January 2013 Random Read Nominations

[mark, personal space invader]

please post your nominations!

[mark, personal space invader]

and i'll start off by nominating a classic that i should have read decades ago: Alas, Babylon

[Periklis]

The Book of Ptath

[Tyrone]

I'd like to recommend All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman. I read this shortly after the The Forever War and loved it almost as much.

[mark, personal space invader]

i remember really liking that Haldeman. my younger self really loved the cover too.

[Tyrone]

Mine had this cover...which i also loved.

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

I want to nominate Fuzzy Nation...I have been wanting to read that for a long time.

[Kevin]

How about Shards of Honor?

[LindaJ^]

Maggie wrote: "I want to nominate Fuzzy Nation...I have been wanting to read that for a long time."

second

[Baffi]

I second both "Fuzzy Nation" and "Shards of Honor". Damn, this is going to be hard. And that's why I won't nominate anything myself.

[Richard]

How's about Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard.

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

Richard wrote: "How's about Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard."

I have had this book waiting tbr forever!

[Marjorie]

May I just second Shards of Honor and raise it to the entire duology, which is actually more of a 2-part very long book?

contains Shards of Honour as well as Barrayar, which together comprise the beginning of an epic space opera by Lois McMaster Bujold - The Vorkosigan Saga is a series for which Lois has won more Hugos and Nebulas than anyone else (short of Heinlein, who won precisely ONE more than her in his prolific career - but she's not done writing yet!)

There are something like 17 books (plus 3 or 4 short stories) in The Vorkosigan Saga so if you want to get hooked, start by "going shopping" with Cordelia in Cordelia's Honor. Just never bring a gun to a sword fight (haha).

-Friday
@phoenicianbooks

[Matthew]

Tyrone wrote: "I'd like to recommend All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman. I read this shortly after the The Forever War and loved it almost as much."

This seems like it would be a great read.

[Tyrone]

Matthew wrote: "This seems like it would be a great read."

Short too..if you have other monthly read commitments this is an ideal pick. ;-)

[Jessie J]

Haven't been active lately (no spare time) but I recently read "All My Sins Remembered" (great book), just bough "Fuzzy Nation" in a used book store, and the Vorkosigan Saga is one of my all-time favs, so rereading "Shards of Honor" would be great. I'm also open to new reads as well. :^)

[Marjorie]

I should add that although Cordelia's Honor costs $6 (direct from the publisher in all common formats for one price: click here for the Baen eBooks site), the second book of the Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice, is actually available from the Baen Free Library -- which means you can get it in all common eBook formats for free:

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1290-warriors-apprentice.aspx

-Friday
@phoenicianbooks

p.s. it's a "free sample" of the "reader crack" even if it's not picked for this group's group read :)

[mark, personal space invader]

lots of great suggestions everyone. i will close this thread now and a poll will go up later tonight.

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

Polls are up here:

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/48...