Stolen from kcst. Procrastination.

[ionic]

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[chiasmus.livejournal.com]

I've had the motivation in passing, though mostly ended up turning that into random character analysis. Laziness is the death of much. :O Hmm. Off the top of my head, which I think I already told you before, there's The Kite Runner, and I'm really liking the The Hours, by Michael Cunningham. I also recommend his other novel A Home at the End of the World. Digging into the historical fiction category, there's As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann, which isn't as cheesy romance-y as the title probably sounds, and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault, since I'm a not quite closeted Alexander the Great fan. Don't know if you've checked her out before, but I recommend Storm Constantine for the fantasy area; Wraeththu tends to be a good place to start.

(And most of my recs are slashy in nature, save Kite Runner.)

[vacivity.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs. :D. I tried Constantine's books once, but I could not get into it, as such is the case with me and a lost of fantasy novels (I think I need to be in the right mood for it and I haven't lately, unless it's modern fantasy-ish stuff). I've been thinking about picking up some of Renault's works, but I wasn't sure where to start at, so that's definitely going on my reading list. And I will check out The Hours; is it anything like the movie? A friend is actually reading The Kite Runner now, so I'm going to borrow it from him when he's done. I'll look into the others as well, I'm sure my library or local book store has one of them to pick up when I am done with my current books.

[chiasmus.livejournal.com]

I like her on most days; on a modern fantasy front she wrote her Grigori trilogy, which seems harder to come by (Stalking Tender Prey I believe is the first one). It's more heavily based on playing with the fallen angel stuff it takes it's grounding in though. I think The Persian Boy is where most people start with Renault, though if you want to go in chronological order Fire From Heaven comes first. Her stuff is mostly in ancient Greece, though she's got a couple other books that take place in the early twentieth century (like The Charioteer, which was WWI or WWII, I forget). It's fairly similar to the movie; most of the major differences I seem to be picking up on are in terms of the visuals the book gives me versus what I remember in the movie.