21st Century Ghosts - Joe Hill discussion

This group has been sadly inactive lately, so I'm hoping that we can get things moving again 'round these parts!

To do that, I'm opening up a round of nominations. The theme for this round of nominations is for books that Joe Hill has recommended, or said that he enjoyed, etc.

These can be from anywhere - his blog, Twitter, books he rated highly on Goodreads, whatever floats your boat.

So to get the ball rolling, I'm going to nominate Joe's self-proclaimed favorite novel (found in his Jan 18th blog post), True Grit by Charles Portis.

So... Nominations are welcome... Please don't leave me hangin' here alone...


...please?

Hey, that's an interesting nomination.

I'll try to think of one equally interesting.

Ready Player One...he was tweeting a lot about it a little bit ago, maybe last week or so.

Oooh, good one!

Ooo good idea. I actually have both of those books on my TBR so I'm happy. And like usual I have nothing to nominate.

I've had Ready Player One on my TBR for a while...not sure about True Grit, i really liked the movie but i don't often read westerns. Be a new experience, take me out of my comfort zone.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

He mentioned this in his blog recently.

Kathy wrote: "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

He mentioned this in his blog recently."

Kathy- I'm not sure why but that link goes to a travel book about Oregon. I looked the story up on Amazon though, it looks interesting.

Heh..I guess it could qualify. If enough voted for it.

Oregon travel guide for the win!

Chris wrote: "Heh..I guess it could qualify. If enough voted for it.

Oregon travel guide for the win!"

if only we could come up with a way to tie it to the theme...too bad none Hill's books/stories take place in Oregon. None that I remember anyway.

I think some of Dean Koontz's books take place in Oregon. Or at least the Northwest US.

But Dean Koontz sucks.

Wait, I can't say that out loud, can I? *scratches it out*. There. Fixed.

Not sure i see the connection to Hill but i've never read Koontz so thanks for the warning.

There really isn't a connection to Hill. I was connecting the Oregon book. Right. So....

Keep the Hill favorites coming....

Ive read two books by Koontz. One I absolutely loved and nobody else did and the other was highly rated and I thought it was a slog. Who knows....

That's cause you're backwards. That's all.

So, the nominations so far are:

True Grit by Charles Portis
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

What else?

I'll have to go with Ready Player One.
Nostalgia? Well, I live in the 60s [and love it]
It's the author's debut - I like debuts [da butts too, FWIW]
Robots vs wizards? [what would LeGuin have to say about that?] My money is on the Mages.
Other universes? This is sounding better all the time.
AND - 'my' Library owns copies.
Me thinks my vote is for . . . the Oregon book, lol

kidding folks.
My vote is for Ready Player One

Umm.. OK.

Should I go ahead and set up the poll, or do we think more nominations might come in?

I'm thinking poll...

My vote is for Ready Player One

Rachel wrote: "Kathy wrote: "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

He mentioned this in his blog recently."

Kathy- I'm not sure why but that link goes to a travel book about Oregon. I looked the s..."

That's so wierd. I know that's not about Oregon. lol