ok. if you ever get the chance to see Nancy Pearl, the author of
Book Lust
and
More Book Lust,
speak, GO. very entertaining. even if you are a really picky reader she 's got stuff for you. and Besides - she is the only Librarian I know , other than BatGirl, that has her own action figure.
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and the action figure
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Random nugget I stumbled upon that's old but perhaps not old news.
Anthony Minghella's rather excellent film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Play.
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Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, “Against the Day,” reads like the sort of imitation of a Thomas Pynchon novel that a dogged but ungainly fan of this author’s might have written on quaaludes. It is a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story, pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being illuminating, complicated without being rewardingly complex.
Review is by Michiko Kakutani, so adjust your rhetorical filters accordingly.
I just saw that Jack Williamson died [link] I had started to hope he was going to live forever. He was such a nice guy.
Does Terry Goodkind write good books? I mean, is there an overarching context that can make one excuse these snippets of evil chicken?
I have no idea where those quotes cam from . I adored the first few books.( at least the first two ) but while I read the ( 4th?) I wanted to throw it across the room. I was bored and frustrated. so I might have missed the parts about the chicken
Oh, I remember the evil chicken! I think it actually was in book one. I read the first 4 or 5 books, but then they just got terribly tedious and uninteresting, and I am a lover of the long series of books.
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet? (And she's going to write a new Vorkosigan novel!!!
Kate Elliott has a new book out too.
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet?
I'm sorry to say that I didn't like it that much. Not that I disliked it, exactly, it was just unsubstantial and not very original. I think that what I most missed in comparison to her other books was energy - there was a certain placidity to it, even during action.
I didn't like The Hallowed Hunt much either, which makes me nervous.
And she's going to write a new Vorkosigan novel!!!
FINALLY! I will get drunk right now celebrating this. Ehh, It's late, I'll celebrate tomorrow.