Spike ,'Sleeper'
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."
I had no idea Robert Silverberg had had a thriving vintage sleaze career (NSFW).
I did but Kayo Books focuses on paperback original collectables so they have little zines on the subject. He's not the only science fiction writer that had a side line in porn, either.
Sumi, THANK YOU! I keep meaning to say thank you for pointing out the Deals of the Day, because I would never remember to even check, and I think at least a third of the paid content on my Fire is stuff you've pointed out.
Well, I get these dangerous email alerts from Amazon. . . $.99 here, $1.99 there . . .
Sumi, I signed up for those e-mails last night, because I remembered you said you got an e-mail alert from Amazon with the daily deal.
I swear I found out about those emails from somebody here!
In the UK, Harper Collins Voyager is publishing an enhanced e-book of A Game of Thrones.
There is a video showing some of the enhancements at the link.
BTW, a friend in the UK who is also a GRRM fan is going to investigate the interactive GoT and report back.
ION - check out this list of beautiful bookstores.
Free ebook anthology from Tor. I'll be picking up a Nook copy on the 14th.
Ooh, thanks! That sounds good and free, the kind of thing that's nice to have on my Kindle when I just want something short to read.
I'm writing about Joris Karl Huysmans for HiLobrow. He's a French writer most famous for A Rebours (Against the Grain) which is generally considered to be the ultimate decadent/aesthete novel. It was Oscar Wilde's favorite and the book which is the "wicked French book" which leads Dorian Gray into his life of debauchery.
Anyway, it's a really interesting read, but it's making me laugh too because it has sentences which would work equally well as Smiths lyrics, or Edward Gorey captions:
His childhood had been beset with perils. Threatened with scrofulous affections, worn out with persistent attacks of fever, he had nevertheless successfully weathered the breakers of puberty, after which critical period his nerves had recovered the mastery, vanquished the languors and depressions of chlorosis and permitted the constitution to reach its full and complete development. The mother, a tall, silent, white-faced woman, died of general debility; then the father succumbed to a vague and mysterious malady.
She died of general debility! He succumbed to a vague and mysterious malady! He vanquished the languors!