More books, but no cookies

[brigdh]

I went back to the St Anges Library book sale today; I'm sure none of you are surprised.


Kim Stanley Robinson - Three Californias
China Mieville - Perdido Street Station
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
E. M. Forster - Maurice
Gene Wolfe - Epiphany of the Long Sun
Hari Kunzru - The Impressionist

For a grand total of $9.50.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I like Perdido Street Station quite a lot, with some caveats. One of the caveats is that the prologue is pretentious and eminently skippable.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'll keep that in mind!

I accidently already read The Scar, the sequel; I didn't realize it was a sequel until I was a hundred pages into it, and then I figured that I may as well go ahead and finish it. So I'm very interested in reading this one.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

It's not really a sequel; it's set in the same universe and takes place later, but it doesn't have any overlapping characters.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, I guess that's why it took me so long to realize that there seemed to be some backstory missing.

[aonekosama.livejournal.com]

My s.o. actually read them in that order, Scar first, and it didn't seem to be a problem. I myself only managed some tens of pages of Scar before dropping it for something less... I don't know what. I'm not even sure why it felt that heavy to read. ^^'

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Scar is way, way longer than it needed to be, I feel, but I liked it anyway because it had a really fascinating world, complete with one of my favorite this-could-never-happen-but-it's-awesome-anyway settings: a city made of lots of boats lashed together. Which, if it appeals to you, also features in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.