ["KatieWow" ] Re: please wish me luck ["KatieWow" ] Re: please wish me luck [LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com] Re: Favorite books (still is a lot of stuff) ["KatieWow" , petit_chou@juno.com says... All right, I can *never* think of "my favorite anything" when asked directly, so I hope it's all right if I just comment on some of the books mentioned by other people... > *Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [Bokonon rules] > *Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [short stories from my > favourite author? Is there anything better?] > *Any Other Kurt Vonnegut Novel [because he is Satire Incarnate.] Yessssss, another Bokononist in our midst! I'm a huge fan of Vonnegut's work, though I've met the man in person and was quite disappointed by his behavior toward us fans that particular day. Anyone who hasn't read Vonnegut yet, rush right out and find some! Warning: These books will put you in a very odd state of mind. Not that that's a bad thing. > *Griffin & Sabine Trilogy - Nick Bantock [amazing art, engrossing story. > A man receives mysterious letters from a woman he's never met. So begins > this extraordinary correspondence.] OOoooooooo yeah! This reminds me I MUST get my G&S trilogy back from the friend who borrowed it over a year ago. Bantock's latest, _The Forgetting Room_, is done in the same style and is just as outstanding. Zainab also mentioned _The Silver Metal Lover_ by Tanith Lee - That one's somewhere on my list too 'cause it's illustrated by one of my heroes, Trina Robbins (I should break down and buy a copy of that book). And then Vika invoked the name of Umberto Eco, of whom I haven't read much, but _Foucault's Pendulum_ is definitely worth the effort it takes to get through it. And now I'm thinking of some of my own favorites, of course... For children's books (some of which I re-read every couple of years even now), no one can touch Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The Green-Sky Trilogy (_Below the Root_, _And All Between_ and _Until the Celebration_) has been my all-time fave since I was 11. They're now out of print, and I've been trying to find another copy to give my nephew. If anyone finds them, let me know! _archy & mehitabel_ by Don Marquis - 1920s-era social commentary that stands the test of time, written in the character of a cockroach who types by jumping on the keys of a newspaper columnist's typewriter. Illustrated by the great George Herriman, the only person whose art I have so far seen fit to have permanently etched on my body ;) Anything by Jonathan Carroll. He defies description, but I'll try...Ordinary people with ordinary lives, with a big ol' element of the weird and supernatural plunked down in the middle of things. Many of his characters overlap (main character in one book is a friend-of-a-friend of the main character in another, etc.). He's an American living in Europe, and so are a lot of his most interesing characters. Run right out and find some of his stuff. You will not be disappointed. Right now I'm getting into _Dictionary of the Khazars_ by Milorad Pavic, which is published in a "male" and a "female" version, each with only one paragraph different (great marketing gimmick, eh? Yeah, I bought both). It's translated from the Serbo-Croatian and is sort of an "ancient mystery" involving several religious sects, along the lines of Eco. Very different. So far it appears I'll need to read it twice, anyway, to get the full gist of the thing. Congratulations if you made it to the end of this post, and thanks to all the rest of you suggesting some interesting reading! k@ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:49:14 GMT From: vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin) Subject: Re: Favorite books (still is a lot of stuff) katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) delighted us with: >And then Vika invoked the name of Umberto Eco, of whom I haven't read >much, but _Foucault's Pendulum_ is definitely worth the effort it takes >to get through it. In case anyone's interested in him further, and thinks the name rings a bell but can't place it, he's the guy who wrote the book (from which followed the movie with the same name) _The Name of the Rose_. Another wonderful piece of work. Intrigue, death and mystery in a 13th (I think) century monastery. Vika Zafrin vika@ibm.net "I feel like I just gave birth. To a DAT tape." -COM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:36:53 -0600 From: Molly Doyle Subject: Re: top five books Zainab wrote: > _The Silver Metal Lover_, by Tanith Lee > On one hand this is a little-known sci-fi romance novel. On > the other hand, it is amazingly good at capturing the nature > of obsessive love. I would honestly recommend it to anyone. OH MY F**KING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kneel at your feet, my dear. Finally I have encountered another human being who has not only HEARD of this book, but also recognizes its merits! You've made my day. :) Wow. My Honors Thesis at the University of Oregon was a playwriting project--I adapted _The Silver Metal Lover_ into a stage play. Alas, I will never be able to perform it; the publisher holds the rights to the book. I only