I'm not supposed to talk about books until Sunday

[akujunkan]

But I just finish reading The Historian, and I am here to tell all of you to read it. NOW. It's wonderful, and it feels like even more of a find because I would never have bothered picking it up if I hadn't asked a friend about it during an interminably long wait in Nha Trang station in Vietnam.

Apparently, it's been called a Da Vinci Code knockoff, which strikes me as ironic because The Historian has tremendous merit whereas the former book should only be used as a primer on how to commit the literary equivalent of domestic violence upon the English language in particular and good storytelling in general.

Anyway. Historian is a fabulous, fabulous book, and I am gushing about it now so that I can stop jumping up and down and go to sleep, and so that I can get the squee out of my head and write something intelligent about it on Sunday.

That will be all.

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[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

*looks at pile of books waiting to be read*
*looks at lack of proper reading time between now and eternity*
*cries*

I really need to write a list of books you've recommended and put in in my phone. That way when I'm at the bookstore or library I won't be wracking my brain trying to remember them.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Well, I know you haven't read Ciaran Carson's Shamrock Tea yet, and you really should. It's unlike anything else out there.

Although, I am loathe to rec it to you, because it's the best of his works. The others are excellent of course, but you will have abnormally high expectations if you read this one first.

Off the top of my head I'd also rec:
The Thief and its sequel The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
which are both YA and can be read in an afternoon.

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have kept an eye out for The Thief, but no luck as of yet.


and now I am done. time to get back to bed. being sick sucks ;(

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Agreeable opinion on the Da Vinci Code.

I've been curious about The Historian and heard both good & bad things about it. I'll have to browse through it in the bookstore. My pile of books on my nightstand is getting a little low; time to stock-up.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

It's by no means a perfect book, but here's the thing: it's so good that I didn't mind the less-than-perfect parts, even though I was conscious of them while I was reading--and that's the sort of thing that usually drives me batty. So I definitely recommend checking it out, and I'd be interested in knowing what you think about it.