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."


Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2012 10:45:54 am PST #17466 of 28266
brillig

Forgotten Beasts of Eld is one of my most favorite books of all time. That's by McKinley. The Riddle-Master of Hed series was a disappointment to me when I first read it, but when I read it five years later it was immensely satisfying. I had to grow up to appreciate the ending.

re: Vokosigan A Civil Campaign is even funnier after having read most of the previous books, so you understand the underpinnings of the assumptions going on. And Cordelia is one of the most magnificent characters ever. She is every bit the match to Miles' Dad and is rightfully respected.


Jesse - Jan 18, 2012 10:46:51 am PST #17467 of 28266
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't tend to read a ton of SF/F, but love me some Vorkosigans.


meara - Jan 18, 2012 11:02:36 am PST #17468 of 28266

I am definitely a fan of the Chalion books, and being a romance-lover, adored the Cordelia books more than the Miles ones in the Vorkosigan-verse. But I liked the Miles ones too. I am not, however, a big fan of the Sharing Knife ones. I read the first two or three and haven't bothered to seek out if there are more by now.

There's two - The Blue Sword, which she wrote first, and The Hero and the Crown, which is about the mythology in The Blue Sword and is set centuries before it.

Total love, yes!


Consuela - Jan 18, 2012 11:18:53 am PST #17469 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I love McKinley's older stuff, but didn't much like Spindle's End, and strongly disliked Dragonhaven. I'm a bit 'eh' on Sunshine: I'm bored with vampires.

Forgotten Beasts of Eld is one of my most favorite books of all time. That's by McKinley. The Riddle-Master of Hed series was a disappointment to me when I first read it, but when I read it five years later it was immensely satisfying. I had to grow up to appreciate the ending.

Actually, that's Patricia McKillip, who is by many objective measures a far better writer than McKinley. Their styles aren't very similar: McKillip is far more poetic, and she's never gone back to the fairly-mainstream storytelling she did in the Riddlemaster sequence.

If I had to choose, I'd take McKillip over McKinley, even though I have great fondness for the Damar novels.


Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2012 11:48:32 am PST #17470 of 28266
brillig

Oh, duh, you're reight, the Mc names messed me up. And the cat in my arms is screwng up my typing.


Atropa - Jan 18, 2012 12:08:36 pm PST #17471 of 28266
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I loved Sunshine and wish she'd write another book in that world.

My Dad is now reading Bujold, and has informed me that I Will Be Reading Them Soon. I think he likes them.


Toddson - Jan 18, 2012 12:19:49 pm PST #17472 of 28266
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I want a book of Sunshine's recipes. I was practically drooling over the descriptions.


Consuela - Jan 18, 2012 12:25:28 pm PST #17473 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I think he likes them.

They do have a broad appeal: they're very character-based, but there is also smart sciencey world-building, tricky politics, and exciting battle sequences. And moral dilemmas.


Toddson - Jan 18, 2012 12:27:09 pm PST #17474 of 28266
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

And butter bugs.


Consuela - Jan 18, 2012 12:28:34 pm PST #17475 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I admit that I don't like the butter bugs much. And A Civil Campaign hits my embarrassment squick pretty badly; it's far from my favorite.