Has anyone hear read Discovery of Witches?
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Kat - Jun 12, 2011 7:35:46 am PDT #15217 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Strix - Jun 12, 2011 7:48:00 am PDT #15218 of 28282
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I...did.
Kind of.
I was excited about it...but it did NOT grab me at all. I found it pretty damned boring, and I like academically-oriented fiction (a la The Secret History or Possession.)
It was derivative, but worse: boring. I made it halfway though, and stopped, which is a true rarity for me. Especially when I paid for a book.
YMMV, of course.
Gris - Jun 12, 2011 8:02:13 am PDT #15219 of 28282
Hey. New board.
My wife loved it. I, too, got bored after about 30 pages, but I often get bored by supernatural fantasy series these days (my phase of loving them is on hiatus, apparently) so I don't know why.
sj - Jun 12, 2011 8:06:56 am PDT #15220 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone hear read Discovery of Witches?
I read the kindle sample for it and really hated it.
sumi - Jun 12, 2011 9:58:39 am PDT #15221 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Two A Song of Ice and Fire questions (based on a thread from Westeros): If Edmure doesn't have a son - wouldn't the Blackfish be his heir? I think it is (currently) Edmure - Blackfish - Bran - Rickon - Lord Robert and then if no male heirs - Lysa, Sansa, Arya? Or possibly it goes off to a cadet branch. . . this has to do with Littlefinger's plans for Sansa - could they involve Riverrun as well as Winterfell? And secondly - could the tapestries that Littlefinger asks of Cersei be important for some reason?
Kat - Jun 12, 2011 10:57:05 am PDT #15222 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Interesting! I read it last night and really enjoyed it. The book took a while to start (like the Girl With a... Series) but it got better.
-t - Jun 12, 2011 4:16:55 pm PDT #15223 of 28282
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sumi, I can't really think clearly about that while my head is full of GoT, but what you said about succession sounds plausible. I don't remember what's up with the tapestries, but I wouldn't rule out anything being important.
Volans - Jun 13, 2011 6:46:50 am PDT #15224 of 28282
move out and draw fire
That's not how Shaun sounds in my head, but heh.
I realized last night that Shaun sounds like Sokka in my head. Georgia doesn't totally sound like Katara, but close.
Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2011 7:38:24 am PDT #15225 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha!
(Seanan said that the guy doesn't sound like Shaun at all too, so that's something.)
Frankenbuddha - Jun 13, 2011 10:57:22 am PDT #15226 of 28282
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I just got Simon Pegg's memior Nerd Do Well. Can't wait to dive in.