Rec me!

[krislaughs]

Okay, folks; TWO WHOLE DAYS OFF!! (followed by five days of work and a one-week VACATION. On the beach between dives. This means HEAPS of time for reading.)

So that means HIT ME

This weekend, I'd love recs for X-men First class plotty fic, AU okay, Charles/Xavier (what? It's more canon than canon) and Hank/Alex or Alex/Darwin. Not so much into Alex/Sean. Given the weekend (and, no, I don't have tickets yet. Bad fan, me) I'd read some classic Remus/Sirius HP fic. Also, Being Human US fic: always. Especially Aidan/Josh or TruBlood fic-- which I've never dabbled in since Charlene Harris writes it anyway *g*.

Next week, I'm placing an Amazon book order. I haven't gone the way of the kindle* but I'm looking for quality Urban Fantasy, really good straight fantasy or sci-fi, or surrealist/magical realism in fiction (esp Spanish authors).

*I have nothing against Kindles and I may go there for beach reading especially--less weight in my luggage and the Kindle, in particular, is functional in the sun. I like reading on a screen, as evidenced by all the fanfic I devour. I just a) really wish you could d/l large fanworks onto your kindle and b) wish that purchasing an e-title gave you more complete rights to it. Basically the cost is the same but the rights are far more limited than for buying a real book. I would, however, buy a "package" with the paper and digital versions included for some kind of discount...

Comments

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

With a note on fanworks - you kind of can, depending on the fanwork. AO3 has an e-book downloader, and I read all kinds of fic on my Kobo. Various authors (Big Pink is the one that comes to mind immediately) make their work available in .pdf, which my Kobo also likes. I'm not sure what the Kindle is like format-wise, but I was able to choose from a variety on AO3.

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Well, if I can get long, plotty fanworks on it, the kindle would be a whole lot more interesting....

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Seriously. It's awesome.

Not so great for stuff that hasn't been uploaded to AO3, obviously (*eyes giant long plotty Star Wars fic of awesome on ffnet wistfully*) but for other stuff, gosh, yes.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

The formats available (by clicking the little download link at the top right of a story page) are Mobi, Epub, HTML, and PDF.:)

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, you!

You're gonna get me to buy a kindle rather than carry my stack of novels to the Caribbean, aren't you? Because I have a pile of paper, yo!

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor is both sci fi *and* magical realism and one of the best books I've read in a very very very long time. It's harrowing and sad, so perhaps not ideal for vacation reading, but SO GOOD.

Wait, I can't remember - have you ever read The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch? And there's a sequel too, Red Seas Under Red Skies. They're, like, high fantasy heist adventure stories about bromantic gentlemen criminals who steal stuff and are also sometimes pirates. Excellent beach reading, if you haven't read them already. (I feel like everybody on my flist has, but who knows?)

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

I have NOT read any Scott lynch, so will add both to the collection. As well as the one you rec'ed today (how to survive)

LORD, but I'm psyched to read for a week. Did I mention I finished The Wise Man's Fear as well? I loved it, despite any of the middle-childnovel complexes. He can't write the rest of the series fast enough, and it had better be more than one more book...

And THEN, I need to add YOURS to the list :D

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

Yay! They're lots of fun.

You did not mention! I'll have to read those books someday soon. I'm not entirely sure where my copy of the first is. Probably in a box somewhere, with all my other books I can't find.

NOT RELATED: My Little Ponies/X-Men: First Class trailer. Just, you know. Because it exists. (The pies, omg.)

[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAA!

Between the rainbow!farts and the pie-in-the-sky!spittle, that was too many kinds of cracked nuts.

And I did add your most recent to the stack ;)

Um. So I might also have an XMFC!Casablanca open on my desktop, I'm just not entirely decided who'd make the best Rick, Charles or Erik. and I mean that in all seriousness. Erik is the obvious choice (including, in name) but Charles, especially the FC!Charles I could imagine becoming so disillusioned and it doesn't even bear mentioning that he would pwn the hell out of a nightclub/casino... IDEK.