I've forced myself to take a break between books 2 and 3 ... besides, I decided Mockingjay wasn't something I wanted to read over Thanksgiving.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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."
Toddson - Nov 30, 2010 9:19:39 am PST #13031 of 28279
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Jesse - Nov 30, 2010 9:21:23 am PST #13032 of 28279
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh! So I was complaining about the Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Next the other day (in Natter, I guess), and the good news is, 100+ pages in, stuff finally started happening. But not before several different history lessons!
lisah - Nov 30, 2010 11:50:49 am PST #13033 of 28279
Punishingly Intricate
So I was complaining about the Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Next the other day (in Natter, I guess), and the good news is, 100+ pages in, stuff finally started happening. But not before several different history lessons!
Man, did he ever need an editor with a firmer hand. So much extra blah blah blah in those books.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2010 11:57:05 am PST #13034 of 28279
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Man, did he ever need an editor with a firmer hand.
He was dead before they were published so he wasn't really there to work on edits. I think they just took a flier and decided to run them as is.
Though he was very stubborn, and a long time established journalist so he might've resisted changes anyway.
lisah - Nov 30, 2010 12:07:51 pm PST #13035 of 28279
Punishingly Intricate
Though he was very stubborn, and a long time established journalist so he might've resisted changes anyway.
Yeah, I think this would probably have been the case.
erin_obscure - Dec 01, 2010 7:04:09 am PST #13036 of 28279
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Excitement! I might be getting an e-reader for the winter holidays...i've been doing some research and am totally leaning towards the nook since my library supports it and i *heart* my library. Has anyone used the sharing feature?
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2010 1:00:45 pm PST #13037 of 28279
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A Fire Upon The Deep getting a sequel. A year from now. I don't want to know this far in advance!
Erin, do you mean the lending feature? Yes, indeedy. That's how I read Mockingbird, and I've lent as well. Which reminds me--I need to send tiggy my contact info, once I remember which email I'm set up with.
-t - Dec 01, 2010 1:06:47 pm PST #13038 of 28279
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
October's less than a year from now! But still too long.
I always think of A Deepness in the Sky as being a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep. I don't know why, it clearly isn't, but it fits into that space in my head, somehow.
hippocampus - Dec 01, 2010 3:37:18 pm PST #13039 of 28279
not your mom's socks.
I always think of A Deepness in the Sky as being a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep. I don't know why, it clearly isn't, but it fits into that space in my head, somehow.
I am -t in this matter.
erin_obscure - Dec 01, 2010 3:46:03 pm PST #13040 of 28279
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
ita- yes indeedy, the lending feature. you you have to be within a certain range like with pda's or anywhere with wifi connectivity?