i. hate. books.

[sarah_orange]

Gah I have a lot of books. why do I have so many bloody books?
I have the Young Ones Book and Neil's Book of the Dead.
You wouldn't believe how many Garfield books I have.
And at least 3 times as many Calvin and Hobbes books...

huge piles of piers anthony nonsense from when I was younger...

and the cat books... oh the cat books... so many books of cats... and nudes... not nude cats... just big arty farty taschen style books of erotic photography...

Also I found a Molly Parkin book - I feel dirty...

Comments

[daevid.livejournal.com]

I liked the Shannara series... up to a point mind... much like most fantasy genre it can get just a little ott and formulaic...

Tolkien i couldn't get rid of and i love my Gaiman, Constantine and Clarke so will not be seeing them out...

Can't believe i got rid of my Moorcock though!!!
But i did get rid of my entire collection of Anne McCaffery....

OMG, just remembered that i have Tanith Lee stuff too!!!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

haha I offloaded some tanith lee onto Al the other night

hey - due to my nan noticing me read one once and her terrible jumble sale habit I used to have a really huge quantity of Gor books by John Norman. I think they're still in a box of shame from last time I moved...

[daevid.livejournal.com]

Was it Dark Dance etc? (i only have two Tanith Lee books)...

I think i only had one Gor book... and only opened it once ;)

Mmm... wonder if you can still get Corum and Elric Anthologies...

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

the stormwitch is one of them - can't remember the other.

[daevid.livejournal.com]

There was an odd set of books i loved...

Mercedes Lackey... The Last Herald Mage...

[vinyl-storm.livejournal.com]

You got rid of your entire Anne McCaffery collection....noooooo! I've been looking to re-read the Pern stuff and can't seem to find all the books. Daevid if only I'd known you sooner I could have taken the embarrassing Dragon lore stuff off your hands! *ashamedly loves cheesy dragon lore*

As for the Shannara series, I liked it and again, up to a point. Gets tired eventually!

[daevid.livejournal.com]

The earlier stuff i really do miss as it was quite well written!

And the first two of the Shannara series also had a good edge to them, just the right side of fear that makes good fantasy work :)

[vinyl-storm.livejournal.com]

Hear hear!

Might have a snoop on ebay to see if I can find any of the early Pern series ones. I think I'm missing Dragon Song or Dragon Singer? Weren't those early ones about the girl who ran away from her hold and played music or something for the dragons?

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

I was too incensed by them being almost exactly the same as lord of the rings to remember anything else...

[daevid.livejournal.com]

There were differences... but i do understand what you mean...

What i liked were the rediscoveries here and there that spoke of a more civilised time... much like Pern and the Dragons.

So why do you read Harry Potter ;)

I take it you never read Books of Magic :)

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

harry potter is enjoyable pap - utterly easy reading - I like anything that speaks of hidden worlds within the one we know - possibly why I liked magic kingdom.

plus I actually enjoyed the fact she was teaching kids about propoganda and politics in the later books. a nice bit of social concience.

[daevid.livejournal.com]

But the genre of sci fi and fantasy has been all about politics and propaganda well before JK ;p

She did though do us all a favour and opened it up to a young audience...

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

exactly!