It's book and video and music recommendation time!

[annathepiper]

So, spazzkat, solarbird, and I are going to Japan for Worldcon this year. Which in and of itself warrants a large WOO!, but that's not the point of this post. The point of this post is that we will be in the air for a perfectly ridiculous number of hours getting to and from Yokohama, and so I'm thinking to load up my iPaq and my iPod with various amusing things to read and/or watch and and/or listen to.

So my question for you all is this: what ebook, audio book, movie, TV show, or album do you think I should purchase to take with me on this vacation to amuse myself?

What I like to read: science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, the occasional horror novel, romantic suspense, the occasional actual romance if it's a good one. Heck, I'll even read general fiction if it comes highly enough recommended.

What I like to listen to: I post enough about my favorite artists that y'all should already have a decent idea of what I like to listen to. Assume I'm already eying albums I don't already have yet by artists I already listen to (Carbon Leaf, Seven Nations, the Young Dubliners, Solas, Altan, most notably). Thanks to buying those collections of music that might have been played by Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, I have begun to develop a fondness for Vivaldi, Boccherini, Corelli, and other Italian composers as well. So I'm looking for recommendations that might fill in a sentence like "since you already like <foo>, you should check out <bar>".

Hit me with your best shots, folks!

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

OK, you like Aubrey and Maturin, you like good SF... I could make you a David Weber Honorverse CD; it has all ten main-arc Honor Harrington books on it, four volumes of short stories, a couple of other full novels, and... some Echo's Children filk! (In handy MP3 format....)

You can also get the Eric Flint 1632 stuff in e-book format... have I told you about that yet? (take a small town of Virginia coal miners from the year 2000, drop'em in the middle of Germany during the Thirty Years War, and see what happens. If you find you like it, you can participate in the story arc... the last volume I read had a whole BUNCH of stuff from otherwise unknown authors...)

If you like Seven Nations, check out Emerald Rose. Back-east band that does a lot of stuff like 7N... they rock. Oh, and Tricky Pixie (http://www.trickypixie.com/)!!! "The Faeries are All Out of Bubblegum"...

[annathepiper]

I have heard tell of both Weber and Flint, but have yet to tackle either. Better not hit me with the whole pile of Weber, that might overwhelm my handheld. ;) I'll see what I can find on the ebook sites I've been looking at.

Echo's Children--ah yes. Now if you'd like to share some of that, I'd be interested in a sampler. And I'm definitely interested in Tricky Pixie, but is there any Tricky Pixie to be had for purchase yet?

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I'll talk to cflute about EC stuff... and there isn't Tricky Pixie to be had *yet*, but by the time you leave there will be, since they're due to release a live album at FaerieWorlds, which is sometime in July, and Worldcon isn't until the end of August... and s00j has some of her solo stuff on sale alreddie.

I need to sit down and do a sampler for a *lot* of folks... one of these days *sigh*

[annathepiper]

Thanks! I'll keep a look out for the live Tricky Pixie album. :)