Suggestion Quest

[vovat]

I've done memes like this several times in the past, and I haven't seen anyone else do it recently, but I'm in the mood to solicit some suggestions, so why not?

Recommend to me:

1. A book you think I should read
2. A video game I should check out
3. A musician/band I should look into
4. A blog/journal you think I might like (and don't suggest your own LJ, because I'll check that out anyway if you comment)
5. A topic you think I should cover on my own journal

If you want to give more than one suggestion for any category, or you can't think of anything for one or more of them, that's fine with me. It's all very informal, you know?

Comments

[jadavisofmo.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

1. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
3. (Uh... No idea. Need to listen to more music.)
4. http://alancook.wordpress.com/
5. (What have you NOT done?)

[travspence.livejournal.com]

1. In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
2. Space Invaders Extreme
3. Modern Skirts
4. Cakewrecks
5. Your sex life ;-P

[spookydiblover.livejournal.com]

1) Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
2) Retro Game Master for DS. A lot more inventive and fun than the title makes it sound. Based on a Japanese TV show about a middle aged man reliving old games from his childhood which is equally entertaining.
3) I listen to a lot of Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark. If you like orchestral stuff, check out some Michael Nyman.
4) http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/
5) I dunno! You do write about many things.

[annamatic.livejournal.com]

1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
3. Joanna Newsom
4. www.garfieldminusgarfield.net
5. Political musings

[billiedoll.livejournal.com]

1. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
2. Psychonauts
3. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
4. (stumped)
5. Scraps, the Patchwork Girl

[revme.livejournal.com]

1. Wall of the Sky, Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem. (Also anything DFW, but you knew I was gonna say that.)
2. Professor Layton & The Curious Village is fun. The story's eh, but the puzzles are mostly rad.
3. Foetus/JG Thirlwell -- a bit harder than some of the stuff you typically like, but it's really cool. I like _Love_ and _Sink_ the best probably.
4. Slacktivist! slacktivist.typepad.com/
5. PORN. (actually, it could be interesting!)

[zimbra1006.livejournal.com]

1. The Book of Lost Things by John Connoly or The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue (it's very likely you've already read those, but just in case you haven't, I think you might like them)
2. Hmm.. I don't know! Have you played the newish PC game Sam & Max? It's fun (I was a big fan of the old 90s one).
3. Have you listened to Sprites? They write cute dancey/poppy songs about video games, overclocking, George Romero, and other nerdy topics.
4. I've recently discovered Cake Wrecks and it usually makes me laugh pretty hard.
5. I'm having trouble thinking of one you do not cover! :)

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

1. I swear I've mentioned the YA series Percy Jackson and the Olympians (by Rick Riordan) to you before, but I do have to make a formal recommendation, because it's a highly amusing, fun take on Greek Mythology and therefore you might get more of a kick out of it than the average person even. Also, ever since I ILLed the title in the series my library didn't have and so finally got back on track and started reading them again, I'm all about recommending Diane Duane's Young Wizards series to everyone, but you in particular might be interested in the way she weaves myth and science together to explain magic. And a very weird but interesting YA I read last year, Madapple by Christina Meldrum (possibly spelled her name wrong), probably the only YA novel I've ever seen to raise issues relating to the Gnostic Gospels, other religions swirling about at the time of Early Christianity, and how all these things tie together.

2. Yeah like I know anything here. I made up for it with the first suggestion (or three).

3. Well, I know things here, but you already know many obscure things. I could dig deeper into old psychedelia for you, but I don't know what you already know or if you would even like the stuff you don't know.

4. I don't know HOW much you'd find interesting from her, but one of my favorite bloggers is a children's librarian in NYC, Fuse #8-- and I think of you when I read her sometimes because she also apparently follows Oz and Ends (and knows something of, you know, actual Oz books) and occasionally you and she will link to the same posts there.

5. Um... MORE book reviews?

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

1. The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld (random good quotes from The Coulour of Magic to Making Money, with index of topics at the back) or Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (very interesting recipes from the Discworld books, some of them...shall we say...erotic)
2. Golden Sun and Golden Sun:The Lost Age (RPG with djinn that can be combined into larger, more powerful summons; several links to mythology, especially to the "Serpent" of Izumo, or the Yamata no Orochi of Japanese mythology)
3. Eisley (listed under rock music usually, but more folksy/world; very easy to listen to/soothing, with some fantasy elements to their work)
4. I can't think of any blogs right now that you would be interested in.
5. Discworld (you never seem to post about it)