# Doper recommendations you enjoyed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066 "2009-03-11T13:03:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/41 "2009-03-12T17:18:48Z")
xkcd Never heard of it til I read the forum. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/42 "2009-03-12T17:49:37Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Smiles modestly. (Glad I could finally return the favor, after all the recommendations you’ve given me over the years.) > > I definitely need to mention **Marley23** by name – he emailed me (this was before we had PM) and insisted I check out Derek Trucks. I’m not sure what about what I’d said about what music made him know that I would join that particular cult, but I absolutely have – he is quite possibly my favorite guitarist _ever_, and I am moderately knowlegable (for a non-musician) about good guitar. I didn’t post to this thread, but I picked up this CD on the recommendations of **Twixter, WordMan and Marley23** , and it rocks! I’ve been listening to it almost exclusivly for the last couple weeks. I also picked up [Mosaic Records Boogie Woogie piano](http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MS-030) recommended by **WordMan** too, and it’s great, just the kind of stuff I love. Next up on my list to look into is the slide guitarist Sonny Landreth. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/43 "2009-03-12T17:51:51Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > I didn’t post to this thread, but I picked up this CD on the recommendations of **Twixter, WordMan and Marley23** , and it rocks! I’ve been listening to it almost exclusivly for the last couple weeks. I also picked up [Mosaic Records Boogie Woogie piano](http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MS-030) recommended by **WordMan** too, and it’s great, just the kind of stuff I love. Next up on my list to look into is the slide guitarist Sonny Landreth. Cool - but you have to get some [Jeff Beck and Peter Green](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508278), too! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/44 "2009-03-12T19:27:12Z")
OK - Jeff Beck I know of (Highway Jam off the top of my head). Truth, Peter Green - on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/45 "2009-03-12T19:33:56Z")
Duh, and the Yardbirds. Curse my aging addled brain. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/46 "2009-03-12T19:42:17Z")
Nothing yet, although I’ve been meaning to ask for some book recommendations. I’ll probably make a post when my classes get easier. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/47 "2009-03-12T22:47:30Z")
I don’t remember who it was but somebody on this board once recommended SF author Robert Charles Wilson. I hadn’t read his work before but now he’s one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/48 "2009-03-12T23:14:38Z")
Also, thanks to the SDMB I now have a totally awesome asian girlfriend. Thanks, SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/49 "2009-03-12T23:15:44Z")
[**CalMeacham** turned me on to _The Last of Sheila_ back in 2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101616), for which I am eternally grateful. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/50 "2009-03-13T06:01:49Z")
There have been a lot, but the only comes to mind right now is [Solaar Pleure](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM27PrVgWNI), a song by French rapper MC Solaar. Thank you, whoever you were! My favorite rap song ever (I’m not a huge rap fan, but this ranks up there with faves from other genres). The combination of the lyrics and music is just so beautiful. (just ignore the video, doesn’t do the song justice…) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/51 "2009-03-13T06:18:10Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > Me, too! I’m just finishing up ‘The Good War’ by Studs Terkel, to which I was led by a thread on World War Z. You’re welcome. Well someone in one of the World War Z threads said they were going to read The Good War after I mentioned it, I don’t remember if it was you. I learned of World War Z from here. Maybe I would have discovered it on my own. I picked up the Dresden Files because of here. I was curious because of the new at the time TV series and the books were recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/52 "2009-03-13T11:10:19Z")
David Foster Wallace. Thanks, **WordMan**. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/53 "2009-03-13T11:33:14Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > David Foster Wallace. Thanks, **WordMan**. 😉 btw, I read that first, obscure essay of his you found. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066/54 "2009-03-13T16:16:06Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > You’re welcome. Well someone in one of the World War Z threads said they were going to read The Good War after I mentioned it, I don’t remember if it was you. I learned of World War Z from here. Maybe I would have discovered it on my own. I picked up the Dresden Files because of here. I was curious because of the new at the time TV series and the books were recommended. Yup, that was me, and thank you!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-recommendations-you-enjoyed/489066.md?page=2)