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stoutfellowThat was interesting.
I just made another foray up Amazon. One of the books on my list was Generations, by Neil Howe and William Strauss. Unfortunately, on my list I'd inadvertently transposed the last names. I ran a search on "Neil Strauss" and got, um, some unexpected hits. It seems that this Mr. Strauss is a bit of an expert on porn.... "William Howe" didn't fare much better. The hits were scattered; among others, there was a memoir by the Revolutionary War period general of that name. I finally wised up and searched on the title, thereby revealing my error.
[The order: Strauss & Howe; Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Legacy (yes, I know, I've been horribly slow); Jane Lindskold, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart (I got a free copy of Through Wolf's Eyes at the Seattle NASFIC; this is the sequel); Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman (about lexicography, actually...); Gene Wolfe, The Wizard and Return to the Whorl (finishing up a couple of series); Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand (a recommendation from the "Unshelved" comic strip); and Edward Louis, Odysseus on the Rhine.]
I just made another foray up Amazon. One of the books on my list was Generations, by Neil Howe and William Strauss. Unfortunately, on my list I'd inadvertently transposed the last names. I ran a search on "Neil Strauss" and got, um, some unexpected hits. It seems that this Mr. Strauss is a bit of an expert on porn.... "William Howe" didn't fare much better. The hits were scattered; among others, there was a memoir by the Revolutionary War period general of that name. I finally wised up and searched on the title, thereby revealing my error.
[The order: Strauss & Howe; Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Legacy (yes, I know, I've been horribly slow); Jane Lindskold, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart (I got a free copy of Through Wolf's Eyes at the Seattle NASFIC; this is the sequel); Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman (about lexicography, actually...); Gene Wolfe, The Wizard and Return to the Whorl (finishing up a couple of series); Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand (a recommendation from the "Unshelved" comic strip); and Edward Louis, Odysseus on the Rhine.]
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Date: 2007-06-27 01:23 pm (UTC)But that's the first of his I've ever read, so I probably will go out and seek some more.
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Date: 2007-06-27 01:43 pm (UTC)Wolfe's hand is a little lighter in Free Live Free, which to my mind is one of the best of his standalones; you might try that. The Book of the New Sun really is his masterpiece, but it does take a major effort. I particularly enjoy the numerous stories-within-the-story in that one. (On quite a few occasions, one of the characters reads or tells a story, and most of those are beautifully done.)