Has anyone read Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, by Matt Ruff? I loved Bad Monkeys, so I'm going to a signing tonight to buy it for him to sign, but I think that book also looks like something I would dig, since I love stories about identity.
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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."
Polter-Cow - Mar 06, 2012 1:39:12 pm PST #18139 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Consuela - Mar 06, 2012 2:00:00 pm PST #18140 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Has anyone read Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, by Matt Ruff?
Yes, although my copy was missing 50 pages in the middle, which was a bit of a problem. I really like Matt Ruff--he writes something strikingly different every time.
STHIO won the Tiptree Prize, but don't ask why. Just read it. It's not much like Bad Monkeys, though.
I suspect you'd like Sewer, Gas and Electric as well.
Polter-Cow - Mar 06, 2012 2:03:05 pm PST #18141 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That one just looks completely bizarre and wacky, but I might like it. I'm really interested in the premise of STHIO, and the reviews seem to indicate that the execution is strong. I do love narrators, unreliable or otherwise, and this book apparently has lots of 'em!
DebetEsse - Mar 06, 2012 3:58:49 pm PST #18142 of 28282
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Per his Twitter, it looks like Mark just finished RotK.
Just wanted to share that with people for whom it would be reasonably meaningful.
Pix - Mar 06, 2012 5:13:40 pm PST #18143 of 28282
The status is NOT quo.
Polter, his book Fool on the Hill is on my top 5 list. It was my favorite book all through college.
Consuela - Mar 06, 2012 5:45:17 pm PST #18144 of 28282
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It was my favorite book all through college.
I spent my first 3 semesters at Cornell, and would have graduated the year before Ruff--we knew some of the same people. So yeah, when I read Fool, a couple years after college, it was enormously moving. Bit of a college fantasy.
Kat - Mar 06, 2012 6:18:20 pm PST #18145 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Best overheard on NPR today: "Dystopia is the new vampire for sure."
Burrell - Mar 06, 2012 6:54:48 pm PST #18146 of 28282
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So now dystopia comes in Sparkly along with the more traditional Dark?
Polter-Cow - Mar 06, 2012 7:44:48 pm PST #18147 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I checked Dog-Eared Books to see what they had, and, as luck would have it, the only Ruff they had was, indeed, Set This House in Order. As if that weren't enough, it appeared to have been originally bought at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle, which is where Matt Ruff lives! Also a bookstore I am fond of because I spent time there with Buffistas and discovered The Name of This Book Is Secret.
The reading was fun. His new book, The Mirage, sounds intriguing.
Atropa - Mar 06, 2012 7:57:49 pm PST #18148 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
So now dystopia comes in Sparkly along with the more traditional Dark?
Hee! Burrell, may I please tag this?