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coffee_and_ink said she likes to see other people's lists, so here they are. A lot of these are from second-hand stores, so some of the reasoning has more to do with "Hey, it's fifteen cents!" rather than "Hey, it's a quality work of literature!"
Descendants of Darkness 4
Saiyuki 7
Sei Shonangon, The Pillow Book- I didn't notice that was abridged until after I bought it, and I'm not sure if I'm going to return it or not. Does anyone have any opinion on which version is better? This one was by Ivan Morris.
The Essential Rumi
Elizabeth E. Wein, The Winter Prince
John Dufresne, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction
Mindy L. Klasky, The Glasswright's Apprentice- I'm pretty sure this is just cheap, mass-produced fantasy. But instead of being set in generic medieval Europe, it's in generic medieval India, which is a cool idea. Doesn't explain why the girl on the cover is a blue-eyed blonde, but maybe the inside'll be better.
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Susan Vreeland, The Passion of Artemisia
Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
William Faulkner, Sanctuary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo
China Mieville, The Scar
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear- I didn't own a copy of these already, but the best part is the back cover, which I just noticed:
HAMLET...
a young prince doomed by his father's
murder to plot a bloody revenge
MACBETH...
an ambitious nobleman driven by an evil
wife to murder his king
KING LEAR...
a tormented old man pushed into the abyss
of insanity by his daughters
Complete in one volume- three famous
tragedies by the world's greatest
dramatist. In these plays, Shakespeare
portrays madness and murder... reveals
the dark violent side of man's mind.
All it needs is "Together, they fight crime!"
Mark Murlansky, Salt: A World History
coffee_and_ink said she likes to see other people's lists, so here they are. A lot of these are from second-hand stores, so some of the reasoning has more to do with "Hey, it's fifteen cents!" rather than "Hey, it's a quality work of literature!"Descendants of Darkness 4
Saiyuki 7
Sei Shonangon, The Pillow Book- I didn't notice that was abridged until after I bought it, and I'm not sure if I'm going to return it or not. Does anyone have any opinion on which version is better? This one was by Ivan Morris.
The Essential Rumi
Elizabeth E. Wein, The Winter Prince
John Dufresne, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction
Mindy L. Klasky, The Glasswright's Apprentice- I'm pretty sure this is just cheap, mass-produced fantasy. But instead of being set in generic medieval Europe, it's in generic medieval India, which is a cool idea. Doesn't explain why the girl on the cover is a blue-eyed blonde, but maybe the inside'll be better.
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Susan Vreeland, The Passion of Artemisia
Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks
Patrick Suskind, Perfume
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
William Faulkner, Sanctuary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo
China Mieville, The Scar
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear- I didn't own a copy of these already, but the best part is the back cover, which I just noticed:
a young prince doomed by his father's
murder to plot a bloody revenge
MACBETH...
an ambitious nobleman driven by an evil
wife to murder his king
KING LEAR...
a tormented old man pushed into the abyss
of insanity by his daughters
Complete in one volume- three famous
tragedies by the world's greatest
dramatist. In these plays, Shakespeare
portrays madness and murder... reveals
the dark violent side of man's mind.
All it needs is "Together, they fight crime!"
Mark Murlansky, Salt: A World History
