Holden Caulfield Is A Phoney, and Other Stories

[rhivolution]

A couple of random points:

- I am nearly done with Professor Layton and the Lost Future. The plot of this one is a massively convoluted WTF on the level of last week's Community, but it's fun. One really annoying point is that I am so tired of the whole 'well, let's leave Flora behind for her safety' thing, and making her deliberately obtuse, and...at least she gets to do stuff in this one?

- That reminds me that I totally need to pick a PB for Bonnie Macfarlane before 1 December. White US American, blonde, late-20s, NOT girly...any suggestions?

- onceupon is looking for book recs both here and at LJ. I am no help because I'm really in the same boat she is (I read non-fiction and SFF almost exclusively of late), so read her post and help me too.

- I didn't have the heart to start a flame war while she can't moderate go tell the dude in her LJ post that I don't think his list of authors is appropriate in light of what M says in her post about what she likes to read, except for a bit of William Gibson, so I'm saying it here. They're all postmodernist white dudes, and while some postmodernist white dude writing is okay, it would not be my exclusive go-to list of reading material. Also, I had a hell of a time schlepping through Iain M Banks (I will try again soon, seeing as most UK SF sections are at least one-third Culture novels), and Jonathan Lethem's SFy books are just way too esoteric. It's like he can't decide whether or not to be Bradbury or Vonnegut but with that style that's just so very...90s hipster.

You know what I mean. I may have read too many of those sort of books in high school. They don't have ENDINGS. I'm looking at you, Chip Kidd.

Comments

[geekgirl]

I actually was able to get through Transitions (it's sold as scifi over here). Read a bet of Excession and decided to go back to Consider Phelbas.

Have you read Halting State by Charles Stross yet? Or any of Jasper Fforde?

[rhivolution]

I really liked Halting State better than any of the other Stross I've read, yes. And I've read most of Fforde, because Thursday Next pwns EVERYTHING.

[brainwane]

Thanks for the heads-up on the request for reading recommendations. I posted a few times.

[rhivolution]

And thank you for the recs, too. [scribbles them down]