I am having a hard time putting Code Name Verity down (this is also Amy's doing). But tonight I am reading Glass Heart, because it just arrived!
She ain't movin'. Serenity's not movin'.
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
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."
hippocampus - Sep 25, 2012 2:15:36 pm PDT #19803 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2012 2:28:10 pm PDT #19804 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Given what I had heard, I expected ASOIAF to be some huge rapefest, but, thankfully, it is not, at least in the first three books. That is, there is a fair amount of rape in the world, present and past, but there aren't a lot of rape scenes. It's mostly just talked about.
I'm not so into Huge Sweeping Fantasy, so I wasn't sure, despite the love expressed here.
I was the same until I got hooked.
Jessica - Sep 25, 2012 2:52:05 pm PDT #19805 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Meh, I disagree pretty strongly with that reading of ASOIAF. But I guess that makes me one of those stupid fans that just can't listen or something.
There are MANY valid criticisms to make about GRRM (Orientalism out the wazoo is only the most obvious), but I hardly think it's useful to simply list every bad thing that happens to all the female characters, willfully misreading at least half of them, and then point and say SEE? SEXISM!
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2012 3:07:00 pm PDT #19806 of 28344
brillig
It's not like bad things happening to women isn't historically factual.
Jessica - Sep 25, 2012 3:18:30 pm PDT #19807 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think there are valid cases to be made that GRRM's portrayal of women is frequently sexist. I think most of the examples in this post are chosen not because they're good arguments but because they're easy rants. (And I'm not sure it's ever helpful to frame an argument as "I could make a good argument, but since you won't listen anyway, here's a really shitty argument with lots of capslock instead." Unless the real goal is click-baiting, in which case well done.)
DavidS - Sep 25, 2012 4:33:51 pm PDT #19808 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think there are valid cases to be made that GRRM's portrayal of women is frequently sexist.
Outline a few for me? That are better than her complaints.
Not a challenge just curious where you'd make the distinction.
sumi - Sep 26, 2012 4:48:58 am PDT #19809 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Patricia C. Wrede's The Raven Ring is a Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99.
Consuela - Sep 26, 2012 7:04:55 am PDT #19810 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So the Gentlement Bastards sequence finally has a publication date for the next volume: The Republic of Thieves drops on September 3, 2013, and it's finally going to introduce Sabetha. About damn time, I have to say. [link]
Jessica - Sep 26, 2012 1:29:41 pm PDT #19811 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Outline a few for me? That are better than her complaints.
Sorry, I didn't see this before we left for London! And now I'm too exhausted from 12 hours of travel to think straight. But I'll try to think of something coherent to say when I've had some sleep.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2012 1:36:45 pm PDT #19812 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sorry, I didn't see this before we left for London!
Oh, no - not that excuse again!
Btw, we got your package for Matilda today. Thanks! Good timing.