I have to write a haiku about King Dork, the book I'm currently reading, for my bookstore's blog's Friday review. All I know so far is that "Catcher in the Rye" will be the last line. probably. Trying to be clever on deadline makes my brain hurt!
Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?
'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
lisah - Oct 05, 2006 10:09:37 am PDT #1316 of 28144
Punishingly Intricate
-t - Oct 05, 2006 11:43:20 am PDT #1317 of 28144
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
American Gods seems like a good place to start reading Gaiman. It's the first in that universe, after all. I'm interested to hear what you think of it, Aimee.
I just read Anansi Boys (out in paperback, yay!) and listened to "Monarch of the Glen", and now I really want to go back and reread American Gods. My books need to unpack themselves and get catalogued so I can find it.
Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2006 12:41:17 pm PDT #1318 of 28144
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.
I love that even though American Gods and Anzai Boys are set in the same universe, they have completely different feels. (also mostly non-intersecting characters with very minor exceptions).
I mean I'd enjoy seeing Shadow again. But I'm glad to know that if Gaiman decides to explore this univerise a bit more, it won't just be the continuing adventures of Shadow, as he survives various gods acting like dicks.
Note, for Aimee and anyone else who has not finished AmGods, the white font is definitely a spoiler.
sj - Oct 05, 2006 1:02:41 pm PDT #1319 of 28144
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Typo Boy. I was looking at Neil Gaiman's new short story collection and there is a Shadow story in it.
Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2006 2:20:29 pm PDT #1320 of 28144
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.
Yeah - I saw it in "Fragile Things" and liked it. And you know it is fine with me if Gaiman continues to explore Shadow. That character sure as heck got a whole new set of issues to deal with in that short story. But I'm just glad that if he is going to continue to explore this universe that it is bigger than just a place for Shadow to have adventures. It is fine that one of the things we may see is Shadow's adventures - just glad that we can see important things happen with him completely offstage.
-t - Oct 05, 2006 2:47:56 pm PDT #1321 of 28144
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In the intro to "Monarch of the Glen" in the audiobook I heard it in (Legends something or other, I forget), Gaiman says that he thought of American Gods as a setting that he could explore many other characters with, and he hadn't planned on revisiting Shadow until he was approached to write the story for Legends whatchamacallit.
"Monarch" left me confused, I have to say. But that may be from listening to it rather than reading it, it's a more difficult medium for me to pay attention to.
brenda m - Oct 05, 2006 3:00:41 pm PDT #1322 of 28144
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"Monarch of the Glen"
Wait, isn't that a TV show? Confused.
-t - Oct 05, 2006 3:24:49 pm PDT #1323 of 28144
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Maybe it's both? Or maybe I got the title wrong, but I thought that was it. Also a painting of a stag, I think, so maybe bothe the short story and TV show are named for the painting?
sumi - Oct 05, 2006 3:27:14 pm PDT #1324 of 28144
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, I believe that the painting has been famous longer than either of those things.
Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2006 3:57:03 pm PDT #1325 of 28144
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.
Fragile consisted entire or almost entirely of things that had already been published elsewhere. He even turned his one-off comic "Harlequin" into a short story. [I did not much care for it in either version.]"Sunbird", an homage to R.A. Lafferty gets Lafferty's voice down almost perfectly. [Close enough for me to say he should have cut out the last sentence, but great none-the-less.]