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.
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'Serenity'
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."
Jesse - Aug 20, 2012 3:06:01 am PDT #19515 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2012 2:13:23 pm PDT #19520 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, just as not all self-published books are pathetic wanking basement dwellers, YOU, INEPT RACIST WRITER should be rejected by even the people just running a printing mill. You are a blight on humanity.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2012 5:34:18 pm PDT #19521 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So this Ray Bradbury guy knows how to write words good.
Connie Neil - Aug 20, 2012 5:35:25 pm PDT #19522 of 28343
brillig
Yeah, he's turned out a few decent pieces.
Consuela - Aug 20, 2012 5:50:25 pm PDT #19523 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So this Ray Bradbury guy knows how to write words good
Just a bit, yes. Something Wicked This Way Comes is like someone getting drunk on words.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2012 6:31:30 pm PDT #19524 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's so rife with imagery! Basically every sentence is a brilliant metaphor. It makes me want to write except I would suck.