I'll have to see if I can get the first on through inter library loan.
It's got your approval so that's a huge plus.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'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."
askye - Nov 10, 2012 3:19:17 pm PST #20080 of 28344
Thrive to spite them
Gris - Nov 10, 2012 3:47:44 pm PST #20081 of 28344
Hey. New board.
Adding it to my Nashville Public Library ebook cart right now. Thanks, Jilli!
Summary of what I've read recently in case anybody wants to talk about any of them (also, I should probably update my Goodreads account...)
An Abundance of Katherines and Will Grayson, Will Grayson, both by John Green. Amazing.
Shadow of Night, after finally reading A Discovery of Witches all the way through on the third try.
Currently working on Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. Good! I like that I like and dislike parts of every single character (well, except one, but we see her through the eyes of the man in love with her, so that makes sense).
Volans - Nov 11, 2012 7:42:32 am PST #20082 of 28344
move out and draw fire
I'm reading Friday by Heinlein. I last read it when it came out, when I was 13. I remember really liking it; now it's on the margins of getting the "thrown across the room" tag.
What's kind of interesting, when I force myself to look past the writing style, word choice, gender issues, etc., is how many of what I think of as the basic SF tropes are in this one book.
Multinational corporations as more powerful nations? check. A restructured United States? Check. Post-oil/post environmental crises? Check. Overpopulation? Check. Designer organisms? Check. Professional sex training? Check.
The Internet exists in this story, in a pretty reasonable facsimile of what it was pre-WWW. Maybe that's why the Internet was so non-surprising to me. He even gets at Big Data analysis and online education options.
I'm still waiting for professional sex coaches though.
Typo Boy - Nov 11, 2012 7:48:58 am PST #20083 of 28344
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In fairness to Heinlein wasn't he suffering mini-strokes at the time he wrote this?
Connie Neil - Nov 11, 2012 7:50:00 am PST #20084 of 28344
brillig
I was starting something about religion, then realized I was remembering "Job", not "Friday."
Tom Scola - Nov 11, 2012 7:55:45 am PST #20085 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise (1979), not only talks about the Internet, he describes a crowd-sourced Wikipedia, complete with its accuracy issues.
Volans - Nov 11, 2012 8:12:42 am PST #20086 of 28344
move out and draw fire
Connie, religion's in here too, just not as central. The interesting-to-me part is that he seems happy and comfortable with Scientologists, but really viciously down on Christians.
wasn't he suffering mini-strokes at the time he wrote this?
this would explain so much about the plot, structure, and pacing.
Amy - Nov 11, 2012 12:10:05 pm PST #20087 of 28344
Because books.
Anyone looking for free nonfiction to read should check this out. Long pieces by Susan Orlean and Tom Wolfe.
Kat - Nov 12, 2012 2:59:48 pm PST #20088 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Chris Ware's Building Stories arrived in the mail on Saturday. So amazing. Anyone else looked at it?
hippocampus - Nov 13, 2012 4:45:36 am PST #20089 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Interview with Steven Brust - [link] (xpost with gww)