Used copy for $8.

Amy, I loved The Fault In Our Stars. Both Hazel and Augustus work for me because real teens, especially the bookish ones do sound like that. Not always perfectly witty, but yes, they do have that vocab. And Van Houten. That poor man.

thanks David!

So has anyone here read Jo Walton's Among Others? It got a lot of press when it first came out last year, and was nominated for a number of awards, although I don't know if it won any.

I would expect that, of Buffistas, it would resonate pretty strongly with Ginger and Hecubus--it certainly did for me, although my days of reading absolutely everything in SF/F are long past. But since Walton is almost exactly my age, the books Mori is reading are, many of them, the books I was reading at that age--Heinlein, Clarke, LeGuin, Henderson, Engdahl, McCaffrey, Clement, Cherryh...

Sox, it's in an ebook collection called "The World-Thinker and Other Stories." [link] However, it seems to only be available to UK, Ireland and Australian customers.

Consuela, I haven't read it yet, but those are the authors I was reading when I was reading absolutely everything in SF.

It's an interesting read, Ginger, and I suspect it resonates very strongly for those of us who grew up without the internet--among other things (heh), it's very much about the search for community.

I could say a few critical things about Mori's inability to function with the "mundane" world (although she never calls it that), but she's clearly broken in several ways, and really the impressive thing is that she's able to deal at all, given her circumstances.

So has anyone here read Jo Walton's Among Others?

Me me me. I love this book.

Both Hazel and Augustus work for me because real teens, especially the bookish ones do sound like that. Not always perfectly witty, but yes, they do have that vocab.

I think because Isaac was also incredibly well-spoken and witty, I wanted to sort of whisper in Green's ear, "All cancer kids are not going to be geniuses, buddy," but like I said, I didn't care too much because the emotional aspect of the book was so true.

We had our book club meeting this afternoon, and a lot of them are John Green fans, but they all said that his characters tend to be super smart and funny.

Dumb line that was one of my favorites: "There were some condomy problems I really didn't get to see." I can picture it perfectly.

Also the video game with Isaac toward the end: "Hump the moist cave wall." I was still crying from the previous scene, and read that and was cracking up.

Consuela - one of the things I love about Among Others is how well Walton handles the format, and the boundaries of private thoughts. Don't mind me, I'm over here bouncing at the thought of having people to discuss it with.

I did keep a notebook handy. Quite a long 'to-read' list came out of that experience.

Mark Reads The Princess Bride.

He's seen the movie, but he's never read the book. And I strongly suspect he's trolling re: Morgenstern, but I love the idea of his reviewing the book as if it truly were an abridgment. If anything, we are having fun in the comments.