it's a pretty amazing read
Isn't it? I thought the ending was a bit too fast, and hard to follow, but the world-building, concepts, and characterization was so good. I will be reading more by her.
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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."
Consuela - Jan 24, 2012 11:29:17 am PST #17577 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Polter-Cow - Jan 24, 2012 11:31:31 am PST #17578 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I wanted to like it more than I did, but it was good.
Consuela - Jan 24, 2012 11:48:54 am PST #17579 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I want to know more about the Ontological Shift. What does the animaling mean? What are the parameters of that? But she never really got into it.
BTW, there were a couple of Zoo City stories in Yuletide this year, one of them talking about the Ontological Shift. It was pretty cool, although too short.
Polter-Cow - Jan 24, 2012 11:53:11 am PST #17580 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I want to know more about the Ontological Shift. What does the animaling mean? What are the parameters of that? But she never really got into it.
I know!! I was really hoping for more worldbuilding since the idea was so interesting.
hippocampus - Jan 24, 2012 1:14:49 pm PST #17581 of 28261
not your mom's socks.
I want to know more about the Ontological Shift. What does the animaling mean? What are the parameters of that? But she never really got into it
yes. This.
I hope we'll see more from her on the subject.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 24, 2012 1:21:19 pm PST #17582 of 28261
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wait- do they become animals or have to carry around the animal?
Polter-Cow - Jan 24, 2012 1:22:12 pm PST #17583 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The latter.
hippocampus - Jan 24, 2012 1:28:15 pm PST #17584 of 28261
not your mom's socks.
There's a sense in one particular scene - at the hospital, with her brother, that it's not the act, it's the guilt that triggers it . That could actually be a very deft handling of a shift. Er, as long as I'm reading the author's intent correctly and not the just rejiggerings of one of her readers.
Connie Neil - Jan 25, 2012 7:13:41 am PST #17585 of 28261
brillig
Marks got "The Fighting Uruk-Hai" chapter up, and he immediately focused on the description of the Orks as "Mongol-type." He went into this speech about the horrible racism and how he's just going to have to forgive Tolkien for basing his evil race on Asians. For a change, most of the comments seem to be challenging his interpretation instead of just agreeing with it. I suspect a different pool of commenters than those who are following Mark Watches.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2012 7:29:38 am PST #17586 of 28261
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, except I do think Tolkien does indulge in a lot of race essentialism in LotR. Anybody invested in the Aryan ideal would recognize it in all that talk about the True Race of Men/Númenórean stuff. And it's not just the Orcs he describes in terms of the savage other. All of those oliphaunt riders are from the East: swarthy, exotic etc.