Another book meme - from rysmiel

[darcydodo]

• 3 books you use most often for reference
  
• 3 books you read on "high rotation"
  
• 3 books you read for comfort
  
• 3 books you really ought to read
  
• 3 books you will never read
  

• 3 books you use most often for reference
  
  Liddell and Scott's Greek - English Lexicon
  
  The Iliad
  
  The Complete Works of Shakespeare
  

  3 books you read on "high rotation"
  

  Frank Herbert, Dune
  

  Patricia McKillip, The Changeling Sea
  

  maybe some Melanie Rawn? Lost on this one. Doesn't apply so much any more, since my "read books" are at home, and my "unread books" are here.
  

  3 books you read for comfort
  

  Patricia McKillip, The Changeling Sea
  

  Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
  

  Peggy Parish, Key to the Treasure
  

  3 books you really ought to read
  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  

  Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
  

  George Orwell, Animal Farm
  

  3 books you will never read
  

  Any David Eddings
  

  Any L. Ron Hubbard
  

  and... and... I will never again read any L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
  

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Tamora Pierce! Someone else who reads Tamora Pierce! *loves you*

[darcydodo]

*loves you back* There are other people around who do too, I'm finding.

I've only read Song of the Lioness quartet. There's a drabble community for her books, you know. :)

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Ooo, there is? *hunts for it* I like her Earth Mage books, and the knew ones - about another chick from Mindelean? I like those a lot.

[darcydodo]

The drabble community, if you didn't find it, is tortall100.

[flaming-muse.livejournal.com]

Yay for Tamora Pierce! :)

(And yay for Liddell and Scott!)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Whee! Et tu, LadyCat? & ;-)

We should found a community for Tamora Pierce lovers.

She's pretty popular around here; I read the Lioness quartet and the Daine one as well but stopped then; have to pick it up some day...

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

The next quartet isn't bad. The last book is. . . well, it leaves something to be desired plot-wise, but I really liked the books nonetheless. And we should. I love Tamora Pierce :)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Heh. Plot bit too thin? Will read it and find out for myself ASAP.

Found a community called-- surprise, surprise!-- tortall that actually seems to be rather active.

::moseys over to have a look::

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Not too thin so much as. . . the other two series had these huge sweeping finishes. And this one didn't. It ended, yeah, and it wasn't plot less just. . . not quite as satisfying. But that's also the nature of the character, so I'm not knocking it.

And ooo! *friends*

[wychwood]

I love Alanna!!!

The Song of the Lioness quartet is *so* much better than the rest of her stuff, though. Have you all read the "Winding Circle" quartets? They're rather... blah in comparison.

What are "high rotation" books? Ones that spin nicely? :D

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Hee! "High rotation" - things we re-read very often, at least that's my assumption. I like yours better ;)

And I really like the Daine books, they were good. Haven't read anything non-Tortall.

[darcydodo]

Yeah, I did read the first of the Daine books and was like, "Uh?"

What are "high rotation" books? Ones that spin nicely? :D

That's kind of what I thought, too. I had to go look at what rysmiel had put to get some idea of what it might have meant. ;)

[sschmitt.livejournal.com]

I read Snow Crash--great book! Read it ASAP.

[darcydodo]

I know, I know, everyone keeps saying that. :) Actually, of the three books that I need to read, the only one I haven't got is Animal Farm. Well, I don't actually own Snow Crash, it belongs to wolfemancs, but it's sitting on my shelf as incentive. I was planning to read it next, but then I realized I'd bought a Patricia McKillip book over the summer and still not read it, and in my books, that's unforgiveable....