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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Authors: Orson Scott Card Andy Kubert

Tags: comics sci-fi

Description: Re-booted Iron Man by Orson Scott Card. If you need more than that, this comic isn't forRe-booted Iron Man by Orson Scott Card. If you need more than that, this comic isn't for you. Grade-A fantastic work....

2008-02-07

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Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Bill Walsh

Tags: reference favorites useful etc

Description: This is my very favorite grammar tome, and not just because of the clever title. It's fullThis is my very favorite grammar tome, and not just because of the clever title. It's full of real-world examples, the author is funny, and it takes real-world usage into account (the difference between being wrong but okay, and Wrong). In short, it's a grammar book that can be read by non-grammar nerds. Sweet....

2006-01-04

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Paul Auster

Tags: favorites auster

Description: I bought this on recommendation from a friend's housemate, who recommended it to me asI bought this on recommendation from a friend's housemate, who recommended it to me as a writer, when I was on the verge of moving to New York.

I'm not sure, had I found a copy in my first year of being there, that I would have appreciated the recommendation.

However, it took me three years to track down a copy (in a handy re-issue), and all three titles are amazing. Disorienting, verbally beautiful, and some of the best modern writing around. Paul Auster has few equals right now, and I'll read anything he writes....

2005-09-26

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Alan Warner

Tags: favorites life-changing top5

Description: I bought this book because there was a hot chick in a schoolgirl uniform on the cover. TurnsI bought this book because there was a hot chick in a schoolgirl uniform on the cover. Turns out it was a book that would change my life, and introduce me to my new favorite writer. Alan Warner is huge in the UK and starting to be here, and from this book you can easily see why. Setting the gush aside, the book's god-damned fantastic. Read it, he's got a Joyce-like command of language....

2005-09-16