Book meme

[jack]

Command me!

I will read the first book which is suggested in this post's comments section.

So long as I've not read it already, and I can get hold of a copy. Gakked from lnr. Feel free to suggest more.

Comments

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

OK, Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveller.

(S)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

But since you weren't first, you have to persuade me ;)

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller is a book about books: choosing and buying them, reading them, sharing them with others. But it's also a mystery: who actually wrote this book anyway? As the Reader in the book, a little way in you wonder whether it was actually written by Calvino at all or in fact by another author, and as you attempt to find the book you first wanted to read you twist and turn through ten pastiches of different novelistic forms. But since you have a companion on this journey, the Other Reader, the story is also a romance as your detective work brings you together on the textual trail through the book. It's a deeply odd volume, and great fun.

(S)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah! I see Liz's review too. I'd like to try at some point.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I recently read If on a winter's night a traveller and I posted my thoughts here.

Even though I am not first, I suggest you read Counting Heads by David Marusek, which is a very good near-future cloning/nanotech/AI story.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah! I do remember reading that. I want to, just because there it was between Stephenson and Anansi :)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I've not read that, but I've read other Calvino and enjoyed them.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Squee! I have the original Italian. :-)