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.
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
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."
Amy - Jun 09, 2011 8:15:02 am PDT #15200 of 28282
Because 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.
hippocampus - Jun 10, 2011 4:33:21 am PDT #15207 of 28282
not your mom's socks.
Ok! I finished Embassytown and I still liked it, but I think your eyes will roll a bit at the ending Raq. I loved the feeling I got that Language was a character, kind of like Gossip is in Middlemarch - which could be, as you said, something only a writer could love.
The protagonist seems to be speaking to everyone from inside a sealed container though. Things that should resonate don't. Except when they happen to people not the protagonist.
So, still thinking on it. I am too soft when it comes to Mieville.
Then I started Feed - which was a gear shift from E-town, obviously, but whoah what a great ride this is going to be.
Volans - Jun 10, 2011 5:32:16 am PDT #15208 of 28282
move out and draw fire
I'm planning The Quantum Thief next, but after that I'll probably mux back around to Embassytown.
Deadline got to me in at least one way; NPR had a bit on the rise of tropical diseases in Florida, and mentioned that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is proliferating there again...and I went into Left 4 Dead mode.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2011 6:16:39 am PDT #15209 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Actually, that's what led me to the question.
Oh. Well, I think it's pretty clear from that first chapter that she remembers everything to the point of her death.