Jasmine ,'Power Play'
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."
Although I DID have a female student who went on a 5 minutes, profanity-filled diatribe full of insightful character analysis about a character in "The Poisonwood Bible" which, curse words or no, was one of the most thoughtful pieces of student analysis I'd ever heard, and I said nary a word to her.
I really wish I had heard that too. Which character was she raging on?
The Winds of War chapter that GRRM read at Worldcon belongs to Arianne Martell.
Whoops, wrong thread! Sorry, moving to Bitches.
I get so tired of sitting someplace - often the bus or the subway - and someone's talking and the ONLY adverb or adjective they seem to know is the one Ms. Le Guin cited. sigh.
We were on the BART - and there was a young man on the phone and almost every other word out of his mouth was some version of the word fuck. At first he was annoying, but then it got really funny - because I realized he sounded like the obscene version of a smurf - it was really hard not to laugh out loud.
Smonster, so FUCKING HAPPY for you.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
OK, I skipped a TON, because I wanted to read the NPR list first, and then read over Buffista commentary slowly while not distracted. But then I skipped to the horror part, and then I just got all flappy-hands about everything.
I love books.
Whitley Streiber? (Did anybody read The Hunger? He also wrote The Howling, so he's got as much claim to being King of 70s Horror as anybody, unless you concede the whole decade to Anne Rice for Interview With a Vampire.)
So, I met him. At the 50th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash. He's apparently a Celebrity in UFO circles, since Communion was ostensibly non-fiction. Anyway, he'd made appearances and was signing copies and stuff all day, I guess, and I ended up sitting next to him at the VIP bash that evening. I introduced myself, he introduced himself, and I enthused, rather loudly, "Oh, I LOOOOVED Wolfen ! And The Hunger! "
He picked up his plate and moved away.
Rice krispies:
Though it really shouldn't be that obscure. Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance are grandmasters of the genre
Yeah, I mean, the whole magic system in D&D is based on Vance's magic system.
He picked up his plate and moved away.
Oops. Would he have rather you said you hated them?
Has anyone here read anything by China Mieville? I just started The Scar and I'm loving it!
I didn't love Perdido St Station, but I liked it enough to add The City and The City to my TBR pile.
I didn't love Perdido St Station, but I liked it enough to add The City and The City to my TBR pile.
Perdido St Station is apparently the first novel that takes place in the same world that Scar takes place in. The third novel set there is Iron Council but apparently you don't have to read them in order. Which is good, because Scar is the one I found at the used bookstore.