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So I'm going to be out of town for two weeks starting this Friday. I need recs! Music recs and book recs.

As far as music goes, in general I go for pop & rock. But I've found songs I like in all genres.

As far as books go- plot, please? I like scifi, fantasy, mystery... anything that's not just romance. Unless it's a gay romance! /biased like woah

Rec, pleease!

And does anyone happen to know about how many characters/words will fit into an entry? Cowboys fic goes up tommorow, omg!! It is at the moment ~28,000 words, so yeah. :D I'm so excited!!

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Hmmm, well I've been on a total Rammstein kick lately so I won't be very helpful for music recs LMAO But Rammstein FTW! WOO!

But for books, My Name is Red is really good! I suppose it's mystery, but it's told by many different and varying narrators including, the color red and a tree! I really liked it, so...

Hmm... music recs? Probably Rufus Wainwright, Missy Higgins, Rob Thomas, Amy Macdonald and John Barrowman. I listen to them almost all the time lately ^^

As for the books... I think Josh Lanyon's "Adrien English Mysteries", it's weird corossover between detective genre and romance, but gay romance XD
Also, I like Patricia Briggs' fantasy books ^^

Music
bands - Blue October, Garbage, Switchfoot, Good With Grenades
songs - Secret by One Republic, Let Down by Dead by Sunrise, & Bruises and Bitemarks by Good With Grenades

Reading
Book - I am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki. ♥
Manhwa (Korean BL) - Let Dai. <---THIS IS A MUST READ. Not like other smutty, fluffy BL stuff at all. You'll love it, or money back guaranteed. <3 You can read it here or you can download it from mangatraders.com :)

Have fun~

Music - Vampire Weekend, Florence and the Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Miike Snow, Jack Penate.

Books:

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
I haven't actually read this yet, but it's been recommended to me by several people. It's the first book in a mystery/thriller series and is, I'm told a pretty easy (though long) read. Most of my friends who've read it couldn't put it down until they were finished.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Won the Pulitzer a few years back and is by far one of the best books I've ever read. A fake autobiography of a hermaphrodite that is hilarious and not emo at all (which was what I was expecting when I heard what it was about). It's about love (there is some romance, but it's a person telling the story of his parents and grandparents), the immigrant experience in America, sex and god knows what else. Amazing book, and pretty easy to read.

ETA: Oh, and don't let the fact that Middlesex is an Oprah book turn you off of it. I avoided it for ages because of that and totally regretted it afterwards D:

Have a good trip!! ♥

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oh, have fun!
I',m bad with recs, but I love Anne Rice's vampire chronicles, ~~biased lol~~ so that? XD

Oh, as foor books, I only have one <3 Extreamly loud and increadably close - my fav, just, if you see it, open it and read the first page - it's all love from the first word.

music, you say rock/pop so, People in Planes, The Temper Trap... or, if you havn't already, DL the mixes that electrimafried have posted ^^

http://electrimafried.livejournal.com/tag/bleachmix

You already have so many good recs here I agree with that I can't really offer any extra. But as far as words go, I've posted a 13,000 word fic without much trouble, but when I was posting the first three chapters of Scar Tissue on my LJ together (which amounted to a little bit over 28,000) my LJ threw up and died, so, you might have to split it up if it won't go?

Book recs, huh? Well, have you ever read Asimov's 'The Gods Themselves'? It is good, solid old-school sci-fi, and it has a gay romance :D Well, not exactly gay, because aliens in question have three genders, but they are referred to as male, so... I was totally shocked when I read it for the first time - zomg, male aliens doing it O__O I was only 15 at the time, so yeah :DDD But there is an awesome female character too (well, as much as it can be called female, anyway).

Music recs:

I'm currently loving the Swedish band Kent which sounds like this and this

Or if you are more into easy listening sort of music, there is the Korean Clazziquai Project that sounds like this and this

Have a great time on your trip! :)

Music: Kaiser Chiefs, Moody Blues. Those are the two that come to mind right now that are at least near the two genres you mentioned ^^;;

Word limit: 65,535 bytes in size which in my experience is maximum of 9,000 words (depending on how much html formatting you have etc).

I hope you have a good trip!!

Music recs: Train (especially the "My Private Nation" album), Hatsune Miku, Imogen Heap, Tori Amos, Moby, Panic! At The Disco.

Book recs: Airborn and Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel. (I'm on a steampunk kick XD)

I was about to rec Havemercy for gay romance and then remembered that you've read it already :D

Rae. RAE.

HARRY POTTER.

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