Gah! Posted in the wrong journal!

[conuly]

I wish we could change what journal a post is in from the edit page...

ANYway.

I would like to add specific authors/books/series to the community interests, but we're limited to 150 interests and I don't want to leave anybody out by filling it with only MY favorite books and authors.

So suggestions on this are very much appreciated. Just post your favorite book or author or series that you think could use some nice icons.

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[minkhollow]

Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Discworld, Good Omens, Neverwhere, Hitchhiker's Guide, Lord of the Rings...
I think I'm done now.

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[conuly]

Neverwhere? What's that? *dying of curiosity*

I'm slightly reluctant to do LotR because they've GOT icon communities, tons of them.

[minkhollow]

Neverwhere is a VERY spiffy book by Neil Gaiman, and I think there's also a TV-show version of it (rather like the Hitchhiker's Guide TV show). I don't know exactly how to go about explaining it, but it's lovely. Many jokes based on the London Underground, for one thing.

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[sauscony.livejournal.com]

Most of the LOTR communites I've seen are movie based, so maybe some people could make book based icons here (mine is a combination of both- movie pic, book dialogue).

Most of my favorite authors are pretty obscure, so I don't know if you would want to add any of them except Lois McMaster Bujold, Clive Barker, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Robin McKinley (my other favorites include Catherine Asaro, Joan D. Vinge, Jane S. Fancher, and Sheri S. Tepper). Other authors who I don't rank among my favorites, but I know they are well liked are Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey.

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[feathered.livejournal.com]

Yaaay, Joan D. Vinge. I like her quite a bit. And Robin McKinley, too. If we added her, we might get people posting cool fairy-tale-esque icons, and that would be lovely. I think Clive Barker should definitely be added -- Abarat icons are so cool. I want more than just my lone fishy lady.

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[feathered.livejournal.com]

Uly-dahling, you MUST read Neil Gaiman's books. And add him to the interests... Do graphic novels count as books? I would actually quite like it if people posted Sandman icons, but I'm not sure exactly how you're going to define 'books,' soo...

Hummm. Didja put Diana Wynne Jones in? You could maybe add Robin Hobb to lure in some of the people from my community. I remember someone posting icons related to the books a while back.

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[conuly]

Sure do, but I don't know any at all, so other people have to list 'em.

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[feathered.livejournal.com]

Well, Sandman is always a good place to start...

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, was fantastic. I just read that one recently. Blankets by someone whose name I've forgotten has gotten good reviews, but I didn't like it much myself. A good graphic novel series that with beautiful art that would make fantastic icons is David Mack's Kabuki.

I think all of the others that I like might be too underground or too silly...

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[conuly]

And who's Robin Hobb?

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[feathered.livejournal.com]

Robin Hobb is one of my favourite fantasy authors. She wrote the assassin trilogy, the liveship traders trilogy, and most recently the tawny man trilogy. All good books. Another good (and fairly popular) fantasy author is George R. R. Martin, author of the Song of Ice and Fire series.

[minkhollow]

::facepalms:: Should've mentioned Patricia Wrede the first time. Enchanted Forest Chronicles, natch, and there's also the two-book series with the magician wot I presently forget the name of.

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[conuly]

Luckily, I thought of her and added her, no problems :)

I don't know how many interests we're going to end up with, I'd like the book selection to be as eclectic as possible, so for now I'm putting EITHER the author OR the title. Just a forewarning.

And do you know, I kept staring at your icon, it took me this long to figure it out... Daria! Right?

[minkhollow]

Yes! And no.
Yes: The picture's a scene from "The Lawndale File" and one of my favortie moments from any cartoon - "Why are we all sneaking around in the dark with flashlights?"
No: The quote's from Moving Pictures. Wonderful book, wonderful quote, fits the moment perfectly. And it's better than the LotR option I was considering for icon-izing said quote.

[ronniekinns.livejournal.com]

The only ones I can think of right now are Tamora Pierce, The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) and the Hitchikers Guide. I would say HP and LotR, but there are so many communities dedicated to them... we could be original! :D

Anyways, I'll post some later if I think of them.

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[conuly]

I wouldn't mind putting Harry Potter down if, for once, I could get a HP icon that ISN'T based on the movies. I want my icons from the pics that start each chapter, but no such luck.

Alice Sebold? Tell me about her, her books?

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[midnightsmagic.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've been meaning to make some icons from the chapter pics from OotP. I take it these would be welcome?

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[conuly]

I'd die from happiness. Honestly. Well. No. But I'd be very happy.

So yes, they're welcome.

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[feathered.livejournal.com]

Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, a first novel told from the point of view of a murdered girl as she watches her family from heaven. It got rave reviews and was on the bestseller list for a long time, I think.

I didn't like it much myself. And I have trouble imagining it translated into icons. But if you want to draw people in with popular books, you might add it. I dunno. *shrugs*

[hifun55.livejournal.com]

Philip Pullman, Diane Daune, all my other favs are already named...

[kornchickalana.livejournal.com]

Victoria Hanley (The Seer and the Sword), Stephen King, Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), uhm...Franchesica Lia Block, Anne Rice... I might be able to think of something later..

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[conuly]

Oh, all books and authors I love. Well. Except for Anne Rice, I never could get into her.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Victor Hugo, Guy Gavriel Kay, C. J. Cherryh (I am nothing if not eclectic).

[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

Lemony Snicket and a Series of Unfortunate Events! And The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper. And Narnia! Everyone loves Narnia!
Roald Dahl too, then you get the oh-so-funky Quentin Blake illustrations of Wily Wonka and the like.

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[(Anonymous)]

Diana Wynne Jones, Enid Blyton, Lewis Caroll, Charles Dickens