(running in and huffing and puffing from finding out about this late (it’s that damn constitutional research I am always doing…))
Okay, Ike, how about something relating to linguistics, something reasonably new…Please? 
Pluto—
Surely you don’t think I’m as small a person as THAT! Besides, I don’t think Ike has read any of my books, so it would not behoove him to recommend them . . . After all, they might suck!
“What about me, Mr. Youngblood?”
Where’s my book? Maybe SF&F or historical fiction…
p.s. I hope somebody knows what I’m talking about…
“It’s not death I fear so much as leaving something so beautiful as life.”
Yeah, right.
Paid cash money for them too. It’s not like anybody gave me a COMP copy…
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Hmmmmm…well, when Unc gives you your own thread, you can freely impose your taste for pot-boilers on the TM. Me, I would never ask my friends and/or colleagues to read books by women with three names.
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Esprix: Psssssst…Evelyn Waugh’s a guy. And pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain. VILE BODIES is fine, but it ain’t no DECLINE AND FALL.
MoosieGirl: Gabrielle d’Annunzio’s THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH. The Great Italian Decadent Masterpiece by the 20th century Italian superman, mentor of Mussolini.
DSYoungEsq: Noam Chomsky’s ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX. The classic of modern linguistic theory. Maybe it’s a little outdated, but hey, it’s a classic.
Sunshine: Mervyn Peake’s TITUS GROAN, the first of the Gormenghast books. and if you like it, finish the trilogy.
Uke
Ike:
I have not. Indeed, I don’t think I’ve read anything by Bennett. My loss, no doubt. So as soon as I finish Heaney’s new translation of Beowulf and Derek Walcott’s new collection, Tiepolo’s Hound, The Old Wives’ Tale it is. Much obliged.
“Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” –Satchel Paige
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Our host said
Thank you for the recommendation Uke. I have read all of Father Brown (and you just reminded me that my Father Brown collection was loaned to a friend several years ago and never returned! the bastard!), but Nero Wolfe only here and there in mystery compilations. Maybe I’ll get a collection of his, and I will look up K. C. Constantine. Thank you!
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Ike: Guess what? I own A History of God. Haven’t read it yet, though. It’s one of those books that looked utterly fabulous when I bought it, and I had every intention of reading it, and…then I had kids. I’ve had it for a while.
My husband is going away next week, though. Maybe I’ll read while he’s gone! Yeah!
Cristi, Slayer of Peeps
I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday.
(title & sig courtesy of UncleBeer and WallyM7!)
(thinking this isn’t the sort of recommendation Cristi’s been getting in her What do I do while my husband is away? thread (LOL))
YeeIke’s! Thanks fer the book. I’ve never heard of him, but sounds good, as East Texas is the never never land even Mississippifficianadoes shy from, lessen there’s some legal hellhounds on yer trail…
But, I have a wide-ranging intellect, outside of the Southern Ghetto, so I don’t see why you had to…
:::glancing out the window at the 64 Valiant up on blocks, and goats eating what was left of the yard:::
Hell, yer right…
I’m gonna print up this thread, though, as a great summer reading list…
And I hope the THREADSPOTTING GODS—YOOO-HOOO! call it to the attention of everyone!
Arnold: If you can get your hands on the SECOND book in the series, THE LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN (1935), trust me, you will be hooked on Nero Wolfe FOREVER. The other 1930s books are very good, too…THE RED BOX, THE RUBBER BAND, SOME BURIED CAESAR, and especially TOO MANY COOKS.
Cristi: There you go.
elelle: I was thinking about suggesting a piece of Yankee fiction, but changed my mind, and am ready to provide you with the Death Tale of the SUPREME CRACKER… After you do Lansdale, try David Zinman’s THE DAY HUEY LONG WAS SHOT (Univ. of Mississippi Press, 1993). A brilliant piece of historical writing, and a detective story to boot…
Uke
Forget about me, Uke.
I’ve read all the books.
Uke – a Lansdale fan!? Well, then I know I can trust your judgment. I trust you’ve already pre-ordered Blood Dance and The Bottoms?
Back to the OP: My daughter wants to read a novel, set in the south, around the time of the Civil War, from the black point of view? If not a novel, then non-fiction would be okay, providing it doesn’t read like a textbook.
Uke, I got turned down today by a really cute guy, and I’m PMS’ing.
I want you to know that this made my day a 100% better - thanks.
So - when do I get my switches? 
I do not merely dance. I bewitch. I seduce. I enchant and I bewilder. Throw money.
(Gee, Wally must have seen me dance!)
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Late as usual. May I have a recommendation, please, Mr. Uke? History, non-fiction, pre-twentieth century (the subject, I mean; not necessarily the book). Not legal history, sil vous plait. Many thanks.
Jodi
Fiat Justitia
Wally: Thanks for stopping by! Do come again! {jingle of the little bell over the door}
AuntiePam: Trust me, I’ve SEEN your Lansdale recommendations, and they have warmed my bitter old heart. I’m waiting impatiently for THE BOTTOMS, but BLOOD DANCE is a new one on me…when’s it out? Who’s the publisher?
As for a book for your daughter…the apple of my eye, Little Pianola (9 years old) just finished James Lincoln Collier’s WAR COMES TO WILLY FREEMAN, and swears by it. Is your daughter in the same age range? I’ve read Collier’s nonfiction books on jazz, and he’s a damn good writer, but I think it’s his YA fiction that puts the bread and butter on his table.
Zyada: {gulp, grin, flustered adjustment of clothing}
jodih: TWO ideas for you, very different books I’ve read over the past year. Thomas D. Clark’s PILLS, PETTICOATS, & PLOWS: THE SOUTHERN COUNTRY STORE. A history of general mercantile stores and storekeepers across the American Southeast between 1865 and the early 20th century.
If you want something with a grander sweep, Edward Crankshaw’s THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF HABSBURG. The story of the final decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the destruction of the old European order that marked a turning point in world history. Old Vienna and the lead-up to WWI. I LOVE that stuff!
Uke
Blood Dance will be available through Subterranean Press, this month, I think. They’re doing a great job getting Joe’s work out to his fans. (The Magic Wagon is the only one I haven’t been able to find.)
And the book recommendation for my daughter? She’s 33. I guess I could have said that in the first place. Another suggestion, maybe?
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Dear Book Man,
I am a short attention span woman. I like to laugh. I have read most of P.J. O’Rourke’s,Nearly all of Dave Barry’s, and I grew up on Erma Bombeck. ( All in different leagues, but they still play the same game.) Writers who mock others and poke fun at this thing we call life.
I need something fresh. Crisp. Something that will make me laugh and think, but not think too much. Dear God, that would be too much like work.
Am I hopeless?
Signed,
Shirley needs a Jesting.
cheerfully Nope, never even heard of it. Or of Joseph Roth. Or Thomas Manna or Robert Musil, for that matter.
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