got away with the project by making it clear that it was STRICTLY ACADEMIC, and that I would ritually eviscerate myself before even CONSIDERING trying to publicly perform it *grin* But I really related to the main character in high school (my IRC nickname is Jaen to this day :)), and writing the play was a fascinating experience. OK sorry to get so excited *grin* but hardly anyone I talk to has ever *heard* of this book! :D - -- Molly Doyle http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/6759 "You know you've been raised Catholic when your automatic response to "May the Force be with you," is "And also with you, my son." --a friend ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:32:05 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) In article <36ab99cc.3583901@news.ucdavis.edu>, nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org says... > I also just finished of a pair of well-regarded hard SF novels, > William Gibson's _Neuromancer_ and Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_. > (I'm in an artificial intelligence class this quarter...) Both were > good, though of the two I preferred Snow Crash. Oh, I *heart* Snow Crash! And so does Tom! (If you only knew how many times both of us think we should have "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed across our foreheads...) And would it be way out of line here for me to mention my own illustration of a "Gibson Girl"? http://www.dimensional.com/~katrin/g- girl.htm. I was so proud of my dad when he saw that picture and got the reference. :) k@ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:46:39 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. koogle@my-dejanews.com wrote: > chad schrock wrote: > :) > > > > Oh, Mountian stage schedule around here: > > WXPN (Philadelphia): Saturday night, 6-8 (a/k/a: right now) > > WRNR (Annapolis/Baltimore): Sunday night, 8-10 > > FWIW, WRNR is availble on Real Audio, at http://www.wrnr.com whoops! forgot about that. thanks. > Just for those of you who don't happen to get a station that > runs Mountain Stage. > > (RNR is the coolest radio station in the DC area, but roughly > four ppl can hear it because their transmitter isn't very > strong....) Only to the west. It comes in great in Annapolis and the Eastern Shore. :) (I lose the signal just after I go west of 95 in Columbia, usually.) - -- chad at radix dot net I could dance with the devil on a Saturday night. If I wanted to. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 00:40:34 GMT From: kdsinthhal@aol.comatose (KdsInThHal) Subject: Re: Fw: Fwd: Ra-cha-cha humor >>> > You ask lifettime residents where the George Eastman House is, but >they >>> > don't know either. >>> > >>> > In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new >>> > sports stadium with no roof on it. lol, those are so true... geeez... it's kinda sad.. ;) sarah linnellgirl@tmbg.org ~ icq:26873712 http://members.aol.com/kdsinthhal/ "we need you to rescue us from boredom" - the superfriendz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:08:46 GMT From: ctyner@my-dejanews.com (Adam Tyner) Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) I guess the Hitchhiker's Trilogy goes without saying , but other books I've read recently that I've enjoyed immensely include "Adventures In A TV Nation" by Michael Moore, "XTC: Song Stories" by XTC & Neville Farmer, anything and everything by Cecil Adams, and "Everything I Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger" (or something like that; I lent it to a friend and haven't gotten it back yet) by Lloyd Kaufman. - -Adam ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:34:24 -0800 From: Becky Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) petit_chou@juno.com wrote: > > I have some friends > who are addicted to Robertson Davies, and they loaned my the Deptford > Trilogy. I've only just started reading, but it's pretty cool already. > Any thoughts? > I love Robertson Davies and thoroughly enjoyed the Deptford trilogy. My favorite so far, however, is _A Mixture of Frailties_, which is part of the Salerton trilogy (haven't read the rest yet). > Ugh. William S.Burroughs?!? You *seen* that guy?!? My friend Faith and > I always scream when they sing "cuddle up with William S. Burroughs" > cause the thought of it is just too too horrid. : ) I agree that Burroughs doesn't seen like he would have been a cuddly type of guy. Has anyone read his stuff? I tried to start _Naked Lunch_ twice and couldn't really understand it... Hey, this book thread was a fabulous idea! I've already written down several suggestions on my "books to read" list. As others have pointed out, it's hard to commit to 5 favorites, so I'll just say that these are the first 5 good books that come immediately to mind: _The Mists of Avalon_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley Telling of the Arthurian legend from Morgan le Fay's point of view. I've seen this book criticized by Arthurian "scholars" for being inaccurate, but it's a wonderful story. Focus is less on Arthur and his knights and more on the impact that the rise of Christianity had on priestesses, etc. _Zorba the Greek_ by Nikos Kazantzakis Surprisingly enough, this book tells the story of Zorba the Greek. I wish I could be more like that guy! _Lost in the Cosmos_ by Walker Percy Subtitled "The Last Self Help Book" or "How you can survive the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists, and 100 million fundamentalist Christians,..." Percy asks some interesting questions. _The Heart of the Matter_ by Graham Greene _An American Tragedy_ by Theodore Dreiser Thanks again for the book suggestions! Becky PS On a completly different topic, why doesn't Ticketmaster have more 800 numbers? The horrendous surcharges are bad enough, but having to make a long distance call really just pisses me off. As someone before mentioned, anyone going the Philly show should just call the Troc directly: (215) 922-6888. