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Apr. 23rd, 2013 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livBack in 2010, I celebrated St George's day by setting up a book-recommending meme. I had a lot of fun with it, and discovered some cool new books, and expressed my fluffy-liberal-patriotism in a way that feels comfortable to me. It seems to be in the spirit of ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
three_weeks_for_dw since people are making an effort to meet new folk, so I think I'll run it again.
The idea is that you comment and recommend me a book, and I will rec you one in return. If I don't know you you can give me some clues as to what you like, or you can let me guess based on a snap judgement from scanning your profile. I'll keep trying until I find something you haven't read and like the sound of.
For my tastes, here's 10 years of booklog, if you're really keen. I read most genres with some preference for science fiction. I want books with good characters, then plot tied about equally with interesting ideas, and I like beautiful prose but I'd rather have a book with merely functional language and interesting characters than the other way round. I don't particularly care for horror or most action / thrillers, especially not if there's graphic violence. But I'm willing to expand my horizons if you suggest something really good! In any case I'm very happy if you just suggest something that you yourself like and you think isn't well known. Oh, and as well as English I read French and can sort of manage Swedish if it's not too dense / old-fashioned.
Who's on?
three_weeks_for_dw since people are making an effort to meet new folk, so I think I'll run it again.The idea is that you comment and recommend me a book, and I will rec you one in return. If I don't know you you can give me some clues as to what you like, or you can let me guess based on a snap judgement from scanning your profile. I'll keep trying until I find something you haven't read and like the sound of.
For my tastes, here's 10 years of booklog, if you're really keen. I read most genres with some preference for science fiction. I want books with good characters, then plot tied about equally with interesting ideas, and I like beautiful prose but I'd rather have a book with merely functional language and interesting characters than the other way round. I don't particularly care for horror or most action / thrillers, especially not if there's graphic violence. But I'm willing to expand my horizons if you suggest something really good! In any case I'm very happy if you just suggest something that you yourself like and you think isn't well known. Oh, and as well as English I read French and can sort of manage Swedish if it's not too dense / old-fashioned.
Who's on?
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Date: 2013-04-23 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-24 02:21 pm (UTC)Asimov's writing is not so much directly sexist as most of the time forgetting that women even exist. None of his characters are that great, characterization isn't really his forte, but his occasional female characters aren't especially worse than his male ones. Susan Calvin is a major figure in the Robot shorts and books, and she's basically the ur-Asimov character, extremely geeky, extremely able, with no patience for emotions or political considerations or anything other than engineering problems she can always magically solve. However he does occasionally try to write women who are attractive to his male protagonists and this is quite often full of fail.
In many ways Asimov's shorts are better than his novels, and his long series are very bumpy in quality. I'm quite fond of The end of eternity.