Comments on: All Tomorrows: Goodbye, Algis Budrys

By: cappy

cappy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:45:33 +0000

Best book I’ve read in a long while was the collected “Morgaine Saga,” by CJ Cherryh.

Limited-third-person writing FTW. Can’t get enough of it — you want immersive writing, that’s where it’s at.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:06:56 +0000

@Ben Morris. Your story of finding Borges has a Borgesian tilt to it as well, how suiting.

I can’t think of what my “finest” book is. I want to say Dune, or Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling. But maybe it’s Oryx and Crake by Atwood. Or maybe something a tad more capital L Literary (though I don’t know what that would be.)

By: Jerem Morrow

Jerem Morrow — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:05:34 +0000

Seems the easy choice, but the BEST OF H.P. LOVECRAFT is never very far from thought. It was my first foray into his mind and it left me shell-shocked. Imagine…horror for the atheist! The Exorcist never did it for me, but here in my hot little hands, I had terror so sheer, it still keeps me up.

By: Jess Nevins

Jess Nevins — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:57:56 +0000

Budrys’ early criticism, I agree, was very useful.

Then he got involved with the $cientologists and lost all credibility.

By: R.

R. — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:18:14 +0000

The finest book…Mine would be Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. It’s one of the few books that has stuck with me and had me re-reading it immediately after I finished it. My copy is so tattered and worn that it’s not even readable anymore.

By: Ben Morris

Ben Morris — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:59:26 +0000

Finest book: The collected short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. Several years ago a friend lent me his copy, telling me that I would love it. He was entirely correct. After reading most of it I moved and in the course of the move I managed to lose it. I bought a copy to replace his and one for myself, only to find his original shortly afterwards.

By: What's in a name anyways?

What's in a name anyways? — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:30:23 +0000

The fall by Albert Camus. I got to pick ten books from my uncles book case. I love the way it’s written, the story and the message.

By: Jake von Slatt

Jake von Slatt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:53:32 +0000

The books of Algis Budrys are the ones I remember the best of all of the books I’ve read. Somehow I didn’t read them all at once the way I usually do, but spread out over the years and I remember distinctly where I was when I read each one whether in be deep in the stacks of my High School’s library or on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard twenty years later.