'Hell Bound'
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."
Every time you guys mention the parasol I go right to a Mary Poppins place. Which isn't a bad thing!
Is anyone else reading the Melissa Marr faerie books? I know (I think) I've asked before, but I'm really loving them. They're a lot more unflinching and less frothy than I expected, and I'm thrilled. The second one, especially, hit some dark places.
Honestly, I don't dislike Gaiman, but I haven't felt the urge to read anything he's done since Coraline. It might just be that I OD'd; there are a couple of writers who I was quite into for a while, but it started to feel like an obligation rather than genuine enjoyment. (I had the same experience with Jonathan Carroll. Maybe it's contemporary fantasy in general that I got tired of.)
You wanted steampunk, you got steampunk (you wanted an end to mashups? You don't got it): Android Karenina.
Guess no one noticed when I posted that last week.
I wouldn't say no one, just... not ita.
And, to be fair, not me either. But that's because I ignore EVERYTHING you say, whereas she may just not have been reading.
(er. sarcasm. right? On the internets no one can hear you use a wry tone of voice.)
I skim at work. I apologise for the oversight.
Interesting move by Amazon. I wonder if this will lead to less expensive e-books. Seems like it should.
Amazon Unveils 70 Percent Kindle Royalty Plan
I can't recall if anyone else has read Octavia Butler, but I know ita has... So.
I read "Parable of the Talents" last night.
Is it just me, or is the ending one hot, tasked-on mess? It's like, two books of detail and world-building and character-building, and then 3 pages of "...and in the next 40 years, all the shit that I've been building up to happened. Then she died. Kthxbye!"
It was...an incredible letdown. She does all this thought different POV, enough that towards the last 20 pages,I thought "Oh, there must be a third book to deal with all of the stuff that's been building up in this book, with the daughter and Olamina and the uncle."
And then, 3 pages of...non-resolution.
TACKED. ON.
I was very disappointed.
Erin, I think she had originally intended to do a third, Parable of the Trickster. She's mentioned it in some interviews even. Not that it makes the letdown any less jarring.
I don't remember a letdown like that. I should reread it anyway.