And there's an iPad in The Diamond Age.
Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Volans - May 14, 2010 9:25:26 am PDT #11454 of 28344
move out and draw fire
Ginger - May 14, 2010 9:29:13 am PDT #11455 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think I need to re-read Moby Dick. Maybe skipping the infodump parts.
I found I appreciated all the whales and whaling stuff much more the second and subsequent readings of Moby Dick. It's like swimming in a grand river of words.
I haven't tackled Anathem yet. There are times in my life when I don't feel up to tackling a doorstop book. I loved Snow Crash, but I should reread it after years online. It is the book in which Stephenson posits that the U.S. does four things better than the rest of the world: movies, music, software and high-speed pizza delivery.
Liese S. - May 14, 2010 6:58:31 pm PDT #11456 of 28344
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Is now a good time for me to pipe up with how much I hated Cryptonomicon? Hated. I threw it across the room, damaging its shiny, shiny cover. This is where you all gasp because it is shocking to damage a book. And
on purpose!
Awful! But I hated it that much. Finished it though, because I am a completist, if evidently something of a masochist.
Could not bear the race issues.
Kat - May 14, 2010 8:23:02 pm PDT #11457 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Everytime I see Anathem I have to remind myself that there is an extra A and it's not Anthem. No one should confuse Neal Stephenson and Ayn Rand.
Atropa - May 14, 2010 10:01:42 pm PDT #11458 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I love The Diamond Age, but then, everything about the Neo-Vickies would appeal to me.
Volans - May 15, 2010 1:28:26 pm PDT #11459 of 28344
move out and draw fire
Oh, I've thrown plenty of books across rooms.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 15, 2010 1:45:22 pm PDT #11460 of 28344
"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
Only its status as a library book protected The Atrocity Archives from similar treatment by me recently. My regret over all the years I remained unaware Charles Stross was writing Chthulhu Mythos stories? Vanished by 20 pages in.
Barb - May 15, 2010 1:50:34 pm PDT #11461 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
I've thrown a fair amount of books. Usually ones I receive for first round of RITA judging.
Kathy A - May 15, 2010 2:22:50 pm PDT #11462 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just bought The Atrocity Archives on the recommendation of a bookstore coworker. Is it that bad, Matt?
Jessica - May 15, 2010 2:56:41 pm PDT #11463 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just got a Charles Stross book from the library and got 100 pages in before I realized I'd read it before. (The Merchant's War, 4th in a series I enjoy just enough to borrow from the library. But obviously not very memorable book-to-book, since I thought this was a new one until I was almost halfway through!)