Time for some thrilling heroics.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


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."


Volans - Jun 09, 2011 7:32:04 am PDT #15197 of 28282
move out and draw fire

Still, I kind of loved the second twist

OK. I stopped at the first Reveal, because I couldn't read anymore what with my eyes rolling like that. So I'll pick it back up and try again.

My other problem with Embassytown is not liking the POV character. I guess that's going around.

ETA: P-C's whitefont: I was going to ask you, b/c of the name and all. Tell him nice work.


hippocampus - Jun 09, 2011 8:07:10 am PDT #15198 of 28282
not your mom's socks.

My other problem with Embassytown is not liking the POV character. I guess that's going around.

Yah. She's not extremely compelling. She does, in the end, do things, though, which I got to before my eyes flipped out (not the way yours did... at least I think. Hmm. Suspicious.).

I'm trying to think whether this is his first female narrator since Bellis?


Toddson - Jun 09, 2011 8:12:34 am PDT #15199 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

For Blackout, please tell me she doesn't do the clone = adult version of person complete with memories .


Amy - Jun 09, 2011 8:15:02 am PDT #15200 of 28282
Because books.

I haven't started Feed yet, but I am a little bummed the guy in the BEA line made me choose. I wanted to take both that and Deadline!

I think Ben might read Feed before I get to it, though, since I'm entangled in the Martin books.


Polter-Cow - Jun 09, 2011 8:22:13 am PDT #15201 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

For Blackout, please tell me she doesn't do the

Spoilers! You have the last chapter to go on. Speculate as you will. All I'll say is that what she does is interesting and I dig it, even though I wasn't sure about it at first.

I haven't started Feed yet, but I am a little bummed the guy in the BEA line made me choose. I wanted to take both that and Deadline!

Well, you wouldn't have wanted Deadline without Feed ! That's not really a CHOICE. Come on, BEA guy.


Toddson - Jun 09, 2011 8:23:26 am PDT #15202 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Yes, I know - that's why I whitefonted it, silly.

I'm just hoping that she doesn't do that - it's one of my minor peeves.


-t - Jun 09, 2011 8:36:16 am PDT #15203 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm currently reading Connie Willis' Blackout and skimming this conversation is confusing. But I figured it out.


sumi - Jun 09, 2011 8:56:44 am PDT #15204 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!

An excerpt from the audiobook of A Dance with Dragons is up on the Random House site. (There is an excerpt from the ebook too - and it's a different chapter.)


Polter-Cow - Jun 09, 2011 10:14:10 pm PDT #15205 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Awesome, I'm in the Acknowledgments for Deadline too, even though I still didn't do shit! At least I'll earn my spot for Blackout.

Toddson, did you read the excerpt from Blackout ? It may address your question.


Toddson - Jun 10, 2011 4:18:21 am PDT #15206 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Actually, that's what led me to the question.