Thanks to IO9's pointing it out and Jessica's enthusiastic endorsement I am now reading Charles Stoss' Glasshouse.
I'm just getting started but it's (a) fascinating; (b) has a lot of resonance with Dollhouse (so far).
Thanks, Jess!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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."
DavidS - Jan 25, 2010 7:46:14 pm PST #10810 of 28520
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erin_obscure - Jan 25, 2010 7:56:51 pm PST #10811 of 28520
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Dang, i just searched my library catalogue for _Soulless_ and there is but one title hit, which is about Anne Coulter. Ouch. Do not want.
Erin, i felt the same way about the ending of that book. She really should have written the third book.
meara - Jan 26, 2010 7:26:39 am PST #10812 of 28520
I read Glasshouse also, thanks to io9 and the library. I was all "science fiction and genderfuck, how could I not love it?" and parts of it I did, but other parts I more just wanted to smack the characters for being dumbasses.
Katerina Bee - Jan 26, 2010 3:42:16 pm PST #10813 of 28520
Herding cats for fun
I just lent my copy of "Parable of the Sower" to a junior college student next door. I eagerly await his thoughts about it all, because... I really cannot remember anything about the plot. Isn't that sad? All my other OEB books, yes: little bits of memory cling to their covers and remind me what I found between them. I so look forward to talking with anyone who's read some Butler.
I thought her last book would have been better if she'd lived long enough to do one last polishing of her prose, but the publisher released what she'd written anyway.
DebetEsse - Jan 26, 2010 4:11:11 pm PST #10814 of 28520
Woe to the fucking wicked.
By chance, is anyone reading Shades of Grey, the new Jasper Fforde?
erin_obscure - Jan 26, 2010 8:50:08 pm PST #10815 of 28520
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Want! (but no, have not yet read it.)
Polter-Cow - Jan 26, 2010 10:16:47 pm PST #10816 of 28520
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finished my Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z double-feature. Two undead thumbs up!
erin_obscure - Jan 27, 2010 3:29:53 am PST #10817 of 28520
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Ugh, i just finished _The Vampire Diaries_. Ugh. Can i say ugh enough? I mean, i was expectecting trash but it truly went above and beyond in the final book. Angels, Malachs and Kitsunes in a wild jumble of non-sensicle-ness, like the author did some research and just tossed in handfuls of "other" for shits and giggles. Beyond unfulfilling.
Rayne - Jan 27, 2010 5:30:54 am PST #10818 of 28520
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Oh yeah, the newest Vampire Diaries book is godawful! I've never actually flinched at wording in a book before, but when Stephan called Elena "lovey love" that's exactly what I did. I will definitely not be continuing with *that* series!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 27, 2010 7:50:12 am PST #10819 of 28520
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Those words should never be uttered except by Thurston Howell III.