Amazon Raid

[stoutfellow]

For some reason, the dogs didn't notify me of today's visit from the Book Fairy. Two packages arrived on my doorstep, with neither bark nor growl as herald.

Contents: Matt Ruff's Sewer, Gas and Electric, about which I have heard many fine things; Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson (which has met with mixed reviews, but I've enjoyed the Stephenson I've read - Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash); the much-lauded The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde; Joseph Nye's The Paradox of American Power, recommended to me a month and a half ago by oilhistorian; Race of Scorpions, volume 3 of Dorothy Dunnett's "House of Niccolo" series; The Celtic Languages, a set of essays on you-guess-what; two CDs by Mike + the Mechanics (I wanted "Silent Running" and "The Living Years", and they're on different albums. Yes, I know that "The Living Years" is sentimental and manipulative, but it hits one of my buttons squarely, and I wanted it.); and the season-one DVDs of "The Gilmore Girls". (I don't know if I'll buy any of the later seasons, but there were some truly outstanding episodes in that first year. I especially like "The Deer Hunters", "Cinnamon's Wake", the two parter "Rory's Dance"/"Forgiveness and Stuff", "Concert Interruptus", and "Emily in Wonderland".)

Too bad I've got so much else I have to do... Naah.

Comments

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

The Eyre Affair is one of the funniest books I've ever read. If you're undecided as to what to read first, I'd like to put my recommendation behind it.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan. I'm between fiction at the moment anyway.