Feeding My Six-Books-a-Month Addiction

[queerbychoice]

I'm going used-book shopping online again and I need more recommendations because I get free shipping if I spend $50 and I'm not up to $50 yet. I already looked through all the books previously recommended by people on my friends list, but lots of you weren't around last time I asked and anyway, I need more suggestions now so please recommend stuff.

As a guide to my literary tastes: authors listed on my LiveJournal interests list include: Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Anchee Min, Arundhati Roy, Audre Lorde, Banana Yoshimoto, Bertha Harris, Caryl Churchill, Christopher Isherwood, Don DeLillo, e. e. cummings, Edmund White, Edwidge Danticat, Emily Dickinson, Gayl Jones, Gertrude Stein, Gore Vidal, Haruki Murakami, James Baldwin, Jeanette Winterson, Joanna Russ, Julia Alvarez, Kate Millett, Kobo Abe, Langston Hughes, Leo Tolstoy, Leslie Feinberg, Li Yu, Milan Kundera, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Pablo Neruda, Quentin Crisp, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and Tony Kushner.

But don't recommend any of those because obviously I've already read them.

Also, recommend mostly fiction because if you recommend nonfiction I probably won't be in the mood to buy it right now. Though if anyone here has read Jonathan Ned Katz's The Invention of Heterosexuality, which I've been putting off buying for a couple of years now, I'd love to hear that one reviewed.

P.S. to Raven: Don't worry, Stranger in a Strange Land is already in my shopping cart.

Comments

[embryomystic.livejournal.com]

Smoke and Mirrors, Good Omens, Neverwhere, Stardust, by Neil Gaiman. Well, Good Omens is cowritten with Terry Pratchett, and I haven't read Stardust yet.

[frankepi.livejournal.com]

if you're going to read Gaiman, you should start with either American Gods or Dream Hunters (in my humble opinion)

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[embryomystic.livejournal.com]

Neverwhere or Smoke & Mirrors is a better starting point, in MY opinion. haha. *poke*

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[frankepi.livejournal.com]

my favorite gaiman is actually his kids book with dave mckean: the day i mistook my dad for two goldfish. it's amazing.

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[embryomystic.livejournal.com]

I think I've heard of that. I wonder if my local library has it.

[frankepi.livejournal.com]

the day i SWAPPED my dad for two goldfish...

i'm a dumbass.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Wow, I hadn't even noticed that little word change. Actually, I think your title is more interesting. You should rewrite the book accordingly.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

But Dream Hunters appears to be a comic book, which it's almost certainly not a good idea to start me off with.

American Gods is probably good, but it's far too expensive for me to start out with it.

I do, however, intend to purchase The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish.

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[frankepi.livejournal.com]

Dream Hunters is more like a novella with paintings.