Funny you're talking Joe Hill; I just picked up "Heart Shaped Box" at the local independent this afternoon.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
javachik - Oct 24, 2010 6:21:04 pm PDT #12747 of 28293
Our wings are not tired.
Ginger - Oct 27, 2010 5:01:02 pm PDT #12748 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
From Cherie Priest's blog [link]
OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.
If you’ve been heretofore unaware of my EGREGIOUS CRIMES against reason and scientific probability, but you too would like to criticize my technique when it comes to MAKING SHIT UP about the pretend undead … then boy, have I got a proposal for YOU!
Typo Boy - Oct 27, 2010 8:17:18 pm PDT #12749 of 28293
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.
Heh!
Toddson - Oct 28, 2010 1:32:23 pm PDT #12750 of 28293
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hello! I'm trying to catch up ... let me see ...
I was too old for the Sweet Valley High books, my sister was the horse-crazy one, but I ended up reading a lot of her horse books, I read Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins, the entire Oz series (or at least everything they had in the public library), my father had subscriptions to Galaxy, Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, plus all his books from after 1949 (the year everything went up in flames in a house fire).
In new news - I found the new Bujold book, scooped it up, and ran home and read it pretty much in the space of a day. I plan to go back and re-read it at leisure. Armsman Roic is an important part of the story and has some good lines.
Laga - Oct 28, 2010 1:46:52 pm PDT #12751 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I just brought home The Golden Compass but I haven't opened it yet. I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
-t - Oct 28, 2010 1:48:12 pm PDT #12752 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oooh, new Vorkosigan book? Yay!
Hil R. - Oct 28, 2010 1:53:16 pm PDT #12753 of 28293
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just brought home The Golden Compass but I haven't opened it yet. I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
I read it a few years ago, and a friend's daughter started reading it a few weeks after I did. The friend, who is Catholic, asked me if there was anything in there that she should be concerned about. I told her what the plot was up to the point where I'd read, and had her read one or two pages that I thought were particularly anti-Catholic. She said that was fine for her ten-year-old to read, though she was glad to be aware of it to be able to discuss it with her. I kept up with giving her warnings on stuff as I got to it, and though there were a few parts that she thought might be too scary, I don't think there was anything that actually hit the "I don't think I want my daughter reading that" limit until the third book.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2010 1:54:49 pm PDT #12754 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I bet I'm going to end up disappointed at how non-controversial it turns out to be.
I didn't really see what was so controversial about it.
I don't think there was anything that actually hit the "I don't think I want my daughter reading that" limit until the third book.
But, yeah, anything that would be is in the third book.
zuisa - Oct 29, 2010 2:58:28 am PDT #12755 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I have only read the first book (I have been meaning to get around to the next two, but I just haven't gotten a hold of them) and I definitely agree that the first book had nothing very controversial, but it is a really fantastic book.
sumi - Oct 29, 2010 4:30:26 am PDT #12756 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Interview with Rita Mae Brown - at the Chronicle of the Horse.