Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'
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."
I utterly adored, violently so, Mona Mayfair in Lasher, and was therefore crushed at how Taltos went so very wrong.
I'm wondering if I actually read Taltos or just bought it and remember it on the shelves. I do know I read Lasher and also loved Mona, so.
Hmmm. I might see if I can score some paperbacks at the used bookstore on Saturday. I love supernatural reads leading up to Halloween.
I don't think the vampires and the Mayfairs should have ever crossed paths.
ARgh, so true. So, so true.
Man, I can't remember Taltos either. Was that the one where the weird incest stuff became REALLY REALLY FUCKING WEIRD INCEST STUFF?
I got to this part of the description on Amazon:
Other plot elements involve renegade members of the secret order of Talamasca, who want to kidnap and crossbreed two taltoses; a 200-year-old taltos from New York named Ashlar, who is posing as a toy-industry magnate specializing in dolls; and a dwarf called Samuel from the witches' holy glen in Donnelaith, Scotland.
...and decided, yeah, I never actually read that one. No recollection of any of that.
I think Steven Brust's "Taltos" was much more believable.
Have any of the books you've re-read been visited by The Suck Fairy?
The Suck Fairy is an artefact of re-reading. If you read a book for the first time and it sucks, it’s nothing to do with her. It just sucks. Some books do. The Suck Fairy comes in when you come back to a book that you liked when you read it before, and on re-reading—well, it sucks
I think Steven Brust's "Taltos" was much more believable.
A better read, too.
Ok, here are my LendMe books. (xposted with Tech, from a chat there on B&N's LendMe program.)
Note: if you have a B&N account, but not a Nook, you can lend and read, too.
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games – ibid
Graceling – Kristin Cashore
Bonds of Justice – Nalini Singh
Archangel's Kiss - ibid
Bullet – Laurell K. Hamilton (I was weak.) Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey
Under Heaven – Guy Gavriel Kay
Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris
Dead and Gone - ibid
A Catch of Consequence – Diane Norman
A Murderous Procession – Ariana Franklin
Grave Goods – ibid
The Serpents's Tale – ibid
Mistress of the Art of Death – ibid
Bone Magic – Yasmine Galenorn
Demon Mistress – ibid
Thorn Queen – Richelle Mead
Succubus Shadows – ibid
Silver Borne – Patricia Briggs
Alien Taste – Wen Spencer
I have a B&N membership - but a Kindle.
My lendable book list is very short, since I get most of my books from the library, but anyone who wants is welcome to borrow them.
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire, (October Daye #3) (currently on loan)
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint (currently on loan)
Leave Me Breathless by Trista Ann Michaels (a truly terrible contemporary menage romance novella I wasn't able to read.)
My B&N email address is deena AT dlmfisher DOT com