Smonster, so FUCKING HAPPY for you.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
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."
javachik - Aug 18, 2011 7:46:01 pm PDT #16103 of 28289
Our wings are not tired.
Volans - Aug 19, 2011 3:46:30 pm PDT #16104 of 28289
move out and draw fire
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.
Volans - Aug 19, 2011 3:50:45 pm PDT #16105 of 28289
move out and draw fire
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.
sj - Aug 19, 2011 4:10:27 pm PDT #16106 of 28289
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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!
Jessica - Aug 19, 2011 4:16:25 pm PDT #16107 of 28289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I didn't love Perdido St Station, but I liked it enough to add The City and The City to my TBR pile.
sj - Aug 19, 2011 4:29:11 pm PDT #16108 of 28289
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Polter-Cow - Aug 19, 2011 5:06:30 pm PDT #16109 of 28289
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Has anyone here read anything by China Mieville? I just started The Scar and I'm loving it!
I did love Perdido Street Station. I haven't read any Mieville since, but I've been wanting to.
Steph L. - Aug 19, 2011 5:10:50 pm PDT #16110 of 28289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Doesn't Mieville have a new-ish one that's octopus-related? (That's seriously all I know about it. I wanted to read it and promptly forgot the title, although I could google "Mieville + octopus." But that scares me.)
Oh. Squid, not octopus. Kraken: [link]
hippocampus - Aug 20, 2011 1:40:46 am PDT #16111 of 28289
not your mom's socks.
I have all the Mieville. The short stories, Looking for Jake, which I love. Perdido, the Scar, and Iron Council - I think the Scar started off as my favorite and Iron Council became my favorite. The City and The City is like Italo Calvino meets Milorad Pavic. Kraken - love, but he starts off very Charles Stross. And the latest one, Embassytown. Ahem. Bit of a fan, yes. He's far from a perfect writer, but I like his spicy brain. Especially when he's not pointing out how spicy his brain is.
The world of The Scar is mind-searingly fierce and crazy-beautiful.
sj - Aug 20, 2011 4:53:01 am PDT #16112 of 28289
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The world of The Scar is mind-searingly fierce and crazy-beautiful.
Yes, that's a great description.