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.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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."
sumi - Feb 01, 2012 6:57:26 am PST #17724 of 28261
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2012 10:42:57 am PST #17725 of 28261
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Free ebook anthology from Tor. I'll be picking up a Nook copy on the 14th.
Polter-Cow - Feb 01, 2012 10:46:44 am PST #17726 of 28261
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Consuela - Feb 03, 2012 8:44:06 am PST #17727 of 28261
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
DavidS - Feb 04, 2012 9:37:12 am PST #17728 of 28261
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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!
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 04, 2012 9:45:23 am PST #17729 of 28261
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ah, I have that book, though it was sufficiently meandering that I never made it all the way through.
DavidS - Feb 04, 2012 9:56:02 am PST #17730 of 28261
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
though it was sufficiently meandering that I never made it all the way through.
It does warn you up front: "a novel without a plot."
Aims - Feb 05, 2012 9:09:30 am PST #17731 of 28261
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok. Watching Joe read "The Hunger Games" series is HIGHLARIOUS. Like Mark Reads but in 3D.
Toddson - Feb 06, 2012 9:45:03 am PST #17732 of 28261
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
With on-the-spot snarking.
megan walker - Feb 06, 2012 1:01:26 pm PST #17733 of 28261
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
For those interested, the most recent episode of The Readers podcast (which is awesome in general) is on Victorian Lit. The beginning of the interview with Essie Fox, author of The Somnambulist, has some echoing issues but they get resolved eventually.