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Originally Posted by zifnab

'Pattern Recognition' is still sitting on its proper spot on my shelf, unread, collecting dust. But at least his autograph is still intact.

Good plan. An autographed book in pristine condition always fetches a better price.

Originally Posted by Lushie

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, because I have to keep up with the Joneses.

Some of us who do the parental taxi thing pass time while waiting by reading and pass around the books we've brought. I've read Anita Diamant's The Red Tent this way and was really grabbed by the first page of Never Let Me Go. But drat the parent reading it hadn't finished it and took it away with her on holidays. I'm hoping it won't be the kind of book left behind at the cottage. The parent who raved about Diamant thought Ishiguro was really weird, but she isn't a Jones.

Pratchett's Witches Abound has to hold the record for most one liners worked into a plot. Unless there's another of his books which I haven't read that beats it.

Folwren, Child of the Seventh Age swears by Till We Have Faces. That's two recommendations I've heard in one week for it.