The Coming Plague is a great book about all the scary diseases and why we're poorly equipped to deal with them.
What Ginger said. TCP is amazingly scary, and all true.
I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.
Zoe ,'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."
Kathy A - May 21, 2011 4:32:43 am PDT #14828 of 28290
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Consuela - May 21, 2011 9:07:38 am PDT #14829 of 28290
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read The Hot Zone many years ago, when I was working for the Army, and was scheduled to do a site visit at Fort Detrick.
... when I learned the visit had been scheduled, I put down the book and didn't go back to it until after I'd been there. Because I wouldn't have been able to force myself through the gates if I knew too much about what went on there.
Oh, and don't read The Hot Zone over lunch, either.
So yes, I knew about Marburg.
Thanks for the links, I'll follow them up!
sumi - May 21, 2011 9:46:32 am PDT #14830 of 28290
Art Crawl!!!
GRRM on lj talking ADWD and TWOW. He mentions POV characters that will or won't be in ADWD.
Typo Boy - May 21, 2011 11:16:59 am PDT #14831 of 28290
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.
Maybe it because you first read Narnia when a child and Potter as an adult?
Maybe. But maybe it is because Lewis writes better prose and makes his world more convincing. The point of world building is not necessarily to have super-detailed layout of how economics and ecology and politics and everything happen in your world, thought that is one way to do it. It is to give the reader the impression that what they see if your world is a glimpse of a much bigger world where politics and economics and ecology are going on in ways they are not seeing. It is to give the illusion of a world, which need not be photorealistic or logically consistent. (Logical inconsistency is a flaw but not necessarily a fatal one, any more than a magician's patter has to be a marvel of logic and formal argument.) Lewis is , IMO, a better magician a better illustionist.
Amy - May 21, 2011 3:42:09 pm PDT #14832 of 28290
Because books.
Oh, I want this book bag so much. SO much.
Strix - May 22, 2011 7:01:58 am PDT #14833 of 28290
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Damn you have to MAKE it? I was totally going to ask for that for my birthday!
Awesomesauce!
BTW, Amy, I requested COLD KISS at my library and it's on order!
Toddson - May 23, 2011 5:59:12 am PDT #14834 of 28290
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
psst ... I spotted a copy of Deadline on the shelf at Books-A-Million yesterday.
Polter-Cow - May 23, 2011 6:04:13 am PDT #14835 of 28290
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I heard that somewhere else too! Tsk, tsk. That skews the sales numbers.
Oh, and since I know there are fans here: Mark has begun reading His Dark Materials.
Laga - May 23, 2011 6:32:28 am PDT #14836 of 28290
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm so confused. In his last Infinite Jest post he said he shouldn't go so long in between reviews but now he's picking up another series?
Polter-Cow - May 23, 2011 6:34:26 am PDT #14837 of 28290
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And after HDM, he's doing Lord of the Rings, and after that, he's doing Sandman !