Book Meme, Day 10 & 11
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selenak10. Reminds me of someone I love.
I had a younger brother who died when he was 16. We were in some regards quite different, including books - I was always trying to get him to read, with tactics including reading books he liked and stopping at a cliffhanger, for example. And in the year he died, he discovered for the first time books on his own, which I hadn't read first, and which he loved and wanted to share with me, instead of the other way around. Since he'd also just discovered fantasy role playing, these books were the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This is why I can't think of them objectively; I can't not associate them with him, and his excited "you must read these" ramble.
11. Secondhand bookshop gem.
Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson volumes had been recced to me as some of the best political biographies ever by various sources. Each volume weighs a ton, but it just so happened that one of the two English language bookstores in Munich, the one only offering second hand books, had the set pretty cheaply. They were as great as advertised.
1. Favorite book from childhood
2. Best Bargain
3. One with a blue cover.
4. Least favorite book by favorite author
5. Doesn't belong to me.
6. The one I always give as a gift.
7. Forgot I owned it.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or tv tie-in.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite fictional father.
16. Can't believe more people haven't read.
17. Future classic.
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
20. Favorite cover.
21. Summer read.
22. Out of print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
25. Never finished it.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.
I had a younger brother who died when he was 16. We were in some regards quite different, including books - I was always trying to get him to read, with tactics including reading books he liked and stopping at a cliffhanger, for example. And in the year he died, he discovered for the first time books on his own, which I hadn't read first, and which he loved and wanted to share with me, instead of the other way around. Since he'd also just discovered fantasy role playing, these books were the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This is why I can't think of them objectively; I can't not associate them with him, and his excited "you must read these" ramble.
11. Secondhand bookshop gem.
Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson volumes had been recced to me as some of the best political biographies ever by various sources. Each volume weighs a ton, but it just so happened that one of the two English language bookstores in Munich, the one only offering second hand books, had the set pretty cheaply. They were as great as advertised.
1. Favorite book from childhood
2. Best Bargain
3. One with a blue cover.
4. Least favorite book by favorite author
5. Doesn't belong to me.
6. The one I always give as a gift.
7. Forgot I owned it.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or tv tie-in.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite fictional father.
16. Can't believe more people haven't read.
17. Future classic.
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
20. Favorite cover.
21. Summer read.
22. Out of print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
25. Never finished it.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.
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Date: 2018-06-13 02:49 pm (UTC)I remember reading the first Drangonlance trilogy; it wasn’t bad -- I was pleased that I was correct in assessing the crazy, incompetent old wizard as Obviously Someone Important In Disguise.
Slightly odd and off-topic (except for being about books) question – I’ve recently been trying to look up some mid-century detective novels featuring a detective named Inspector/ Kriminaldirektor Türk, by a writer named Hans G. Bentz, who I gather is better-known for humorous animal stories; I can barely find anything about them even on German-language websites. Do they ring any bells with you? (I realize it’s quite likely they’re something like Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver or H.C. Bailey’s Reggie Fortune mysteries, and saw print in their time but aren’t household names today.)
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Date: 2018-06-14 12:32 pm (UTC)Alas, I'll have to pass - I have heard neither of Bentz nor Türk.
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