Wow, my editor just told me that William Sleator died.
How bizarre, I'd never heard of him, but I'm currently reading House of Stairs for my Disturbing Dystopias book salon.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
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."
megan walker - Aug 03, 2011 12:37:17 pm PDT #15847 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Amy - Aug 03, 2011 12:39:53 pm PDT #15848 of 28342
Because books.
Oh, I loved House of Stairs! I read it in eighth grade and forgot only the title -- it was actually here someone helped me remember it. That's a shame.
Kate P. - Aug 03, 2011 12:41:58 pm PDT #15849 of 28342
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, House of Stairs was another favorite of mine, and Interstellar Pig too. megan, what do you think of the book so far?
Polter-Cow - Aug 03, 2011 12:47:09 pm PDT #15850 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Interstellar Pig was great, and I really dug Others See Us and Singularity and, I think, Strange Attractors. I'm pretty sure that's where I first learned about tachyons.
megan walker - Aug 03, 2011 12:55:27 pm PDT #15851 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I like it, but there's what I presume is a spoiler on the back cover that I wish I hadn't seen. I'm a little over halfway into it.
Polter-Cow - Aug 03, 2011 1:02:06 pm PDT #15852 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frickin' back covers! I try to avoid reading them if I know I'm going to read the book.
I'm still annoyed that the jacket blurb for The Lovely Bones spoiled THE CLIMAX OF THE BOOK.
Toddson - Aug 03, 2011 1:02:44 pm PDT #15853 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
G.K. Chesterton wrote a poem about how everything is on the back of the cover.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 04, 2011 4:11:04 am PDT #15854 of 28342
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
House of Stairs was great. It definitely had a big impact on me as a kid, especially in the area of "the authorities may not have your best interests at heart".
hippocampus - Aug 04, 2011 5:20:42 pm PDT #15855 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
Has anyone toyed with The Mongoliad? They're up to 30-some chapters (if I read the TOC right) - that's a lot of catching up.
Consuela - Aug 04, 2011 8:30:45 pm PDT #15856 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Has anyone toyed with The Mongoliad?
I remember hearing about it before it started, but nothing since. Is it any good?