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:32:39 GMT From: LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) > >Which leads to one more possible thread ... what are the NG folks' top > >five books? I totally agree with Heather. There is no way I could limit it to top five books. I am one of those people who likes almost anything I read. For crying out loud I find my textbooks interesting. Now, I would never call these my top books, but they are ones I have certaintly enojoyed. If I were to ever write my top favorite books it would have to be almost any book I have read except for maybe two. "The Golden Compass" by (ack i forgot!!!) I do have to say this, this has to be my favorite book, or at least one of my favorite favorites. Don't listen for a summary, just go out and buy the book. "Human Croquet" (i forgot the author of this one too!) Another must read, I couldn't put it down. "They Cage the Animals at Night" (I forgot the author) A young adult book about a boy who lived in orphanages, and they gave the children stuffed animals, but took them away at night. He hides the animal under his pillow and takes it with him to the different orphanages. "Matilda" by Roald Dahl. Another children's book about a girl who is incredibly bright with dimwitted parents. She gets taken under the wing of her teacher, and her teacher adopts her. Because of Matilda's boredom in kindergarten she learns how to lift things with her eyes. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. A farm of animals throw the farmer out and decide to take it over for themselves in the search for utopia. Of course, the utopia never comes, only for those snotty pigs. "Soothslayer" by D.J. Conway. This outcast girl has to help battle the bad guys in the other land (I forgot the plot, but i remember loving the book). The Shannara series by Terry Brooks. All great. All different. Too hard to explain. "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. I think you all know the plot well enough. "The Runaway Jury" by John Grisham. A conspiracy about a tobacco company's trying to keep the work of one employee who invented a non-nicotine cigarette quiet. One of the sequestered jury members keeps getting out. Oh my gosh there is this really good short story collection that I can't remember the name too. It was really easy to read, but it was soooo enjoyable. Ack! This is going to nag me forever. "Angry Candy" by Harlan Ellison. A collection of short stories. "London Transports" by Maeve Binchey. A collection of short stories set in England. I could name a whoooooooole lot more, but I think these will do for now. - --gus Anyone notice I gravitate towards the easier to read books? Does this remind anyone else of "My baby loves a bunch of authors"? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:40:47 GMT From: LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) In a message dated 1/24/99 4:34:05 PM Central Standard Time, nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org writes: > I've been getting into Charles de Lint (the man can Write, my > friends)... just finished _The Ivory and the Horn_. I just bought "Moonheart" (or something like that) by Charles de Lint!!!! I haven't read any of his previous work, but I can't wait to start, especially now that you have reccomended him. - --gus you guys should have never gotten me in the discussion about books. I can go on and on and on. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:38:16 GMT From: LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com Subject: Re: top five books One thing i have to mention about "The Golden Compass". You will probably like it if you liked "The Princess Bride". I also can't wait to start reading "Catch 22". Oh, and one more book I forgot to mention before. "BE True To Your School" by Bob Greene. I think it is out of print, but if you can get yourself to a used book store and/or half Price Book Store, it will be worth it. I was reading this everywhere, I couldn't put it down. I even cut out some of my regularly scheduled TV/computer time to read this. I only wish it had a sequel. