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I miss the smell of old paper books...now is mostly plastic or something...

Ashu wrote:I miss the smell of old paper books...now is mostly plastic or something...

I don't know what they're selling over there, but I buy my stories in paper. Nothing like the smell and feel of books.

He means the kinds of paper (I assume).....modern books often use a sort of laminate paper (esp. the academic books I buy, the pages have a gloss on them) - whereas much older books (and still modern cheaper books) use a different style of page that deteriorates much quicker but gives a great smell of age about them......at least this is what I've found anyway.....

As for series:
Robert Jordan
Terry Brook
J V Jones
Robin Hobb
Trudi Canavan
David Eddings

Anything by them is generally pretty good fantasy writings

RepliMagni wrote:He means the kinds of paper (I assume).....modern books often use a sort of laminate paper (esp. the academic books I buy, the pages have a gloss on them) - whereas much older books (and still modern cheaper books) use a different style of page that deteriorates much quicker but gives a great smell of age about them......at least this is what I've found anyway.....

Ahhh, yes...textbooks. I refuse to put textbooks anywhere near my library of books. There is very little association between the two in my mind.

Its actually the difference in composition. New(er) books use plastic paper, non-recyclable additive plastic that looks good but smells like rubber. You can even smell the inc on the old ones.

little to beat good old books of homemade ink used on properly tanned human skin...

oh, wait... human skin is horrible at holding ink... anyone care to guess where that bit of knowledge is from?

Zeratul wrote:little to beat good old books of homemade ink used on properly tanned human skin...

oh, wait... human skin is horrible at holding ink... anyone care to guess where that bit of knowledge is from?

I haven't a clue but would be intrested to know, i know that there are alot of books bound in human skin and if you deal in Antique books your bound(No pun intended) to have come across 1 and that a few people that have been sent to there death in the past have consented to an author that they can have there skin to bind there book together once there dead, Not sure if this still happens tho. ~T~

bound in human skin is one thing... thats probably workable...

written on human skin is another...

it was in a book by David Eddings... cant remember exactly which one, but was most likely in one of the books of the belgalariad... (if not there, then in the malloreon)

The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett.

Particularly the City Watch novels, which are extremely funny.

Z for Zachariah

Im not a big reader, but picked this up from my cousin when I was younger and read it cover to cover in two evenings.

how many pages?

"The Stranger Beside Me" Ann Rule True Crime about Ted Bundy Serial Killer

MEZZANINE wrote:Z for Zachariah

Im not a big reader, but picked this up from my cousin when I was younger and read it cover to cover in two evenings.

Zeratul wrote:how many pages?

Cant remember, but it was only a paperback, I'll have to dig it out and see if it's still as good as I remember, things you read or see at 15 dont always seem so good at 34 lol

fair enough... and very true... things excellent when young, are often mediocre at best when slightly older...

Sun Tzu - The Art of War. (I am reading now)
The similerian
The lord of the rings