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.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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."
Kat - May 14, 2010 8:23:02 pm PDT #11457 of 28372
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Atropa - May 14, 2010 10:01:42 pm PDT #11458 of 28372
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 28372
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 28372
"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 28372
“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 28372
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 28372
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!)
meara - May 15, 2010 3:56:16 pm PDT #11464 of 28372
I've been reading that series too, Jessica, and am also unsure where I am in it--I bought the first few, and think I may have read one or two more in the library/bookstore, but am not sure.
Strega - May 15, 2010 9:11:48 pm PDT #11465 of 28372
I liked the Atrocity Archives, but The Jennifer Morgue was much funnier. Of course, I was much more familiar with the tropes in it.
I think I threw Callahan's Key after the third conversation about how gosh-darn perfect Jake is.
Volans - May 16, 2010 6:27:55 am PDT #11466 of 28372
move out and draw fire
I just modded my old Mariners jersey, put "Coleridge" on the back.
If only the A's colors included red, I'd mod that one with "Prynne."
Next up, get a Ravens jersey and add "Poe."