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 02:24:40 GMT From: bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) Subject: Re: top five books Gus mentioned ... <> I loved that book!!! Thanks for jogging my memory on that ... on a somewhat similar note, I'd love to add to the list "Whatever Happened to the Class of '65" which takes place around the same time (I believe "Be True to Your School" was Ohio in 1964 if I remember correctly) ... this was written by David Wallechinsky (son of Irving Wallace, none of whose books appear on my list) and Michael Medved who has since become a somewhat reactionary critic. Anyway, they went to Beverly Hills High, I believe, and 20 years later tracked down a large group of classmates and write about what they were and what they became. Fascinating. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:18:21 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: top five books geez. this is tough. "the complete collected poetry of maya angelou;" "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy," by douglas adams; "a wrinkle in time," by madeleine l'engle; "the stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales," by jon scieszka and lane smith; "if on a winter's night a traveler," by italo calvino. yeah. ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:22:25 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Shakespeare speaking of incredibly unwieldy books--am i the only english major/lit-nut alive who can't make it through "a tale of two cities"? i've read most of william faulkner's stuff and a few james joyce works, and i _can't_ get through this one. yuck. ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Molly Doyle wrote in message <36AAC950.95A@geocities.com>... >schr9271@fredonia.edu wrote: > >> >> fru-content...um....speaking of reading I just recently bought One Hundred >> Years of Solitude by Gabreal Garcia Marquez. anyone read this...thoughts? > >I am ashamed to admit that I couldn't get through it. I consider myself >a voracious and literary reader (I read Les Miserables *unabridged* in >twelve hours DAMMIT! well ok I skipped a few bits, like the 50 pages >where Hugo talks about why Napoleon would've won at Waterloo if it >hadn't rained the night before, but STILL!!!), but I just got too bogged >down in trying to figure out what the hell was going on. I waded >through about half of it before I sighed and gave up. The embarrassing >part is that my best friend writes novels of magical realism, and I love >her writing...so here I'm thinking I'm so cool, I can read GGM, >but...guess not. Maybe I'll try _Love In The Time of Cholera_ instead. > >-- >Molly Doyle >http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/6759 >"You know you've been raised Catholic when your automatic >response to "May the Force be with you," is >"And also with you, my son." --a friend ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:32:42 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: please wish me luck the key to the SAT is _calm_. don't freak. skip the ones you can't get and come back to them--but CIRCLE THEM ON THE ANSWER KEY. otherwise you'll get yourself into a royal mess :). ~~kate, queen of standardized testing :) - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com wrote in message ... >i have to take the SATs tomorrow and I am starting to get quite nervous. Any >tips? Oh, well, it's not like I wll get a 100 or something. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:36:12 -0700 From: tsalyers@dimensional.com (Tom Salyers) Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) In article <36ab99cc.3583901@news.ucdavis.edu>, nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Wonder Nerd) says... > I also just finished of a pair of well-regarded hard SF novels, > William Gibson's _Neuromancer_ and Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_. > (I'm in an artificial intelligence class this quarter...) Both were > good, though of the two I preferred Snow Crash. Make it your top priority to find and read _Head Crash_ by Bruce Bethke. It's in the same genre, but hellaciously funny. In a more serious vein is _A Fire Upon the Deep_ by Vernor Vinge. The man is a god of the genre. (And he's coming out with a new book next month--I'm so excited I almost had an aneurysm. =) ) - -- Tom Salyers "Now is the Windows of our disk contents IRCnick: Aqualung Made glorious SimEarth by this Sun of Zork." Denver, CO --from _Richard v3.0_ http://www.dimensional.com/~tsalyers/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:25:35 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Shakespeare (was Jewel Kilcher etc) i didn't suggest that the film was _bad_ (i rather appreciated the director's take, actually)--i was just commenting on the preteen reaction :). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com wrote in message <8cd13de.36a91807@aol.com>... >In a message dated 1/20/99 4:34:28 PM Central Standard Time, kleahy@loyola.edu >writes: > ><< i was actually thinking more along the lines of all the little girls who > were visibly upset and even angered that 'Nardo died. come on--they say it > in the prologue for crying out loud!!! > ~~kate >> >Ok, I do admit, the new Romeo and Juliet movie was bad, but c'mon I can think >of worse movies than that. May i suggest Grease2 and Starship Troopers? