ION, oh, I love watching curmudgeonly authors tell people in what order they should read their (mostly non-related) books, and then get cranky when people tell them "But I really loved your first book!". There are times when I really believe that Caitlin R. Kiernan wants to grow up to be Harlan Ellison.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
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."
Atropa - Dec 01, 2011 3:45:41 pm PST #16964 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Consuela - Dec 01, 2011 3:46:35 pm PST #16965 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, Caitlin Kiernan. She's a great prose stylist, but ooooh, such a drama-generator.
Ginger - Dec 01, 2011 4:06:43 pm PST #16966 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are times when I really believe that Caitlin R. Kiernan wants to grow up to be Harlan Ellison.
To paraphrase a fannish response usually attributed to Robert Silverberg, "Shall we kill her now?"
Atropa - Dec 02, 2011 11:38:09 am PST #16967 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, Caitlin Kiernan. She's a great prose stylist, but ooooh, such a drama-generator.
Ahahahaha. Yes. Yes she is. Her loathing-filled rants about ebooks are kind of amazing.
Consuela - Dec 02, 2011 2:46:58 pm PST #16968 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Her loathing-filled rants about ebooks are kind of amazing
Seriously? Oh, dear.
I got to know her a bit during the Farscape campaign, because she's a big fan--she used to cosplay Chiana at con (dunno if she still does), but she got very spun up, and her agent recommended that she cool it. Which was wise, I suspect.
Atropa - Dec 02, 2011 2:59:24 pm PST #16969 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yeah, she is Very Against This New-Fangled Tech, because paper books are ... sacred? I'm not sure.
She doesn't cosplay Chiana any more, but I know she did a great job of it.
She's a wonderful person (I kinda-sorta know her), but she occasionally starts emulating Harlan in the ranting department.
sumi - Dec 02, 2011 6:27:57 pm PST #16970 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Would Fay's story be part of this collection?
smonster - Dec 03, 2011 5:13:44 am PST #16971 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
sumi, no. I have that book and by "tiny", they mean "one sentence." It's a delightful little book, but I don't believe Fay contributed.
Atropa - Dec 04, 2011 10:33:37 am PST #16972 of 28282
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Book and tattoo geekery! The next tattoo I'm getting is the memorial tattoo for my Mom. But I figured out the tattoo that comes *after* that one. I'm re-reading The Historian (I'm planning on doing a Nocturnal House post about it), and hit the section where they discover a family that is distantly descended from Vlad the Impaler, and that it is a family tradition to tattoo one child in each generation with a small image of the Tzepesh Dracul dragon, for protection.
You people see where I'm going with this, right? Because, hey, I really am a descendant (by way of a poor serving maid, but still!), and I'm a Dracula geek. Now I just have to decide where I'll have it done. I'm idly thinking of the front of my right shoulder.
le nubian - Dec 04, 2011 10:40:13 am PST #16973 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jilli,
a friend told me that I might like The Historian. Did you like it?