Things I am planning to read
May. 31st, 2013 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnIn case anyone else is interested. (This isn’t an exhaustive list, but these are the things I think would be most fun to read in the company of others.)
In the next week: John M. Ford’s Klingon novel, The Final Reflection (reread), in the hopessineala will also reread. If anyone else does read this, and even if you don’t, I shall ask all the dumb questions I still don’t understand about this book. (I seem to remember some confusion about Maxwell Grandisson III and Van Diemen and who was responsible for whose fate. We shall see!)
In the next month or so: Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle (reread), completely out of order, and probably not including Homecoming, which I find so painful I’ve never actually gotten all the way through it. I’ve got a post on Come a Stranger queued, and probably will read The Runner, Sons from Afar, and Seventeen Against the Dealer in that order. Then probably I’ll give Homecoming a stab, and then Dicey’s Song and A Solitary Blue. (I, um, don't recommend this order if you're reading it for the first time. Start with Dicey's Song or Solitary Blue and work more-or-less in order of publication.)
In the next three months: Moby-Dick. I say three months because what with various Summer Plans I suspect it will take me that long to get through it, although of course I hope it doesn’t take that long!
In the fall: Cordwainer Smith’s short stories withduckwhatduck! And possibly some Baudelaire. I've never read any Baudelaire, but apparently "Drunkboat" would make a lot more sense if I had.
(Fall reading will, of course, be ramping up to Yuletide, so if there's anything else I should read for Yuletide then feel free to lecture me about it ;) I think maybe I should read Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London novels? What else?)
In the next week: John M. Ford’s Klingon novel, The Final Reflection (reread), in the hopes
sineala will also reread. If anyone else does read this, and even if you don’t, I shall ask all the dumb questions I still don’t understand about this book. (I seem to remember some confusion about Maxwell Grandisson III and Van Diemen and who was responsible for whose fate. We shall see!)In the next month or so: Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle (reread), completely out of order, and probably not including Homecoming, which I find so painful I’ve never actually gotten all the way through it. I’ve got a post on Come a Stranger queued, and probably will read The Runner, Sons from Afar, and Seventeen Against the Dealer in that order. Then probably I’ll give Homecoming a stab, and then Dicey’s Song and A Solitary Blue. (I, um, don't recommend this order if you're reading it for the first time. Start with Dicey's Song or Solitary Blue and work more-or-less in order of publication.)
In the next three months: Moby-Dick. I say three months because what with various Summer Plans I suspect it will take me that long to get through it, although of course I hope it doesn’t take that long!
In the fall: Cordwainer Smith’s short stories with
duckwhatduck! And possibly some Baudelaire. I've never read any Baudelaire, but apparently "Drunkboat" would make a lot more sense if I had.(Fall reading will, of course, be ramping up to Yuletide, so if there's anything else I should read for Yuletide then feel free to lecture me about it ;) I think maybe I should read Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London novels? What else?)
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Date: 2013-05-31 08:23 pm (UTC)And I'm totally onboard for a Cordwainer Smith re-read. The Instrumentality of Mankind is fantastic.
At the moment, I'm two thirds of the way through Zadie Smith's new novel NW, which is really well written but not quite as enjoyable as her other three novels. Have you read Zadie Smith? Zadie Smith's books are things I would request for Yuletide if I weren't totally terrified of what I might get. So I request The Autograph Man fic for Kaleidoscope instead.
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Date: 2013-05-31 09:16 pm (UTC)(Um. You didn't happen to come up with the title "Do you hear the underpeople sing?" elsewhere, did you? If so, I know someone who wants to be friends with you! Or possibly already is.)
I have never read Zadie Smith! Shall put on the list.
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Date: 2013-05-31 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-06-02 01:03 am (UTC)But look, the thing with Known Space is that it's not like the kzin are a convincing alien species. They're actually just about the least interesting part of Known Space. It's just that Known Space is entertaining and interesting in spite of the kzin, thus earning a carveout in my theory.
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Date: 2013-06-02 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-06-02 01:05 am (UTC)It is a tour-de-force of terrible physics.
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Date: 2013-06-03 03:04 am (UTC)But only almost! The sensible part of my brain knows it would be a Bad Idea.