I don't know if you'd like him or not, Jilli. I've been reading him since I was in high school and love him, but he's not for everyone.
This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Pix - Oct 28, 2009 8:20:56 pm PDT #10291 of 28372
The status is NOT quo.
beth b - Oct 28, 2009 8:41:40 pm PDT #10292 of 28372
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I've read earlier books, but they were so over the top for me. There are a bunch I still have waiting for me to read. And DH loves the water method man. I can't really even remember if I finished it
but then again I didn't love Tom Robbins until Skinny legs and all
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2009 8:44:03 pm PDT #10293 of 28372
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes-the way it turned out that there wasn't a single digression in the book really got me. I can get impatient when an author spends a lot of time on atmosphere. Unless they're really speaking my language, I'm all "I get that. Gimme plot."
I just finished a reread of A Fire Upon The Deep. The 'net postings were a bit that for me. I've read newsgroups. I understand the dynamics. But it's a brilliant book. Either the Tines or the concept of the Deep and the Beyond would have been enough for one book. Together they are great. Next up is A Deepness In The Sky.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 28, 2009 10:47:39 pm PDT #10294 of 28372
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I love the way it all came together so neatly in the end.
Yes! Perfectly wrapped up. I like that about many of Irving's books (I turn down all the pages that seem like they might be important - which ends up being most of the pages) - but Owen Meaney was just perfection in that regard.
And it made me cry at the end. A feat that few books have achieved. The Amber Spyglass is one other.
Jessica - Oct 29, 2009 3:55:16 am PDT #10295 of 28372
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And you'll remember that Jenny Garp had nonconsensual sex with Garp's father
Most of the time that's called rape.
Glamcookie - Oct 29, 2009 4:05:40 pm PDT #10296 of 28372
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
The Amber Spyglass is one other.
Bet I know the part because I totally lost it in that book, too.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2009 4:55:43 pm PDT #10297 of 28372
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Amber Spyglass is one other.
Bet I know the part because I totally lost it in that book, too.
That made me cry, too, despite myself!
As did The Sweet Far Thing (damn you, Libba Bray!) and Deathly Hallows (when Harry is going to his death and his parents, et al., show up and accompany him).
Polter-Cow - Oct 29, 2009 5:09:52 pm PDT #10298 of 28372
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Bet I know the part because I totally lost it in that book, too.
Wait, which part are we talking about?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 30, 2009 12:50:49 am PDT #10299 of 28372
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Wait, which part are we talking about?
About the last fifteen pages. My copy got decidedly damp.
flea - Oct 30, 2009 5:39:47 am PDT #10300 of 28372
information libertarian
I just reread The Railway Children last night, and this morning looked up E. Nesbit. Turns out she was a socialist who got married at 7 months pregnant (in 1880) and lived in an open marriage, raising her husband's two other children as her own. Whoa.