Just finished Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects. Can't remember if the rec was from here or EW, maybe both. Not at all what I was expecting. Good, very evocative. Imagery still lingering with me. Not sure why I was expecting straight-up murder mystery, but definitely more layers than I was expecting.
Don't let the space bugs bite!
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
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."
EpicTangent - Jul 26, 2012 8:34:54 am PDT #19444 of 28343
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2012 8:41:32 am PDT #19445 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I dug it too, Epic.
EpicTangent - Jul 26, 2012 9:17:21 am PDT #19446 of 28343
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Yes! You said much more coherently what I felt about the book!
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2012 9:56:47 am PDT #19447 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Images created using a commercially available law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters.
Pretty cool! And here's an article.
"I made an honest effort to do a Cormac McCarthy character," Davis says, 'but you just can't work with 'Man. Medium. Two eyes.'"
Jesse - Jul 26, 2012 10:17:47 am PDT #19448 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
How is Ma's dialogue formatted in the book? Because there don't seem to be dialogue tags; she just speaks sometimes.
I think it's just regular, but don't actually remember. Oh, you can Look Inside on Amazon. Not sure if this link will work: [link]
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2012 10:23:28 am PDT #19449 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, huh! Yeah, it's just regular, they just decided to get different actors for the characters. Neat.
EpicTangent - Jul 26, 2012 3:52:26 pm PDT #19450 of 28343
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Notes on whatsisface from Fifty Shades of Grey:
Tags: Fifty Shades of Grey, Composite of a character from a book that was once fan fiction about a film adapted from a book, Too meta?,
Heh.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 27, 2012 12:41:59 pm PDT #19451 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just finished the Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead book we wee talking about earlier. I wasn' really into it at first, and I stopped reading and read three other books. Then it was all I has left on the kindle on my bus ride so I started back up and it was REALLY good. It was almost magical realism meets detective novel. I just has one thing that I am being overly literal about and so I am confused. The man who was saving th parrots was only symbolically Vic Willing, Right? I didn't quite get it
chrismg - Jul 28, 2012 8:30:22 am PDT #19452 of 28343
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I checked a book out called Masters of the Planet: The Search for our Human Origins.
The first blurb is by Jean Auel.
Polgara - Jul 29, 2012 2:05:03 pm PDT #19453 of 28343
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Just finished Shadow of Night (second book after A Discovery of Witches) and I loved it muchly. Now I'm sad that I'll have to wait forever for book three.
I can totally see why some of you don't like her writing, though--the pace is definitely glacial.