Recommendations for Lynn

BOOKS

By Neil Gaimen

• American Gods
• Neverwhere
• Good Omens with Terry Pratchett

Cyber genre

• Neuromancer The William Gibson book that started it all.
• The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson's Victorian cyberpunk
• Snow Crash Neal Stephenson's 1st book.
• True Names Novella and essays on the cyber world

By Terry Pratchett

• The Colour of Magic (Diskworld #1)
• The Light Fantastic (Diskworld #2)
• Equal Rites (#3)
• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents His new book for kids 9-12.

Other Sci-fi/Fantasy

• The Snow Queen
• The Summer Queen Sequel, not quite as good.
• The Madness Season Amazing 1st novel.
• In Conquest Born More excellence.
• Black Sun Rising (Coldfire #1) Even more excellence. (Can you tell I like the author?)
• When True Night Falls (Coldfire #2)
• Crown of Shadows (Coldfire #3)

MOVIES

American

• Austin Powers Spoof of 60's spy genre.
• Galaxy Quest Sci-fi fun about pseudo Star Trek show.
• The Princess Bride Intrigue, revenge, pirates, swordfighting, witty dialog and all around silliness.
• Murder by Death All-star murder mystery spoof. I remember Dad laughing hysterically in the theater.
• Titus Visually lush, dark and disturbing.
• Jeffrey Funny look at gay life in early 90s NYC.
• Auntie Mame Classic comedy.
• My Favorite Year Zany, delightful, brilliant movie with Peter O'Toole. (One of 5 versions listed.)
• How to Steal a Million Possibly my favorite, Audrey Hepburn & Peter O'Toole.
• Final Fantasy Computer anime, more Japanese story than Hollywood.

Japanese

• Princess Mononoke Epic, mythic, nature vs. man anime.
• Akira The movie that sparked the current anime craze. Beautiful images and soundtrack.
• Grave of the Fireflies Sad anti-war anime.
• Twilight of the Cockroaches This and Joe's Apartment changed the way I looked at my numerous NYC roomates.
• Ran Kurosawa's King Lear.

Chinese

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Wedding Banquet Same Director as Crouching Tiger.
• The Joy Luck Club (and the book) Story of 4 Chinese women and their daughters in America.
• Raise the Red Lantern Chinese 4th wife in 1920s.

French

• The Dreamlife of Angels

Australian

• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Drag Queens lip-sync ABBA in the Outback. No, really.
• Muriel's Wedding Film really starts when it would have ended in America.
• Strictly Ballroom Feel good quirky humor and good dancing.
• Breaker Morant Unlike the above 3, not humorous at all. Scapegoats in the Boer War.
• A Town Like Alice 3 tape mini-series I watched religiously when it first aired.