| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.225 |
Important and interesting concept here: http://tinyurl.com/65rn6k As part of this scheme someone has chosen a book dear to my heart: http://charlesatan.livejournal.com/480332.html | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
Sigh. I've been wanting to by a family friend's daughter a few books for Christmas (the Twilight books) but he keeps steering me toward buying the Prince Caspian dvd. He's an inch from insisting. Yet a few years ago I bought her the Narnias and while she seemed almost puzzld at first ('Books!?') she went on to love and re-read them. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I buy books for people who don't even read. I'm like a little prose Nazi. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Tony, give her the books. If your friend tries to insist, just tell him it's your present to the kid - not his, and anyway, you'd already ordered them. I never bother asking what people want. The few people I can afford to buy presents for, I know well enough to know what they'll like, even before they do a lot of the time. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.190.150 |
Give her a lump of coal, Tony - that'll teach her dad to criticise your present-buying decisions. ;-) | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.240.155.122 |
I can't do that, I haven't yet read four books published in 2008. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.71 |
Meh. Books'll do fine in 2009. People will have PLENTY of time to read.... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
You're a real ray of sunshine aren't you, Craig? | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.40 |
Tony, if the dad is critical of your decision, ask him how often he's ever heard the phrase, "the film was better than the book." And compare that with the phrase, "the book was better than the film." | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.104.55.243 |
My mum and grandmother are the only voracious readers in my family, so we always exchange books for Christmas. My mom reads lots of dark police procedural stuff. Everything from Cornwell, Hayder, Slaughter - that sort of thing-and they always have books out at Christmas. The first Hayder novel- Birdman- I fished out of my mom's collection and I was surprised to discover that it was a good horror novel as well. My mom was reading Michael Marshall Smith before I was and actually suggested his work to me. My dad reads old James Herbert novels and the Koran- Ha! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.241.252 |
Karim - I got Hayder's The Devil of Nan King (aka Tokyo) in my goodie bag at the Toronto Worldcon, and it was a superb book - give it a go if you've not already tried it. I'd not heard of her before but I've since read the rest of her books. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.104.55.242 |
Mick I bought a second hand copy of Tokyo- I'll put it on top of the TBR on your recommendation! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I got Pig Island from the local library in hardback for 20p. |