'Efest Book Recommendations Thread

[ussusimiel]

It was suggested (by Softy, I think) that we should start a thread of the books that were mentioned during 'Efest conversations.

I'll start with a few and we can remind each other if there aresome that we've forgotten:

Magician by Raymond Feist (Just cos it's a really good book)
The Empire Series by Raymond Feist (He draws names from the Abq area: Acoma, Xacatecas etc.)
Ham on Rye (novel) by Charles Bukowski (for lorin)
The Pleasures of the Damned (poetry) by Charles Bukowski

u.

[aliantha]

Oh, right. I forgot about this....

If I didn't mention Tony Hillerman during the 'Fest, I should have. His mysteries are set on the Navajo reservation in northeastern New Mexico, not far from where we were. Lots of Native American lore interwoven in his books. And I discovered at the Governor's Palace gift shop in Santa Fe that his daughter has taken up the series. I read "Spider Woman's Daughter" by Anne Hillerman on the plane on the way home. Good stuff. And the clerk in the gift shop told me she's writing another one.

[Orlion]

Oh, I see how it is, just a book recommendations for you hootie-tootie 'e-festers...

Well, fine! The rest of us will have our own book recommendations thread... with black jack...and hookers!

In fact, forget the book recommendations

[rdhopeca]

Oh, I see how it is, just a book recommendations for you hootie-tootie 'e-festers...

Well, fine! The rest of us will have our own book recommendations thread... with black jack...and hookers!

In fact, forget the book recommendations

I can skip the blackjack, yes?

[aliantha]

Oh pshaw, Orlion. You can join in, if you want. We'll even let you read the books we've recommended.

[Frostheart Grueburn]

And there that nickname appears again. *sigh* It seems that the battle-hardened Swordmain imago has been ruined for good.

Inside the Neolithic Mind (recced for lurchy, I think...); a study of how human neurology and altered states of mind may have shaped mythology and beliefs (and why all shamanistic cultures share some common religious elements)

Reading a derivative, rather similar book called Prehistoric Belief: Shamans, Trance and the Afterlife at the moment; it expands the time frame and selection of cultures.

Both contain outdated and biased info about the Neanderthals, however. According to some new study, they for instance produced the first European cave paintings instead of Cro-Magnons.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen to anything and anyone above the IQ level of an amoeba. The next best thing after TCTC.

[aliantha]

Inside the Neolithic Mind (recced for lurchy, I think...); a study of how human neurology and altered states of mind may have shaped mythology and beliefs (and why all shamanistic cultures share some common religious elements)

Reading a derivative, rather similar book called Prehistoric Belief: Shamans, Trance and the Afterlife at the moment; it expands the time frame and selection of cultures.

Sounds cool. I'll have to look for 'em. Thanks, Softy.

[ussusimiel]

I'm going to include some music references as well:

• - Jackson Browne (our anthemic roadtrip music) especially 'Running On Empty' for lorin's desert freakouts
  
  - Pierce Turner - 'Among the Wicklow Hills'

u.

[lorin]

I'm going to include some music references as well:

• - Jackson Browne (our anthemic roadtrip music) especially 'Running On Empty' for lorin's desert freakouts

u.

That is too funny. To fill in the missing context, U has a habit of running down the car to below zero gas in the middle of the desert. For a compulsive planner like me it was a source of many meltdowns and some hysteria. (well, maybe more than some)

Still waiting for the Freak Out Timeline.

[lucimay]

The Malazan Book of the Fallen to anything and anyone above the IQ level of an amoeba.

we didn't get to talk about Erikson at Efest!!!!! poo! so glad to know you've read it!