I don't really know anything about this book besides that there is something wicked and it is coming this way.
flails excitedly at you but tries not to say anything
Who's the reader for the audiobook?
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'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."
Atropa - Aug 19, 2012 6:46:44 pm PDT #19510 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Polter-Cow - Aug 19, 2012 6:47:54 pm PDT #19511 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Paul Hecht.
(Also, I do know from a glance at the blurb that the something wicked is a carnival. But that's all I know.)
Atropa - Aug 19, 2012 7:01:11 pm PDT #19512 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You'll have to let me know what you think of his voice. I haven't heard that recording.
Atropa - Aug 19, 2012 7:02:36 pm PDT #19513 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(I wonder how difficult it would be to set my dad up with the equipment to record him reading Something Wicked This Way Comes ? Because that's the audio version I really want.)
Strix - Aug 19, 2012 8:06:47 pm PDT #19514 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(Jilli, a free download of Audacity and a cheap headphone with a microphone is all you need for recording.)
Jesse - Aug 20, 2012 3:06:01 am PDT #19515 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anyone else read A Visit from the Goon Squad? What'd you think?
I liked it a lot. I don't know what I had been expecting, but it wasn't that.
Sue - Aug 20, 2012 5:29:29 am PDT #19516 of 28343
hip deep in pie
Anyone else read A Visit from the Goon Squad? What'd you think?
Parts of it engaged me, and parts of it didn't. At times, I disliked a section so much I put it down for a month or so. I really didn't like the ending.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2012 7:08:02 am PDT #19517 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't know what I had been expecting, but it wasn't that.
Yeah, it was certainly something different. I think I was expecting something different and it took me a while to warm up to what it was doing.
Parts of it engaged me, and parts of it didn't.
Basically.
I really didn't like the ending.
I did like that it came back around to the beginning, but a lot of the sci-fi was silly.
I feel like it's a book that maybe in a few years I'll want to try again in print because it should appeal to me more.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2012 12:55:23 pm PDT #19518 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stumbled onto the Saving The Pearls: Defending Eden facebook page quite by accident (I want to say "on accident" just because I associate that with really bad things), but I never thought it would be much more than a random internet blowup.
Apparently the first chapter of the book was posted on and defended by Weird Tales magazine, and foofurrah ensued. Including the resignation of the senior contributing editor. IO9 is hearteningly one-sided about the issue: [link]
At least for now.
Amy - Aug 20, 2012 1:34:22 pm PDT #19519 of 28343
Because books.
The new guy in charge sounds like a real prize.
I wish some authors would realize there's sometimes a valid reason no one will publish their work.