Post by MsCali on Nov 11, 2007 22:10:31 GMT -5
I don't even own a library card, so I have no idea if the library down the street is any good or not. I prefer to own my books (and I buy way too many...I've probably spent about $250 on books in the past two weeks. There are just sooooo many that look good!).
These days, I'm really more into non-fiction than anything (despite the list above). I like fiction if it's lighthearted and quick to read - otherwise, give me a good true-crime story, history, or biography (and if you like true crime, Devil in the White City is excellent. Or if you like architecture - it's the story of the planning & building of the Chicago world's fair. At the same time, a serial killer is preying on the women of Chicago. Mr. C thought the parts about the killer were interesting, while I preferred the parts about the fair. Something for everyone in that book! LOL).
Other good books I've read within the past few months that I would recommend - The Gun Seller (by Hugh Laurie...yes, a completely histerical, spy-farce by House himself); Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (interesting, but not the most coherently put together book); No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (if you can get past the fact that he has an aversion to quotation marks and the abrupt ending, it's a decent read. Personally, bad punctuation annoys me); Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss (a whole book about punctuation! Lucky me!); Don't Panic (a biography of Douglas Adams) by Neil Gaiman (wonderful book); Sex, Drugs & Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (a series of essays on pop culture...the man has a whole chapter on Saved by the Bell. It's awesome); In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; The Brief History of the Dead (I can't see the author's name, but it was a very good book - A virus, unleashed by the Coca Cola corporation, begins to wipe out the entire population of earth. But instead of going to heaven or hell, or wherever people go after they die depending on your beliefs - the book doens't really deal with that - they go to a city, where they remain until one day they just disappear. The working theory is that you stay in the city until every single person who remembers you in any way is also dead).
These days, I'm really more into non-fiction than anything (despite the list above). I like fiction if it's lighthearted and quick to read - otherwise, give me a good true-crime story, history, or biography (and if you like true crime, Devil in the White City is excellent. Or if you like architecture - it's the story of the planning & building of the Chicago world's fair. At the same time, a serial killer is preying on the women of Chicago. Mr. C thought the parts about the killer were interesting, while I preferred the parts about the fair. Something for everyone in that book! LOL).
Other good books I've read within the past few months that I would recommend - The Gun Seller (by Hugh Laurie...yes, a completely histerical, spy-farce by House himself); Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (interesting, but not the most coherently put together book); No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (if you can get past the fact that he has an aversion to quotation marks and the abrupt ending, it's a decent read. Personally, bad punctuation annoys me); Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss (a whole book about punctuation! Lucky me!); Don't Panic (a biography of Douglas Adams) by Neil Gaiman (wonderful book); Sex, Drugs & Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (a series of essays on pop culture...the man has a whole chapter on Saved by the Bell. It's awesome); In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; The Brief History of the Dead (I can't see the author's name, but it was a very good book - A virus, unleashed by the Coca Cola corporation, begins to wipe out the entire population of earth. But instead of going to heaven or hell, or wherever people go after they die depending on your beliefs - the book doens't really deal with that - they go to a city, where they remain until one day they just disappear. The working theory is that you stay in the city until every single person who remembers you in any way is also dead).
? something like that), but I can sympathize with others who may not have their rose-hued glasses on. 