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:34:11 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: please wish me luck and just remember--you now know a girl who actually put her name on the test wrong :) ~~kate, who, in a panic over her PSATs, put her name in the boxes backward and to this day gets mail from NYU for Leahy Katherine :). - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com wrote in message <9c78bf83.36a945f8@aol.com>... >In a message dated 1/22/99 9:03:36 PM Central Standard Time, bbwminors@aol.com >writes: > ><< I knew a girl who got the every end > of the test and realized the questions and answers were one off and spent the > whole time erasing the whole page). >> >Oh yes! That's the encouragement I need! The possibility of goofing that up. >*talks to self like a psychiatrist* It's ok. Everything is going to be >aaaaaaall right. Just take a few deep breaths. Just keep repeating to >yourself that you WILL put your name on the test correctly. > >--gus >the one who probably can't the same numbers, let alone thinking of the right >answer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 03:16:01 GMT From: LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com Subject: Re: please wish me luck In a message dated 1/24/99 9:03:38 PM Central Standard Time, kleahy@loyola.edu writes: > the key to the SAT is _calm_. don't freak. Actualy it turned out i wasnt supposed to take them Sauturday, but in February, so I can wait. But thanks for the tips. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:59:46 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Favorite books (still is a lot of stuff) bokonon lives! i _adore_ vonnegut. just completed "breakfast of champions." yum. ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Katrin Luessenheide Salyers wrote in message ... >In article <19990124.111918.-3750103.0.petit_chou@juno.com>, >petit_chou@juno.com says... > >All right, I can *never* think of "my favorite anything" when asked >directly, so I hope it's all right if I just comment on some of the books >mentioned by other people... > >> *Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [Bokonon rules] >> *Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [short stories from my >> favourite author? Is there anything better?] >> *Any Other Kurt Vonnegut Novel [because he is Satire Incarnate.] > >Yessssss, another Bokononist in our midst! I'm a huge fan of Vonnegut's >work, though I've met the man in person and was quite disappointed by his >behavior toward us fans that particular day. Anyone who hasn't read >Vonnegut yet, rush right out and find some! Warning: These books will put >you in a very odd state of mind. Not that that's a bad thing. > >> *Griffin & Sabine Trilogy - Nick Bantock [amazing art, engrossing story. >> A man receives mysterious letters from a woman he's never met. So begins >> this extraordinary correspondence.] > >OOoooooooo yeah! This reminds me I MUST get my G&S trilogy back from the >friend who borrowed it over a year ago. Bantock's latest, _The Forgetting >Room_, is done in the same style and is just as outstanding. > >Zainab also mentioned _The Silver Metal Lover_ by Tanith Lee - That one's >somewhere on my list too 'cause it's illustrated by one of my heroes, >Trina Robbins (I should break down and buy a copy of that book). > >And then Vika invoked the name of Umberto Eco, of whom I haven't read >much, but _Foucault's Pendulum_ is definitely worth the effort it takes >to get through it. > >And now I'm thinking of some of my own favorites, of course... > >For children's books (some of which I re-read every couple of years even >now), no one can touch Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The Green-Sky Trilogy >(_Below the Root_, _And All Between_ and _Until the Celebration_) has >been my all-time fave since I was 11. They're now out of print, and I've >been trying to find another copy to give my nephew. If anyone finds them, >let me know! > >_archy & mehitabel_ by Don Marquis - 1920s-era social commentary that >stands the test of time, written in the character of a cockroach who >types by jumping on the keys of a newspaper columnist's typewriter. >Illustrated by the great George Herriman, the only person whose art I >have so far seen fit to have permanently etched on my body ;) > >Anything by Jonathan Carroll. He defies description, but I'll >try...Ordinary people with ordinary lives, with a big ol' element of the >weird and supernatural plunked down in the middle of things. Many of his >characters overlap (main character in one book is a friend-of-a-friend of >the main character in another, etc.). He's an American living in Europe, >and so are a lot of his most interesing characters. Run right out and >find some of his stuff. You will not be disappointed. > >Right now I'm getting into _Dictionary of the Khazars_ by Milorad Pavic, >which is published in a "male" and a "female" version, each with only one >paragraph different (great marketing gimmick, eh? Yeah, I bought both). >It's translated from the Serbo-Croatian and is sort of an "ancient >mystery" involving several religious sects, along the lines of Eco. Very >different. So far it appears I'll need to read it twice, anyway, to get >the full gist of the thing. > >Congratulations if you made it to the end of this post, and thanks to all >the rest of you suggesting some interesting reading! >k@ ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #76 *******************************************