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ten books I like
While I wait for my articles on the evolution of language and arithmetical representation in the brain to print, have a meme. It's like that guess-the-lyrics one, only even more obscure! These might not be my exact ten favourite books, though I think most of them come pretty close; I just sort of wandered past my shelf and pulled off ten books that I love to pieces.
1. One warm April evening in 1984, in a pleasant suburb of Cairo called Zamalek, three exquisite young men with knives tried to kill me.
2. He leaned forward, his breath the smell of whiskey drunk straight from the bottle.
3. "I once played Romeo and Juliet as a one-man show," I said.
4. Shadow had done three years in prison.
5. In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
6. From a distance only the light is visible, a speeding gleaming horizontal angel, trumpet out on a hard bend.
7. They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants.
8. She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.
9. It is freezing, an extraordinary -18°C, and it's snowing, and in the language which is no longer mine, the snow is qanik - big, almost weightless crystals falling in stacks and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost.
10. Some years ago a young man and a boy of fifteen were talking along the banks of a river, looking for a good place to fish.
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1. One warm April evening in 1984, in a pleasant suburb of Cairo called Zamalek, three exquisite young men with knives tried to kill me.
2. He leaned forward, his breath the smell of whiskey drunk straight from the bottle.
3. "I once played Romeo and Juliet as a one-man show," I said.
4. Shadow had done three years in prison.
5. In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
6. From a distance only the light is visible, a speeding gleaming horizontal angel, trumpet out on a hard bend.
7. They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants.
8. She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.
9. It is freezing, an extraordinary -18°C, and it's snowing, and in the language which is no longer mine, the snow is qanik - big, almost weightless crystals falling in stacks and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost.
10. Some years ago a young man and a boy of fifteen were talking along the banks of a river, looking for a good place to fish.
...I feel as though I should ban
schiarire from playing. GET IN QUICK, BEFORE JI DOES.
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4. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
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I am curious about #1, though.
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Oh, hey, can I email you bank details for you & Anna to transfer some money for the Snow Patrol tickets? & how are exams going?
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Exams are a bitch. Well, they've been alright so far, but I'm screwed for Social - the concepts are abstract, no facts, so I can't concentrate on studying because it all goes in one ear (eye?) and out the other [/excuses].
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I really, really want to borrow number one. Just off that sentence. And now I think I shall do a version of my own.
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8. I think it's the beginning of "The English Patient" but it's been a long time, and that sentence isn't very telling ^__^
10. sounds like one of the Narnia books, but I'm not sure :)
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1: Robert Dessaix, A Mother's Disgrace.
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4. "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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Yay!! I love John Varley, at least what I've read. I have to say that I liked "The Golden Globe" a lot more than "Steel Beach". I haven't read anything else by him, though. What would you recommend?
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I didn't like Steel Beach much at all the first time I read it - no wacky Shakespearean hijinks! what! - but upon rereading it grew on me. It's a lot more about the hard scifi then GG is, and it's phenomenally clever.
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7. History of the World in 10 and a half chapters you bloody wonder!.
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