...or the woman leading her people through strength, force of personality, and a bit of guile
I love Martha Wells. And characters with "a bit of guile" are one of her specialties. Or a lot of guile.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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."
Typo Boy - Jan 04, 2012 10:33:30 am PST #17297 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ginger - Jan 04, 2012 10:47:26 am PST #17298 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
WHY CAN'T I DO THIS.
Because the minutiae of life are not very interesting?
t Not a Virginia Woolf fan
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:04:30 am PST #17299 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I guess this is why Pix suggested getting the annotated edition?
Ginger - Jan 04, 2012 11:12:43 am PST #17300 of 28282
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Is there a Classics comic book version?
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:21:17 am PST #17301 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Or wait, nevermind, that was for Lolita.
By the way, this is for my 2012 Readers' Choice challenge.
The final list is:
Crime and Punishment
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Lolita
(Vladimir Nabokov)
Midnight’s Children
(Salman Rushdie)
The Master and Margarita
(Mikhail Bulgakov)
Middlemarch
(George Eliot)
Never Let Me Go
(Kazuo Ishiguro)
Oryx and Crake
(Margaret Atwood)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
(John Irving)
The Sense of an Ending
(Julian Barnes)
The Thirteenth Tale
(Diane Setterfield)
To The Lighthouse
(Virginia Woolf)
War and Peace
(Leo Tolstoy)
lisah - Jan 04, 2012 11:23:34 am PST #17302 of 28282
Punishingly Intricate
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Oh yay! I saw this on your list but wasn't on a device I could type easily enough on to make a compelling argument for you to read it. I love that book!
megan walker - Jan 04, 2012 11:36:09 am PST #17303 of 28282
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's about tequila, right?
sj - Jan 04, 2012 11:36:54 am PST #17304 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Yay! That list looks excellent. Good luck with it.
Kate P. - Jan 04, 2012 11:40:58 am PST #17305 of 28282
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Good-looking list, megan! I'm reading The Sense of an Ending right now and it's marvelous (and so quick!).
Consuela - Jan 04, 2012 11:41:02 am PST #17306 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's about tequila, right
hah! It's a modernist fantasy; the Devil is a character, IIRC.