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minkhollowAssuming LJ cooperates, that is. Rereading compulsively... six books but we'll count it as three, okay?
Enchanted Forest Chronicles (particularly Calling on Dragons), by Patricia C. Wrede
I was in fifth grade, it was nearly the end of the school year, and Dad came home from the library and handed me a book, saying he thought I'd be interested. The title was Dealing With Dragons, and knowing him and dragons it was rather obvious why he picked it up in the first. But the cover looked interesting, so I read it.
And the next time I went to the library I got the other three; that's the ONLY time I've seen the full set there. My four-in-one omnibus has a split-binding issue, exactly between the second and third books.
It's fantasy and it's positively wonderful. Except for the wizards, of course, but they melt. (Problem is they keep coming back, the slimy bastards. XD) Occasionally it's the animals who make the plot - Morwen's cats, Killer (poor thing), Suz... just wonderful, yo.
Have passed this series on to two friends, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brazenbells has read them as well.
Good Omens (oh, I think most of us know who wrote it. ^_^)
Around January of last year I stumbled across Erin the Charisntma chick - well before she was said Charisntma chick, mind. She was in Morgan's blog links and she had a Daria layout up for her blog. I think the first I heard about GO was when she changed the layout to Crowley. (Do you know I didn't see your point about leaving sunglasses off that drawing? XD)
Snap-cut to June: While in Austin on vacation, we went to a bookstore. A big bookstore. I noticed they had GO, thought "hey, isn't this that book Erin's always going on about?", pulled a copy off the shelf, and had parents buy it because the *back cover* had me laughing.
That's how good this book is. It's religious satire, you can't pick just one best quote (as evidenced on Quoteage!), the dolphin conversation is the single funniest thing ever written, and the characters generally don't do what you'd think. (Example: I can't stand this characterization of the Metatron. Too much royal-we and bureaucracy and whathaveyou.tammaiya's metatron, however, rocks. He doesn't do what you'd expect either, just in the other direction.)
I've passed this book on to... five people (counting Morgan) so far, it is a book of which lots of LJ people are aware, and we all know the thing about the Horsepersons fic.
Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
This story actually starts with Hogfather, as that's what started off the brief thriving Pterry trade last month. A friend at school noticed I had it and offered to let me borrow Thief of Time in exchange, once I was through with Hogfather. Both of those were good, you know - kept me in Discworld, after all (something the Rincewind stuff I'd read previously wasn't quite doing).
The next trade was GO for Soul Music, and the rest is history. I read the book through and then halfway again before I gave it back (time was of the essence, donchaknow), and then got a copy from the library a few days ago.
It's the music puns - they just keep coming. And Death's just so flustered that, weird as it sounds, you almost want to give him a hug. Susan's inital reaction to the Death of Rats ("You're not real, you know, you're just a piece of cheese.") is a line for the ages. And, and, just.
Haven't really had a chance to pass this along yet, but I've recommended it to a couple people.
One of my friends prolly thinks I'm seriously messed up now. She keeps reading the summaries on these Discworld books and... well, watching her face is priceless. (But if I'm seriously messed up I've got good company - right?)
Also - there's certainly no other icon for this sort of post. ^_^
Enchanted Forest Chronicles (particularly Calling on Dragons), by Patricia C. Wrede
I was in fifth grade, it was nearly the end of the school year, and Dad came home from the library and handed me a book, saying he thought I'd be interested. The title was Dealing With Dragons, and knowing him and dragons it was rather obvious why he picked it up in the first. But the cover looked interesting, so I read it.
And the next time I went to the library I got the other three; that's the ONLY time I've seen the full set there. My four-in-one omnibus has a split-binding issue, exactly between the second and third books.
It's fantasy and it's positively wonderful. Except for the wizards, of course, but they melt. (Problem is they keep coming back, the slimy bastards. XD) Occasionally it's the animals who make the plot - Morwen's cats, Killer (poor thing), Suz... just wonderful, yo.
Have passed this series on to two friends, and
brazenbells has read them as well.Good Omens (oh, I think most of us know who wrote it. ^_^)
Around January of last year I stumbled across Erin the Charisntma chick - well before she was said Charisntma chick, mind. She was in Morgan's blog links and she had a Daria layout up for her blog. I think the first I heard about GO was when she changed the layout to Crowley. (Do you know I didn't see your point about leaving sunglasses off that drawing? XD)
Snap-cut to June: While in Austin on vacation, we went to a bookstore. A big bookstore. I noticed they had GO, thought "hey, isn't this that book Erin's always going on about?", pulled a copy off the shelf, and had parents buy it because the *back cover* had me laughing.
That's how good this book is. It's religious satire, you can't pick just one best quote (as evidenced on Quoteage!), the dolphin conversation is the single funniest thing ever written, and the characters generally don't do what you'd think. (Example: I can't stand this characterization of the Metatron. Too much royal-we and bureaucracy and whathaveyou.
tammaiya's metatron, however, rocks. He doesn't do what you'd expect either, just in the other direction.)I've passed this book on to... five people (counting Morgan) so far, it is a book of which lots of LJ people are aware, and we all know the thing about the Horsepersons fic.
Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett
This story actually starts with Hogfather, as that's what started off the brief thriving Pterry trade last month. A friend at school noticed I had it and offered to let me borrow Thief of Time in exchange, once I was through with Hogfather. Both of those were good, you know - kept me in Discworld, after all (something the Rincewind stuff I'd read previously wasn't quite doing).
The next trade was GO for Soul Music, and the rest is history. I read the book through and then halfway again before I gave it back (time was of the essence, donchaknow), and then got a copy from the library a few days ago.
It's the music puns - they just keep coming. And Death's just so flustered that, weird as it sounds, you almost want to give him a hug. Susan's inital reaction to the Death of Rats ("You're not real, you know, you're just a piece of cheese.") is a line for the ages. And, and, just.
Haven't really had a chance to pass this along yet, but I've recommended it to a couple people.
One of my friends prolly thinks I'm seriously messed up now. She keeps reading the summaries on these Discworld books and... well, watching her face is priceless. (But if I'm seriously messed up I've got good company - right?)
Also - there's certainly no other icon for this sort of post. ^_^