I'd love to hear what you think of season 3, I have the most complex feelings about it. I'm glad you like it. Did you know that the actors who play Geoff and Ellen are married in RL?
New recommendations... well I've been watching _The Wire_ recently which is the best cop drama I've ever seen, easily some of the best TV. This caused me to go read Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which was fantastic nonfiction. I'm not normally a True Crime reader, but this is probably my favorite non-fiction book now.
Have I recommended anything by Sean Stewart to you yet? Emily still has my extra copies of some of the books, which are, sadly, hard to find these days. Still if you can find them, I predict that you'd love _Mockingbird_ and _Galveston_ and probably _Night Watch_. The first is sort of a magical realist fantasy set in Houston, the second two are more urban fantasy set after a magical disaster has radically changed the world. All his books are stand alones, though Galveston, Night Watch and _Resurrection Man_ all take place in the same universe though years and miles apart. Resurrection Man is also great urban fantasy. _Clouds End_ is a very interesting straight up fantasy novel which is sort of like what would happen if Tolkien wrote a book with characters who acted like real people (esp. the female characters).
I think you'd like Sean's stuff because not only does he write extremely well but he writes great characters and character relationships and deals with family and growing up and hard choices.
(I also mention him because I've been so missing his writing that I actually went out and bought the Star Wars novel he wrote - man's gotta eat, I suppose - it actually wasn't bad)
Also, speaking of hard to find books, I've started rereading _I, the Divine_ which is written entirely in first chapters and great. The author's (Rabin Allamedine) new novel, _The Hakawati_ is also pretty good.
Hmm... other than that I'm a little short, I also read a bunch of Dorothy Sayers recently, that was fun. Have you read anything great?
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Date: 2008-07-25 02:03 am (UTC)New recommendations... well I've been watching _The Wire_ recently which is the best cop drama I've ever seen, easily some of the best TV. This caused me to go read Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which was fantastic nonfiction. I'm not normally a True Crime reader, but this is probably my favorite non-fiction book now.
Have I recommended anything by Sean Stewart to you yet? Emily still has my extra copies of some of the books, which are, sadly, hard to find these days. Still if you can find them, I predict that you'd love _Mockingbird_ and _Galveston_ and probably _Night Watch_. The first is sort of a magical realist fantasy set in Houston, the second two are more urban fantasy set after a magical disaster has radically changed the world. All his books are stand alones, though Galveston, Night Watch and _Resurrection Man_ all take place in the same universe though years and miles apart. Resurrection Man is also great urban fantasy. _Clouds End_ is a very interesting straight up fantasy novel which is sort of like what would happen if Tolkien wrote a book with characters who acted like real people (esp. the female characters).
I think you'd like Sean's stuff because not only does he write extremely well but he writes great characters and character relationships and deals with family and growing up and hard choices.
(I also mention him because I've been so missing his writing that I actually went out and bought the Star Wars novel he wrote - man's gotta eat, I suppose - it actually wasn't bad)
Also, speaking of hard to find books, I've started rereading _I, the Divine_ which is written entirely in first chapters and great. The author's (Rabin Allamedine) new novel, _The Hakawati_ is also pretty good.
Hmm... other than that I'm a little short, I also read a bunch of Dorothy Sayers recently, that was fun. Have you read anything great?