Suela, I felt very much as I expect you'd feel about Willis's new duology. (And it's more like 1,000 pages -- maybe more!) Way too much of the plot, and too many of the individual scenes, hang on a missed connection or communication gone awry, and in the second book, I nearly lost it when a character from 2060 has to go back to the 1970s to read archived newspapers. Do internet archives no longer exist in 2060??? There were definitely things I liked about it, but I felt like it was a 400-page book screaming to be freed from the 600 pages of unnecessary interior monologues and narrative trickery surrounding it.
I would be there right now.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Kate P. - Dec 05, 2010 5:43:49 am PST #13077 of 28275
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kat - Dec 05, 2010 6:28:01 am PST #13078 of 28275
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Has anyone read Jennifer Crusie's new book?
sumi - Dec 05, 2010 7:40:37 am PST #13079 of 28275
Art Crawl!!!
Maybe this time? I did - I enjoyed it.
ION, I got Victory of Eagles from the bmoc2 which is owned by the same people who own the Science Fiction Book Club and it came with a poster of Temeraire and the fleet. (Its this one). I like it.
sj - Dec 05, 2010 7:44:46 am PST #13080 of 28275
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone read Jennifer Crusie's new book?
Maybe this time? I did - I enjoyed it.
I loved it. I read it all in one day because I couldn't put it down, but it is a little different from her other novels in that there is a supernatural element.
Polter-Cow - Dec 05, 2010 8:08:27 am PST #13081 of 28275
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Started Catching Fire. Aaah! Katniss is so fucked! District 12 is so fucked! THEY ARE ALL SO FUCKED!
Consuela - Dec 05, 2010 9:09:50 am PST #13082 of 28275
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
sumi, that's a beautiful poster! My copy of VoE is the US edition, and the art isn't nearly that nice. Still a good read, though: I liked it much better than Tongues of Serpents.
sumi - Dec 05, 2010 9:10:15 am PST #13083 of 28275
Art Crawl!!!
Kat, Crusie has the first chapter of Maybe This Time up on her website.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2010 12:36:54 pm PST #13084 of 28275
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I threw Passage across the room so hard it practically dented the wall, but I had fun with Blackout/All Clear. Maybe because it at least kept moving along fast enough that there wasn't time for me to get seriously annoyed with it.
Ginger - Dec 05, 2010 1:01:24 pm PST #13085 of 28275
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked Maybe This Time, but Crusie is also someone I really like who is starting to repeat various tics and plotlines.
I just thought Passage was depressing, but I really liked Blackout/All Clear, particularly since there turns out to be a reason for all the missed connections. In was an unabashed paean to the courage of ordinary people during the war, but I have a strong sentimental streak about that kind of heroism. Also, I was charmed by the possibility that they were fixing something Mr. Dunwoody had done.
meara - Dec 05, 2010 1:28:09 pm PST #13086 of 28275
I enjoyed Blackout/All Clear, but definitely agree with (Suela?) whoever said it could've been seriously cut down. Mostly, more than the missed connections I just thought it was overly complicated, with so many people having all these different names, and so on. And of course then you're trying to make connections even where there aren't, because there are so many. (I know from reviews that I"m not the only person who thought that surely the actor guy and Colin were related somehow )