Raq, I knew what you were talking about even before I hovered over your link
We're frequenting the same corners of the internets again!
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'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."
Volans - Aug 31, 2010 11:11:27 am PDT #12253 of 28333
move out and draw fire
Typo Boy - Aug 31, 2010 12:12:43 pm PDT #12254 of 28333
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
"Glimpses" is available online. A book I really loved when it first came out:
Here is the boing boing link which includes a decent description:
Here is the direct pdf link: [link]
Not sure that Cory is right when he says it has a rock n' roll attitude. The book, in spite of melodramatic seems, has a fair amount of quite meloncholy and understatement which I don't associate with a rock n' roll attitude (not that there are not classic rock n' roll songs which use those things, but not I think the core rock n' roll attitude.) But still this is a book to marvel at, and I think is truly in love with the music. I wonder if Hec ever read it, and if so what he thinks of it.
Polter-Cow - Aug 31, 2010 12:33:37 pm PDT #12255 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Buffistas, I have discovered your newest desire: Postertext.
Hang your favorite book on the wall with the book's text, arranged to depict a memorable scene from the book!
Atropa - Aug 31, 2010 1:15:50 pm PDT #12256 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Buffistas, I have discovered your newest desire: Postertext.
Ooooh. I bet they only are making public domain books, tho'. Otherwise I'd request a poster for Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Polter-Cow - Aug 31, 2010 9:02:09 pm PDT #12257 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Discworld fans, I finally finished reading the Watch books.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2010 11:46:51 am PDT #12258 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 posits a sci fi reading list for novices.
I'm much better at TV than I am at books, but I have read at least one book from each of their categories.
-t - Sep 01, 2010 12:06:56 pm PDT #12259 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've read a lot of those, but not all (not even all of one category). It's interesting to me that none of the books that I read in my Sci Fi Lit class in college are on it. Of course, that was over 20 years ago and was not meant as an intro to SF.
Kat - Sep 01, 2010 12:12:14 pm PDT #12260 of 28333
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I don't think of myself as a sci fi reader at all, and I've read at least one book per category except for space travel. Weird. Dystopians, one of my favorite subgenres, are not what I think of when I think of sci fi!
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2010 12:20:44 pm PDT #12261 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dystopians, one of my favorite subgenres, are not what I think of when I think of sci fi!
Well, all the dystopias they list but one I think are sci fi, because they involve advanced science in some way. Are alternate histories sci fi? I think that's up for debate. I'm pretty inclusive myself.
I do consider myself a sci fi reader. Space travel is my weakest category. I've read more than one book they list, but I don't remember them in any detail. I'm attached to at least one book in each of their others, pretty much.
-t - Sep 01, 2010 1:16:18 pm PDT #12262 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I explicitly include dystopias (and utopias) and alternate histories in sci fi, but I accept that not everyone would.
Space Travel is definitely my weakes category. I've only read Downbelow Station, and I only read that fairly recently. I find Doc Smith unreadable. I could have sworn I'd read The Sparrow but that plot summary is not familiar to me at all. I've only read a little Banks, and it didn't make me want to read more of his stuff, and it wasn't the book on the list. I don't think. I don't remember that well.
My other weakness is, surprisingly, Aliens. i love a good alien story, but I've only read one of those the short story. I've known for ages that I need to read Octavia Butler and the other novel sounds good, too. Which is why I like these lists, they give me things to look for (or remind me that I meant to look for something).