In re Feed/Deadline - have you heard about the two E. coli strains that seem to be hitting Europe ... anyone getting a bad feeling about this?
Now hold on, I'm gonna press the right pedal harder. I expect us to accelerate.
Anya ,'Showtime'
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 - Jun 02, 2011 4:55:37 am PDT #15029 of 28288
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hippocampus - Jun 02, 2011 5:22:50 am PDT #15030 of 28288
not your mom's socks.
I've got Feed, but can't read it yet - it's on a shiny screen and the sinus hell is making shiny screens bad news for my eyes. This? Is TORTURE.
And yeah, Toddson, I saw that yesterday.
Toddson - Jun 02, 2011 6:53:32 am PDT #15031 of 28288
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
heh ... Nora Roberts is funding a program to offer a minor in romance.
Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 12:10:24 pm PDT #15032 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So VS Naipaul thinks he's a better writer than any woman writer ever (including Jane Austen). And he's sure that he can tell if something's written by a woman within a paragraph.
So the Guardian came up with an online test: [link]
I failed it: it told me quite snarkily that I clearly need to read more books by men. *grins*
Strix - Jun 02, 2011 12:12:08 pm PDT #15033 of 28288
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read that earlier, and my eyes spun around faster than a teenage boy at a topless beach.
WTFEVER.
Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 12:13:16 pm PDT #15034 of 28288
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I wish to god someone would give him one of James Tiptree's stories. And not something obvious like "The Women Men Don't See". "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" might do.
Kathy A - Jun 02, 2011 12:21:50 pm PDT #15035 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I thought it was pretty obvious a woman had written "Houston, Houston," it's so rabidly anti-male.
Kathy A - Jun 02, 2011 12:22:31 pm PDT #15036 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Maybe "Shambleau" by CL Moore would be a good alternative.
Strix - Jun 02, 2011 12:23:39 pm PDT #15037 of 28288
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
One day, I will find a collected works of Moore. Shambleau is the only one of her shorts I've read and she's so interesting.
Kathy A - Jun 02, 2011 12:39:42 pm PDT #15038 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My prof in my feminist lit class (all SF/fantasy written by women) used The Best of C.L. Moore, edited by Lester Del Ray, for the two stories we read (Shambleau and Black God's Kiss). I spent the next ten years looking for that collection, and literally squealed in delight when I found it at a Friends of the Library book sale in Lake Zurich in the mid-90s.
There are two separate collections currently in print--Black God's Kiss has all the Jirel of Joiry stories, and Northwest of Earth has all the Northwest Smith stories.